May 26, 2022:

He understands why she gave him Slan and Against the Fall of Night.

She was impressing loneliness upon him, a gift of misunderstanding from the hillbilly version of an intellectual.

Why The Lord of the Rings?

Was it an attempt to communicate? Her form of sharing her inmost self: her fantasy world?

A spiritual bond? A magical link?

Or purely something she simply thought he'd like?

Whatever her motive, it became his world, for far too long.