Hmm...for me I think it was that this world I was reading about I understood, and felt it would understand me. (if that makes sense) It was real, meainging it was not all good or all bad, it was both, like life. Also, I REALLY related to Frodo's character, and now as I read the book as an adult, I feel that even more so. There is something about it that just makes me feel at home, and no matter how many times I read it or see it or think about it, it draws me in, whether from the Magic of the story or the beloved written words I can't say. That and I always seem to think of it in difficult times. If I don't, it finds me. The movie came out and all was good, but then my life fell apart and low and behold, I felt the strong desire to read the book again and so I am and it is helping me in two ways as it has so many times in the past:
1. It gives me a place to escape to where life is as I would want it to be (for the everyday people who live there)
2. It gives me something to relate to, to hold on to to know I'm not alone.
That prolly sounds really corny, but that's the truth of it, so...lol.
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"So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
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