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Well "Father Christmas" gave me the LOTR a tad prematurely the year I read the Hobbit (having missed the final episode on Jackanory because I was at Brownies. I got stuck at the end of the Two Towers (Cirith Ungol was a bit too scary for me at nine) and only re-read it entirely a year or so later. I know I was hooked by the time I got to secondary school. My original copies disintegrated when I lent them to my Goddaughter who couldn't wait for her brother to finish with their copy. My next set are pretty tatty so I got the revised 50th anniversary all in one and covet the boxed hardbacks for best...
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“But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.”
Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace
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