That some people even discourage or turn away from Tolkien's works altogether has always astounded me. I myself was practically raised by LotR and the Hobbit. My father introduced it to me at the mere age of five, and i have loved it ever since. As for the matter that the name of the thread portrays, LotR, in my opinion, is never bad for a person(Save for in my case, as it is slowly but surely driving me mad. I often hear German voices in my head telling me various things about Morgoth)
Tolkien's literature has made me who I am today. An independant, near-brilliant, heartless person of malice with an undeniable carelessness of other people's problems, in other words, the half-Irish half-German spawn of Morgoth Bauglir, aka, the perfect republican.
You could say that i have, "Poured my cruelty, my malice, and my will to dominate all life" into the creation of another man.