I had The Hobbit read to me, I believe when I was ten. I'd read it once before, but I somehow failed to really catch the magic. Probably never read attentively enough. And I still didn't get too excitred about it first...not until they met the goblins. The scene with the wargs had me shaking in excitement, and after that point, I was totally hooked on Tolkien. Past that I would get angry whenever a reading session was over.
I'm rereading LotR, as I always am, when I have nothing better to do, or on days like today, when I'm too sick to really move much. I constantly find myself reading aloud, whispering, really, everything that the characters say. Not thew narration, just the quotes. And especially Gollum's . (And wouldn't you know it -- his 'Gollum' voice in the movie was exactly as I'd always spoken it myself! I wonder, will the 'Smeagol' voice sound stangely familiar, as well?)
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...in Khazad-dûm his wisdom died...
"Now come, you filth! You've hurt my master, you brute, and you'll pay for it. We're going on; but we'll settle with you first. Come on, and taste it again!"
"If I'm to go on, then I must take your sword, by your leave, Mr. Frodo, but I'll put this one to lie by you, as it lay by the old king in the barrow; and you've got your beautiful mithril coat from old Mr. Bilbo. And your star-glass, Mr. Frodo, you did lend it to me and I'll need it, for I'll be always in the dark now. It's too good for me, and the Lady gave it to you, but maybe she'd understand. Do you understand, Mr. Frodo? I've got to go on."
-Nova
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