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Why do I like Tolkien, what can I say? Maybe a quote from Bob the Tomato(VeggieTales) may help. "I laughed. I cried. It moved me." [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

I have read many of the old classics, "The Illiad", "The Oddessy", "The Aneid", "Beowulf", Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", The Shakespherian plays, "The Legends of Camalot and King Authur" and many other classics from World Lit, especially the early British Lit. Lord of the Rings is in this class of writings. It will stand up in the midst of the writings of old and hold its own.

No other story (myth or lore) has such a detailed geneology and has been followed by so many, except for the Authurian Legend. I do not include Christianity, for I do not consider it to be myth or lore.