Here is my favorite photo of J.R.R. Tolkien. He has had a powerful effect on my life. The Lord of the Rings trilogy was the instrument of healing and sustaining hand that helped me through my parents divorce and subsequent trials and personal sufferings. His world became my Eden in the midst of my hell. the themes and the people in that book were light a light in a very dark place. I had my own dark shadow to fight. To know that little people could overcome great darkness, was illuminating to me; in a time when I needed light. I am forever indebted to his genius.