What do you feel when you read the book?

[Daisy Brambleburr]

I mostly feel overwhelmed

I agree with Meela. When I finished RotK I felt like someone had hit me with a plank of wood. There's so much to think about, and I was sort of stunned at what I'd just read. LotR is unlike anything else I'd ever enjoyed, it's so complex and immense you can't help but be affected by it.

As I'm reading the book, I feel so much stuff. Sadness a lot of the time (especially at the end), fear for Sam in Cirith Ungol, the tension when everyone's waiting for Rohan in the seige of Gondor (and relife when they turn up). I got very freaked out by the Black Riders, but the descriptions of Lothlorien were so beautiful they made me want to visit very badly.