[Ashton]

One thing I really see differently since I read the Books is war. I really never Imagined what it is like and I didn't realize that people were dying or getting wounded, people that had their own lives and families. I have found that war affects everybody, no matter who you are and where you live. Tolkien really puts this element of war into his books.

I also see nature differently. Whenever I go into a forest I think of all the things that Tolkien portrayed in Fangorn and Lothlórien Forests. I think that maybe trees do have a life of their own and they care when something happens to the Forest around them. I have actually gotten involved in trying to preserve forests and wilderness because of Tolkeins insights.