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Originally posted by arcite:
LotR is not just a book, it is a work of great Literature (with a capital L). A thousand years from now people will still be reading LotR, just as we still read Shakespeare or Homer.
As to the specifics as to why LotR is so great, well there are hundreds of books/essays/papers that can answer that including university courses that are devoted to it.
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There might be courses and papers on it, but those don't help us right now in this discussion. Could you point out to us some of those reasons?