I think M-E will have a greater effect on people who havenothad the benefit of growing up w/ a 'tradition'. Wether religious, cultural or even artistic.
And by tradition I secifically am excluding america-driven western anti-culture.
JRRT seemed so aware and heartfeltedly wounded by the mechanization going on in society that LotR and co. is in many ways a reaction against it, in addition to being an affirmation of so many things.
So my point was that since I had [ and others I know] had such huge voids in their lives, the legendariuum, expressing truth as it does, can and for many has filled in a massive vacuum left by our decling culture.
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The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night exchanging lore & wisdom such as they still possessed that they should not fall back into the mean estate of those who never knew or indeed rebelled against the Light.
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