[Meela]

I love the tale of Aragorn and Arwen, particularly relating to Aragorn and Gilraen. I cried a good deal.

I'm rather taken with the section on the Stewards, naturally. And being fascinated by family trees and lines of Kings, anything Gondorian, Numenorean, or Rohirric along those lines will catch my eye.

I have a borderline addiction to the chronologies.

I recently developed a taste for the language section. I frequently spend the evening huddled over the guide to pronunciation, particularly of the vowels.

I have one particular favourite line in the entire Appendix:

"It was heard after that Master Meriadoc came to Edoras and was with King Eomer before he died in that Autumn. Then he and Thain Peregrin went to Gondor and passed what short years were left to them in that realm, until they died and were laid to rest in Rath Dinen among the great of Gondor."

It sets me off into floods of tears. I don't know what it is about Eomer dying in Autumn, but it's a beautiful line and it gives me such a heavy feeling of nostalgia or something similar. I suppose Autumn, being a time of fading, seems the right time to die, and it just makes me sad.