why do i enjoy tolkien? well, for one, because languages are my hobby. and too, as so many of you have said, middle earth is just as real a place to me as the earth we now inhabit. tolkien put so much thought and labour into these books, they have an intricacy and an integrity that i have found very seldom elsewhere. for me, it is a pleasure of the highest order to read such a masterful work of literature as the lord of the rings.
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