[Teleri]

I'm thirteen, I just discovered this site, and it seems great. I never knew there where so many people out there who could quote Tolkien by memory.

Back to the fisrt post... I was introduced to Tolkien when I was in first grade. I was tired of baby books, but first graders were only allowed to get books from one corner of the whole school library. I was pointed in the direction of Tolkien, because though the schools abridged comic book addition of "The Hobbit" was "really closer to a second grade level" they could make an exception. Thus I was introduced to a comic book version of Tolkien where sting glowed red rather than blue. I remember going to my dad, and telling him that it was to bad Tolkien wasn't a real writer, because this book would be soooo good if it wasn't comic strip. My dad (being a Tolkien fan, and hater of abridged versions in any way shape or form) went out and got me a special edition of the book. From the first sentence I was hooked, perhaps by the idea of Hobbits, or just as likely by the way Tolkien almost imediatly goes off on a tangent.
When I began Fellowship of the Ring I was discoraged. my teacher told me it was over my head, and too scary for me. I DID have a brief stage where I got nightmeres about my teacher dressed as a Black Rider (which was the reason I found it comforting that the Nazgul cannot be seen). Anyway, since then I've read the Trillogy about fifty two times, The hobbit seven times, the Silm. 4 times, and am on my second read of unfinished tales, and the HoME books. Incase you have not already guessed, I'm an obsessive reader.

And for closure: I am now out of reach of interfering librarians, as I have convinced my parents to home school me.