{"id":3910,"date":"2016-06-23T16:03:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T10:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3910"},"modified":"2016-06-23T16:03:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T10:33:12","slug":"tolkien-quarter-life-crisis-millennial-middle-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=3910","title":{"rendered":"Not All Those Who Wander are Lost: Tolkien\u2019s Tonic for the Millennial Quarter-Life Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"container page-content\"><p><span class=\"dropcap\">H<\/span><\/p><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">appy New Year! But New Year\u2019s is rarely a very happy time, is it? I for one find the self-congratulatory posts on social media, where people show off their achievements from the last 365 days and set lofty targets for the next 365 to be insufferable. After all, I am just a writer in my mid-20s, and people taking <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/outdoors\/travel-tourists-india-hills\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vacations<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I can\u2019t afford and scoring gigs I wish I had scored can be quite the downer.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With so many triggers, it\u2019s all too easy to write yourself off. The social media barrage reminds me that I\u2019m still trying to save a little bit of my pay cheque at the end of the month while my classmate gets a book deal with an international publishing house. Perhaps I\u2019ve lost the race. I mean, if you haven\u2019t made it to where you want to be in life <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/birthday-stress-bday-cry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by 25<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, will it ever happen for you? It gets even worse when you\u2019re in a creative field, and the good work of your peers causes you to doubt your own ability in a crippling case of Impostor Syndrome. Maybe it\u2019s an age-related issue. An essay in<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2018\/dec\/30\/me-and-my-quarter-life-crisis-a-millennial-asks-what-went-wrong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Guardian<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> cites a LinkedIn study that states 72 per cent of millennials feel as if they are in the throes of a quarter-life crisis \u2013 a period of overwhelming stress brought on by mounting adult responsibilities and unfavourably comparing your life to the flawless snapshots on your Instagram feed.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When faced with a crisis, some people turn to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/choosing-my-religion-hindu-muslim-christianity-atheist-agnostic-hindutva-islam-rss-swami-vivekananda-anti-hindu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">religion<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and seek divine deliverance from their problems. I\u2019m not religious, but I do have idols, and it\u2019s to them whom I turn to when I feel adrift. As a writer, a lot of those idols are authors far better at their craft than I will ever be, and out of the entire pantheon, JRR Tolkien is the one who rules them all.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I discovered Tolkien 18 years ago, in a crowded bookshop during a family trip to Mahabaleshwar, a hill station near Mumbai, and since then, the road has gone ever on and on. I spent the entire holiday perched on a swing, trying to devour the nearly 1,200-page copy of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/lotr-vs-got-amazon-tv-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lord of the Rings<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Next I was hooked on to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hobbit<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, borrowed from my school library, which was followed by <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Silmarillion<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, purchased at a sale for old books in Churchgate. When we returned to Mahabaleshwar in 2007, some seven years after I had bought <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LotR<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, I went to the same bookstore to pick up a copy of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Children of Hurin<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, then a newly released addition to Tolkien\u2019s legendarium.<\/span>\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>Tolkien\u2019s work is a Smaug-worthy treasure hoard of aphorisms, which remain deeply relevant to readers today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was early on during my Tolkien obsession that I knew I wanted to be a writer. Not just any writer, but a storyteller in the tradition of Tolkien himself. With all of its mythological connotations and surreal tropes, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/stark-knight-rises\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fantasy genre<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is often derided as childish escapism, but in the words of Tolkien himself, \u201cFantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don\u2019t we consider it his duty to escape? If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we\u2019re partisans of liberty, then it\u2019s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!\u201d<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back then, as a fresh-faced teenager who thought he could conquer the world with a Word Doc, it was easy to believe that following my calling as a writer would be as easy as eating <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/grub\/french-toast-childrens-day-recipe-breakfast-chlidhood-memories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">second breakfast<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was for Merry and Pippin. That notion was as misguided as laughing at a live dragon. To quote Tolkien yet again, \u201cthe burned hand teaches best,\u201d and experience has shown me that turning dreams into reality is just as hard as simply walking into Mordor.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feeling lost or bereft of hope in your 20s is what is expected of us millennials, but that doesn\u2019t make it easier to deal with. When you\u2019re stuck in a soulless office job or scrounging a living from one low-paying freelance assignment to the next, all while feeling like your peers are racing past in you in achieving life milestones \u2013 appearing as panelists, giving <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/ted-talks-india-nayi-soch-tvs-intellectual-offering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TED Talks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, getting married \u2013\u00a0<\/span><span>you tend to spiral downward when reflecting on yourself. But as Gimli said at the Council of Elrond in <\/span><i><span>Fellowship<\/span><\/i><span>, \u201cFaithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.\u201d<\/span>\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>In an age of instant gratification, we forget that the seeds of creativity only blossom in the loam of patience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tolkien\u2019s work is a Smaug-worthy treasure hoard of aphorisms like these, which, even decades after he first penned them down, remain deeply relevant to readers today. Not just his work, but also the way he lived, speaks to those who feel like they\u2019ve lost their way. Though his legacy casts one of the longest shadows in literature, Tolkien\u2019s greatness was not a flash in the pan, or propelled by a prodigal rise to the top. It was the product of a lifetime of dedication spent honing his craft. He was in his 40s when <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hobbit <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was first published in 1937, and only released <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LotR <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">twelve years later, in 1949. He began writing much earlier, and continued to do so until his passing in 1972, and received most of his acclaim posthumously. His life was not like a perfectly curated <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/instagram-snapchat-india-jaipur-social-media-celebrity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instagram timeline<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 he served as a soldier in the trenches of WWI and afterwards, held a stereotypically \u201cboring day job\u201d as a professor. One of the greatest lessons that can be gleaned from Tolkien and his writings is the lesson of patience.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an age of instant gratification, we forget that the seeds of creativity only blossom in the loam of patience. Our lives might not be Insta-worthy all the time, and a quarter-life crisis can honestly feel like a bad time to be alive, but like Gandalf tells Frodo when they\u2019re trapped in the mines of Moria, \u201cAll we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.\u201d<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s okay to be adrift, that means you\u2019re going with the flow. It\u2019s okay to feel like you haven\u2019t fulfilled your potential, because that means you know you\u2019re capable of doing more. I would offer more words of encouragement, but as always, Tolkien said it far better than I ever could, a long time ago.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNot all those who wander are lost.\u201d<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When faced with a crisis, some people turn to religion and seek divine deliverance from their problems. 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