No, I am not entering the boxing ring. I am returning to a different kind of ring, the Lord of the Rings. While I have lost count, I suspect I have read the Lord of the Rings approximately ten times. There was a time when I read it every year.
While I have a nice hardcover set of Lord of the Rings, for nostalgic sake, I am reading the first copy I ever had, one that I have had about forty years ago.
One Christmas, while I was a teenager, my mother gave my a set of the Lord of the Rings. I was not really familiar with the story but I thought I would give it a shot.
I hardly did anything else that Christmas break and I finished all three books that week.
There is something about Tolkien’s writings that does something for me. It touches mind and heart. It taps into a part of us that is ancient and powerful.
I have been enjoying reading it and look forward to finishing it again in the next couple of weeks. Hopefully it will not be as long for me to return again.
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