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.