Maybe that's part of why the books generated such a response. For them to be so popular that thousands of people will willingly sit outside a bookstore til midnight just to be the first ones to get and read the books does speak of an obsession that we will never have a chance to see with LotR. I don't believe that LotR was popular enough when released to warrant this kind of attention so there would be less of a reason for people to feel threatened by it.
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