LOTR and your Weltanschauung

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Originally Posted by sarimaarit

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LOTR really saved me. I first read it when I was 12 or 13 and it didn't quite open to me then. But then when I was 14 I read it again and lo! a magic gate opened and led me to another world. That was really good, because I was having a hard time at school, I was bullied around etc and my days were misery. So I entered Tolkien's world and that was my hiding place, the only thing that kept me sane for the next two years.



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If you make all ages about 2 years younger, I could have written that .......

It also nurtured an interest in language and meant I was about the only student in my cohort really enthusiastica bout the linguistics part of our studies! Also I started to appreciate trees more......

Gandalf's words about life and death changed my thinking on capital punishment.

" In Western Lands....." is associated for me with my mother's Sam-like and dauntless attitude to terminal cancer. Nuff said...