how did LOTR change you?

[Neferchoirwen]

I mentioned it in another thread yesterday, but since I'm just a "beginner," so far, The Hobbit and FotR brought me back to my senses.

Turning the pages made me escape (a popular word in the realms of Fantasy Lit), and gave a break from tons of school work.

I went trekking a few weeks back, and I thought that I would never make it. But I was so into it the moment I was actually trekking, and thought "this is easy." I put myself in the shoes of the hobbits on their first leg of the journey, and suddenly, I slipped and nearly fell off the path of slippery mud and into a white water part of a river. At that moment, I cried for a while, and I realized how hard it actually is to move around around like that while Nazgul are hunting you down. Thought my story may be a little far-fetched, I was humbled.

Hope I can expalin some more. I'm getting a little sleepy.