[Elanor]

I loved The Hobbit from the age of about 7. I can't remember whether I read the book first, or had the audio tapes. But I had a fantastic recording of Nicol Williamson reading the book, which I used to have instead of a bedtime story.

My father started to read LotR with me (we read it to each other out loud) when my mum went to college and left us on our own in the week. I must have been about 8 or 9, because it was just before the radio version came out. I loved that too, and taped all 13 hours of it. That was more than 20 years ago, and my tapes only just gave up the ghost, after being played constantly! I have finally replaced them with CDs. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]