I've always loved the quote "Not all those who wander are lost" and I always felt The battle of evermore and other Led Zeppelin's songs were inspired in his work, but I gotta confess: I don't like Tolkien. I mean I tried to read him but I couldn't even finish the first book of Lord of the rings and then I tried to read some of their short stories and couldn't finish them either. I thought "Maybe I don't like this kind of books" but then I found George R. R. Martin and I totally loved him, so that's not the reason. Nevertheless he is a cult author and his legacy is a proof of how big he was. Great post.