[Merri]

I searched through 5 pages of the Novices and Newcomers' section and didn't find this topic, so I don't think it has been posted before, but if it has, someone tell me and I'll get rid of this topic.

Anyway, now that that's said, the whole point of this topic is: Why do you admire Tolkien?

Peter S. Beagle says it beautifully for me in the preface of the new edition:

"He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either; he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers- thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams."