Lord of the Rings is not just a book to me (actually there's no such thing as 'just a book' to me). The stories Tolkien writes seems so real, that I can easily imagine being in Middle-Earth. I don't really know how to describe how real Tolkien's stories are to me, and since everyone here has given better explanations, I don't really have to either. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] The only books I've ever read that are as real to me as Tolkien's are Katherine Kerr's The Deverry Series. Even though I love those books, and they sometimes seem more real the LotR, it's just not Tolkien. I have no idea exactly what it is, but there's something about Tolkien's writings that makes it impossible for them to be 'just books'. I've bullied at least half a dozen people into reading the books after they declared their love for the movies, and all of them admits that it's more than just a book. Even my 12-year-old brother...
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"The ships hung in the air in much the same way as bricks don't"
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