One can only be infatuated to a point. My niece is a fourteen year old young woman. I got her into Tolkien but it was a horrific idea. She gets straight A’s at school and is very intelligent (she read the Silm at the age of eight). The dilemma is she has no friends, at break she sits reading a Tolkien book. She gets home does her homework and she does not come out of her room she is too busy reading. My sister does not even know her own daughter anymore. She is anorexic at the moment due to the fact that she forgets to eat (????). The obsession is going way over board, I never see her neither does her mom or dad only when she gets a drink or something. She knows all of the songs (off by heart) from LotR. Yes be obsessed but please don’t be OBSESSED!
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