Oh, hush, Maril, I don't think anyone here is as old as they imply [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img].
Anyhoo, I decided to read LotR when I saw the previews for the movie, but I waited until I had finished the book before I saw the movie. It was actually my mom's idea to buy the book in the first place. I read the Hobbit almost immediately after LotR, then I found the Silm and UT in the most unlikely place immaginable- a bookstore in an old, run-down town in Missouri, where not much had changed since my mother lived there.
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Consider the purr a variety of audible tranquilizer. [. . .] For a few of us, there is one more purr, a secret purr. When we combine our secret purrs, we produce the Purr of Power. And that is simply the amplified amity we feel as furred and purred beings.
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