[NyteSky]

It's good to know that others have been affected by fantasy in the same ways I am. I started in... oh about 3rd grade when I switched schools. So I was always the quiet one with the huge book. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] I don't know how i would've survived those years without it.
Fantasy is a portable vacation, but better. It can take me out of the Psychology class that's boring me to death and I can hunt the Wilds from dragonback. Endless possibilities. And there's always hope. No matter how many rings of power the almighty Sauron crafts there's always that slim chance of a tiny hobbit overthrowing him and restoring the world.
From a purely logical point of view it's proved invaluable with school. (I'm still trapped in highschool sad to say) Vocabulary, spelling (mine's still far from perfect but you should have seen it before) writing etc.
Most importantly it stretches one's imagination, more than any other genre seems to. It shows me things I never would have thought of, lets me see things from the other guy's point of view, takes me places long forgotten. I owe a great debt to fantasy and its writers. The world would be a barren desert without it, devoid of beauty and imagination and hope.