|
It is the world.
The stories - Lotr, The Hobbit, etc; they could be placed anywhere, but were they good stories or not, they wouldn't be this fascinating if they weren't placed in Middle-earth.
No matter how incomplete the world or its ancient legends might be, Eä has the power to draw the reader into it and make him fall in love with it - to live in Eä more than in this world.
I have never loved anything more than I do love Tolkien and his world. Middle-earth is truly a leaf by Niggle. I know we can never see the whole and finished tree in all its glory, but we have the right to admire at least one leaf, and that is a right not for everyone to understand.
__________________
He bit me, and I was not gentle.
|