Wow... I'd forgotten about this thread. My current pre-teen Lord of the Rings activities (I'm not the pre-teen, they are... actually, most of them aren't. Hm... well, at least they're teens.) are attempting the impossible. I'm trying to get some of my friends into the LotR addicts that everyone should be. Mwahahahaha. Only it's not working, since my copy of The Hobbit is currently celebrating its 6th month on my friend's bedside table, since he started it and was too bored to finish.
I'm also trying to get my Trilogy class to read both the Appendices in RotK and The Silmarillion. You'd think, considering they're all LotR junkies, that they'd be tripping over their own feet trying to get to this stuff, but it's amazingly difficult to convince anybody. But I'm doing it the hard way (they're all being dragged, kicking and screaming into reading this stuff): For the appendices I'm introducing certain people to certain parts. Such as "Hey Kel- have you read the story of Aragorn and Arwen?" as she is a bit of a romanticist. And "Fireball- you should really read the part where Helm Hammerhand dies. He's still standing up when they find him!"
Then for the Silmarillion... That's really hard. A friend bought a copy for $5 on a Florida vacation, tried reading the first page, then gave it away. Another friend just bought it and hasn't even looked at it yet, since he's a bit terrified of it. Yet another friend just bought the Silm but she's waiting until summer to read it. I told them what I tell everybody: "If you can make it past The Realms of Beleriand, you can do anything." That scares them a bit though...
I'm still trying to find some local pre-teen 'Rings fans. Not much luck there though. Maybe I'll just snag some junior high kids, hand them the books, and offer to give them junk food if they read them. That could work... Mwahahahaha. Hook 'em while they're young...
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