My problem is that my attention span (not long on good days) moves from one thing to another, to another, to another… returning to the 1st interest, then to the 2nd… ad infinitum.

I love my Lord, my family, gardening, counted thread embroidery, reading, playing with clay, rug hooking, and gaming as in Massively Multiplayer Online Games (also called MMOG or simply MMO).

My favorite earthly author is J.R.R. Tolkien (isn’t that surprising given the number of articles I’ve written on him and/or his work). Tolkien was one of the world’s greatest etymologists and worked at Oxford. Quite simply he loved words and could put them together so beautifully as to make one see, feel, sense something… to make it real. I love him, I look forward to meeting him in the future as he was a believer too.

So quite naturally my favorite MMO is The Lord of the Rings Online (LoTRO). In 2007 when I began playing I thought it’d be a good chance for me to witness to others by putting Tolkien’s work into his perspective. I felt this was necessary due to the number of folks, particularly younger gamers, who see only the fantasy or role-playing and not the truths with which Tolkien was concerned. You see, Tolkien believed that truth could be expressed through myth.

I do all that I love individually going from one thing to the next… basically, I’m an obsessive – compulsive person… throwing myself whole-heartedly into things, limited to one at a time (two at best)… but I also get bored with one thing after awhile… so I change… plus my husband and I have both had medical problems this last year and we did a trip to Europe… all of which must be squeezed in… I look forward to retirement simply to be able to enjoy doing the myriad of activities I enjoy the most… ALL of the time.

In gaming I got rather bored… bottom line.. it was lonely… very few people played on the server I was on and the “groups” (aka guilds or kinships) with which I came in contact left me cold… after all, what did I have in common with them beyond the game? … not much, if anything… who knows… after some research I found Creations of the Light (CotL) a Christian group that enables me to play my favorite game with a group of people with whom I share a lot more than just a game….. so I’m off… not to see the wizard… but to be an elf or a hobbit or simply a woman… in Middle Earth…. to solve puzzles and save the virtual world….

Some links…
The kinship – Creations of the Light at http://lotrocotl.com/
The game – Lord of the Rings Online at http://www.lotro.com/
More about the game – Forums for LotRO at http://forums.lotro.com/