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Kransha · 02-03-2004, 01:58 PM

I'm no prodigy, but I think I capably understood the Hobbit when I read it at age 9. I didn't know there was more for a year, when I discovered the trilogy. I spent a two weeks at age 10 reading some every night for almost three hours and finished the three of them (times probably inaccurate). Now I re-read every year. The Silmarillion came at 11, since it didn't seem as good. It turned out that it was even more epic, but still not as great as the trilogy itself.

02-03-2004, 01:58 PM	#95
Kransha Ubiquitous Urulóki Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: The port of Mars, where Famine, Sword, and Fire, leash'd in like hounds, crouch for employment Posts: 747	I'm no prodigy, but I think I capably understood the Hobbit when I read it at age 9. I didn't know there was more for a year, when I discovered the trilogy. I spent a two weeks at age 10 reading some every night for almost three hours and finished the three of them (times probably inaccurate). Now I re-read every year. The Silmarillion came at 11, since it didn't seem as good. It turned out that it was even more epic, but still not as great as the trilogy itself. __________________ "What mortal feels not awe/Nor trembles at our name, Hearing our fate-appointed power sublime/Fixed by the eternal law. For old our office, and our fame," -Aeschylus, Song of the Furies