Obviously I wouldn't remain totally unchanged, but I would have changed in different ways. I'm with the last poster - Tolkien did get me more interested in languages and alphabets (I had been interested before, but the sheer scope of what he did made me realize how much great linguistic stuff there was out there). And it just got me very interested in mythology and legendry and so forth...read a lot of histories and mythologies and so forth to see what he was building off of. It gave me a much richer sense of the world's history and how much power a legend or a myth can have...sigh. Sorry, hope that didn't come off sounding too pretentious. Bottom line, they're great stories, Middle-Earth is a vivid and wonderful world, and they're the best places out there to escape to [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img].
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Father, dear Father, if you see fit, We'll send my love to college for one year yet
Tie blue ribbons all about his head, To let the ladies know that he's married.
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