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Haunting Spirit
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: perth, west australia
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I think the complexity of Tolkien's work is a major factor. For every person who reads LotR once and says, "yeah, that's nice", there's another who reads it every year, including all the appendices, and studies Tolkien further in terms of The Silmarillion, HoME, various commentaries, the 'Downs...
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