Why does this story move so many people so?

[Arathiriel]

Well, i think it is different depending on who you are. I am moved, and I believe others to be moved so much by it becase of the amazing standard of writing. We are transported into another world where we are presented to characters so believable that we 'fall in love' with them. We go through their pain, their joy, their sadness. I hope I don't sound too soppy here. But the real question to be asked is why does it move you.

Well said or at least what you said applies to me! I mean when I read these books I was transported to another time, place, and world that was inhabited by characters whose stories, pains, and struggles that touched my heart very deeply.

We go through SO MUCH with these people it is hard not to come to love them all! And it is just as hard not to feel their joys, triumphants, and sorrows!

[ September 17, 2002: Message edited by: Arathiriel ]