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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> ...movies don't count, you have to read the books!!

Now, Wonder Woman, that depends on whether you seek entertainment or 
immersion into a writer's vision. Actually, having read a bit about 
Tolkien, I doubt the books would keep my interest. I find fantasy 
akin to spirituality; some speaks to me and some doesn't. Beyond 
spirituality, Tolkien was religious. That url I referenced in my last 
post included this: 'The Lord of the Rings' is of course a 
fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, 
but consciously in the revision," Tolkien wrote in a letter in 1953 
to Robert Murray, a Jesuit priest.

Should I ever choose to spend a couple days of my precious time to 
read JRRT I have his books nearly at hand; nearby friends are as 
enamored of him as you. They call their place Hobbitwoods. But they 
have normal feet.

> There is so much more to Tolkien than meets the eye...his writing
> embodies what homesteaders dream of-a simple lifestyle of self
> sufficient living in a slower paced world.  Oh, to live in the Shire.... ;)

Sure was a lot of violence in the movie version. You are creating 
your own Shire, far better than merely fantasizing. Alas, we cannot 
attain Camelot, where it never rained until after sundown.

So many books, so little time.