I am just finishing FotR and the thing that has really struck me this time is Tolkien's emphasis on fellowship and it's importance in in ME. That seems to be one of the things he really emphasizes and stays with....perhaps through all 3 books. But for sure all through the first one.

Certainly it is one of the most important things in our world.

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"If you do not find a way, no one will."

yes fellowship, but also friendship and regard for each other
..the strengths and weakness that each character possess
..the accept of each difference in a `person´as an added quality, to which all can benefit
..humor, plays a large part in the fellowship, to laugh with each other and at oneself..

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MvL/Nurr
my Aragorn

Hmm all very good points! I loved the description. You could tell that he could see these loactions in his head. It wasn't just ad-libbing.

Yeah, it had to be very real to him. For as long as he spent working on it he must have had unending enthusiasm. He never tired of it I think.

I guess it isn't surprising that I hear over and over on A-U that in years of reading and discussing LotR, they never tire of it either. It is always fresh...new--the characters grow on you like old friends. It is so full and rich; complex, deep and mysterious.

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"If you do not find a way, no one will."

Yes thats true. I've watched the movies and seen the appendecies hundreds of times but no matter how much I know about the behind the scenes the work it never ruins the movie for me. And it takes a truely great movie or book to do that for you.

...I believe, that as your life changes, so does your insight to each character
..the books allow you to go behind and inside the characters..and as you grow, you have the opportunity to understand each person with time..
..maybe that´s why the books never lose their interest??

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my Aragorn

I don't know. I was talking about the movies. But I think it does have that quality with the books too. Sure, as you age you earn a deeper knowledge of things but other than that I really think it was the high quality of the story that keeps the interest.

Great thought! I think you really hit something here Zandaïn. So often I listen to descriptions of what it was like to read them at 12 and then again at 25. It is a totally different and new experience. As our life matures and changes, so does our understanding of these awesome books.. And I think our love of them deepens too.

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"If you do not find a way, no one will."

Yes I believe that is true. But again, I know some book sthat would be torture to read again. With LOTR, for me anyways, I want to read them again. And I am only 13, so I lookforward to reading them later on in my life. ^_^