As a lot of this topic, I have to say I am new as well. I found out about the Barrowdowns through a friend who used to be on this messageboard as well, he referred to this quit a time ago and I remembered it lately, asked him about the URL and registered.
I am Dutch, and 14 years of age. I starded reading Tolkien stuff about to be honest... maybe 1.5-2 years ago
I wasn't much of a reader for Lord Of The Rings to be honest, so after seeing the movie I didn't immiditly starded to read. By now I've read af course the LoTR's, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales. For a Dutch feast very much like Christmas (Sinterklaas to be accurate, on the fifth of December.) I got the first 3 volumes of The History Of Middle-Earth and Unfinished Tales, I Finished Unfinished Tales not long ago so I am now busy (since a few days) in The Book Of Lost tales pt. 1
Well, there's not much more for me too tell (live you're life and live it well <- Sorry that's a Megadeth lyric, after the first line of it I couldn't control myself and typ the second line
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