This is and always will be my favorite book series. I could read this from start to finish and start again immediately with no problems, forever. I will love this series when I'm too senile to remember my own name.
Such a detailed, rich, perfect writing... Written and spoken languages documented for every race, histories charted perfectly with nary a day's difference, True-to-life characters with none of the phonied-up personality so prevalent today to catch interest... if you have to insert quirks and defects, its not real. Relationships and culture and events are what shape people, and JRR Tolkein taught me that.
I reread his books and despair of writing well amidst being inspired to do so.
~Nome
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"Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to." - Mark Twain Nome's LJ
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