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I believe he came closest any author ever has to walking someone else through their imagination. Tolkien only wrote a story incidentally. What he did was show

I believe he came closest any author ever has to walking someone else through their imagination. Tolkien only wrote a story incidentally. What he did was show us the real Middle earth, the one in his mind. Most authors are the Lonely Planet Guide to their fantasy worlds. Tolkien... Tolkien was David Attenborough.

pjscott 16y ago
As someone whose imagination was shaped in large part by reading Tolkien's vivid descriptions of Middle Earth as a child, I couldn't agree more. You put it beautifully.