why do you enjoy Tolkien

[Lush]

I love Tolkien because he hands each one of his readers "the keys to the kingdom" sort to speak, to a world that may never crumble, as long as we remember to pop in and visit it from time to time. Like Glenethor said on one completely unrelated thread, "I like being in Middle Earth."
And as Nabokov wrote, "I am thinking of of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share..."
Dear J.R.R. has also inspired me to write more for my brother (all of my writing is directed at men, but the young sibling has been neglected far too long), so that he will remember me for something more than the "bad sister" who stays out too late and eats all the candy.