snowflake Challenge - Day 8

Day 8

In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


My fandom canon is the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, particularly the Lord of the Rings and related works. After reading these, no other fantasy novels even to0uch them. They do seem to be the baseline that most/many fantasy writers use. Tolkien built a language then a world to go with it. It is, at it's heart, a simple quest story but it becomes more than that. It is a world as vast and complex as the real world, peopled with characters as varied as the real world ones as well. It's just way more interesting because it is a world we would LOVE to live in.

IN the entire body of work, the story of Cirdan the Shipwright and Gandalf and the third Ring of Power is my favorite moment:
Appendix B (The Tale of Years), fourth paragraph under the heading The Third Age:

Throughout the Third Age the guardianship of the Three Rings was known only to those who possessed them. But at the end it became known that they had been held at first by the three greatest of the Eldar: Gil-Galad, Galadriel and Círdan. The ring of Gil-Galad was given by him to Elrond; but Círdan surrendered his to Mithrandir. For Círdan saw further and deeper than any other in Middle-earth, and he welcomed Mithrandir at the Grey Havens, knowing whence he came and whither he would return.
"Take this ring, Master," he said, "for your labours will be heavy; but it will support you in the weariness that you have taken upon yourself. For this is the Ring of Fire, and with it you may rekindle hearts in a world that grows chill. But as for me, my heart is with the Sea, and I will dwell by the grey shores until the last ship sails. I will await you."