My father read The Hobbit years ago, and I was vaguely intrigued then, but I didn't actually read any of the books until four or five years ago. I confess to my shame that I only got through FoTR, TTT, and the beginning of RoTK before becoming horribly bored and confused. After I watched the first movie, I wanted to refresh my memory, so I read the first book, then after the second movie I read the second and third books, and by the time I got to the Appendices, I was addicted. I in quick succession read The Silmarillion (which is my favorite of all the books), The Unfinished Tales, The Book of Lost Tales 1-2, The Lost Road, and most of the other books Christopher Tolkien put together. I had to quit at The War of the Ring because I could no longer borrow them from the person I was borrowing them from. A good deal of my interest came from one of my best friends, who is obssessed with LoTR.
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Then came there from the south of the city the people of the Fountain, and Ecthelion was their lord, and silver and diamonds were their delight; and swords very long and bright and pale did they wield . . .
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