《年 • 初二》 The Lord of the Rings is the first fantasy series I read in my life during my second grade of primary school. I remembered I was extremely attracted to the maps and illustrations in the novel; also, the beautiful phrases in Traditional Chinese translated by the translator: that was when I've fallen in love with writings and the dark academia aesthetics. In 2016, I started to read the original version in English. I think that was when I really got to know Tolkien. It was like reading it for the first time. I finally stepping into the true Middle Earth, travelling from Hobbiton to Mount Doom. This year, I found a well-designed cover of the Lord of the Rings in a bookstore in Paris, and the French translation with the same design besides it. Maybe, it's time to challenge myself to read it in French. / 奧蘭多布魯的精靈的確既迷人又帥，讓人忍不住讓哥哥買了兩大張海報在小六時入贅劉家當第一任夫婿。 但只愛上電影裡的臉蛋是沒辦法成為讓我愛上魔戒15多年的原因。 有了個大了四歲的老哥，提早接觸青少年文學其實也不那麼奇怪。小學二年級拿起魔戒來讀，是人生第一次認識奇幻文學。記得當時被書中的地圖、插畫，還有朱學恆恰倒好處的詞藻深深吸引著。從那時候開始我喜歡上了故事寫作與dark academia 美學。 2016年，開始慢慢讀了托爾金字字句句寫下的原文版。讀了原文感覺就好像第一次讀了魔戒一樣，才從新認識了托爾金、掉入中土大陸、從夏爾跋涉到歐洛都因，俯視末日火山的谷底。 今年在法國的書店發現了一本設計精美的版本，而隔壁便放著相同設計的法文版。想想，或許該是時侯挑戰一個新的語言了。 #nereidmurmurinparis #LNYredchallenge #darkacademiabooks #fantasyliterature