I love the story, but it's dependent on the world for its existence. You can't separate the two...the story without the world would nver have had the depth and mystery and epic feeling, the ability to remind us that our lives are just chapters in a larger story that began before our earliest ancestors were born and will never end. But the world without the story wouldn't have the same power to hypnotize and capture. Those that love Middle-Earth want to go there...
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