J. R. R. Tolkien

Today's topic is to write about a person we admire. I haven’t thought about it before so it’s been difficult for me to decide the one. So I am going with J.R.R Tolkien I guess. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in 1892 in South Africa but moved to England as a child. Tolkien was a devout Roman Catholic, an anti-communist and a nationalist; he even got to compare Stalin with the Dark Lord, one of the greatest evils of his novels. His work was inspired by British adventures histories, European mythology and Catholicism. Even when I don’t share his ideals I do admire his creativity. 

I got to knew him by watching the movie adaptation of Lord of the rings and fell in love with the world he created. He didn’t just write a novel, he  constructed more than three different languages and a whole lore and cartography for the world he created. Tolkien is one of the most renowned fantasy writers, but his work has been widely criticized. One of the most criticized thing about his work, with which I agree, is the lack of female protagonist characters. He has been dead since 1973, but if he were alive I would ask him about the inspiration behind his work and all the things he didn’t got the chance to write because of his death.

Human's Impact

I don’t think of myself as a green person but I do worry about the actual condition of our planet and all the damage we have done as specie along the years. I think we should try to make as little negative impact as possible while we live here. Sadly there is nothing we can do to repair the damage that has already been done but we can stop its progression. From this perspective there is a really good point in being green. I think that people in our society doesn't know or just don’t care. We live in the right now and don’t care much about others that might come after us, or the consequences that our actions as specie might bring to other species. 

As I said in the beginning I don’t consider myself as a green person but I tried to do things to reduce the impact. In my daily life I try to not to use plastic bags and to reuse anything that can be reuse, I don’t own or drive a car so I use public transportation and if I can walk to a place I’ll do it.  I haven’t joined or supported any eco-organization yet, I guess because I’m not really the kind of people that join to things at all if that makes any sense. I would like to do more things to reduce the impact of my life here and create conscience about this subject in the people around me; maybe if we all do that we could make some change

Two current obsessions and something I used to love

Hi. Today I´ll write about the series I’m into lately. The first one that comes to mind is The Office. I started to watch it because in my group therapy class the professor showed us the first episode to analyses the different forms the humor was use by the characters in it. It is really funny but also a bit uncomfortable, sometimes Steve Carrel’s character is so offensive and makes me think “is he really just doing or saying 

that?”

I am also trying to get into Hannibal again. This show had an amazing first season and a pretty good second one. I don’t know why but I couldn´t really get into the third season at the beginning of the year so I dropped and moved to other series I was most interested in. I heard it was canceled and the third one will be the last season so I thought I might as well finish it.

Finally, a series I started to watch recently and I´m really extited about is Heroes Reborn. This is a sequel to Heroes, a series from 2005 which I loved and had an amazing start, and then they somehow mess up and the plot goes all over the place. So now they return, with some kind of continuation of it, with the same creative team, a few of the old cast and a bunch of new faces so obviously I would start watching it again.

So that’s that. 

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