You know how we all have a friend from our early years with whom we have our best childhood memories, of eating Popsicle until your hands are sticky, of riding bikes and falling of it, of eating candies and cakes, of sharing scary stories, of knocking on doors and running away, of fighting and crying, of laughing, and of all the things wonderful and sublime?
If that childhood friend could be a book, that'd be The Hobbit for me. Always have, always will be.