Wow. You guys are smart. I'm sitting here with my little handheld dictionary having to look up a word every other sentence on your posts [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
Anyway, I think I sort of understand your question Child of the 7th age. I believe, as a teenager, the moral problems and dilemmas faced in lotr pertain very directly to my life in a wierd way. I've thought of the ring as being sin or doing somthing bad. It looks tempting but it can only lead to bad things. I see this especially in an incident I had when someone offered me drugs. It was like Gandalf being offered the ring. Taking the ring for Gandalf would give him power but in the end would destroy him and other people around him. If I had taken the drugs, it would had given me popularity but in the end would have destroyed me and my family. If you think of that in that respect, lotr is not some little cute fairy tale but somthing you can relate to in everyday life and I think thats the way Tolkien wanted it.
I hope I answered your question correctly [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
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