When this time of year comes around (winter as well), I always find myself being more involved in Middle-earth...always find myself thinking more about it (as if I don't think about it enough

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I believe it's the whole setting where I live. I love in Long Island, where we get full changes of each season. I also think it's definitely because that's when the whole journey of The Lord of the Rings takes place.
Does anybody else get a bigger sense of Middle-earth in the Autumn and Winter seasons?