Why does this story move so many people so?

[charly]

Lord of the Rings is just a part of me. It´s kinda hard to explain. I feel, sort of, in this book, Tolkien on side created a world I feel I know- really KNOW, like I´ve been there. On the other hand, the book is just so much everyday life, it suprises me every time. Think about it: you have Sam&Frodo, sharing the plain love of best friends. Gandalf, the ancient symbol of the "wise old man". Merry&Pippin, young and life-loving. Aragorn&Arwen, showing us how hard it can be to wait. Eowyn, hoping and dreaming, like we all do. And finally you have a journey. We journey every day, be it to school or Mount Doom, just a trip to the mall or the journey to the strands of Eldamar.
All I want to say: Middle Earth is not only Tolkien´s World, the world to were I dream myself away to. It is, also and maybe more than that, a mirror of our world. A mirror that shows us- through bent ways,yet astonishingly clear- a clear reflection of our lives.