Me too... but you know what else? I started creating a world of my own about 10 years ago... I got maps and notebooks and notebooks filled with history and stuff... and the actual "novel" I'm writting which takes place in it hasn't gotten very far. I'm only on chapter 3 or something... because everytime I write something in the novel it somehow leads back to all my notes and I start adding stuff to them and elaborating. I can understand how he has so much unfinished stuff and so few finished works. Even The Silmarillion was something he never planned to publish. It's a compelation of all the revisions of middle earths history and lore which Christopher put together to try to reflect it best.
Tolkien is so amazing... he was such an amazing person as well as such a creative genius.
He's pretty much ruined fantasy for me as nothing seems to compare to his work. :rolly2:
And I know what you mean about the name Arwen... my husband and I are actually considering naming one of our children Arwen... if we ever have a girl. It's such a beautiful name. I had a dward hamster named Frodo too.
