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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Fri, 03 Aug 2012 10:01:24 +0200, Troels Forchhammer   
    wrote:   
      
   >Part of the whole point is that there are things in /LotR/ that most   
   >25-years-olds are likely to miss -- the book is layered and complex, so   
   >the fact that one can read it and like it is not the same as saying that   
   >one can fully comprehend it.  I know I got my first personal copy for my   
   >eighteenth, and at that point there was still much that I not only   
   >'just' didn't get, but which I was still too immature to be able to get.   
   >   
   >The things that made it my favourite book in my teens are wholly   
   >different from the things that make it my favourite book now (when my   
   >oldest child is out of his teens).   
      
   Exactly.   
      
   That is the differnce between LOTR (and books by the other Inklings)  and   
   books that you only read once. They wrote books that are worth rereading   
   because you see things you didn't see the first time round, or the second, or   
   the third.   
      
      
      
      
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