There sure are a lot of great readers in this forum. I first read the hobbit and attemted the lord of the rings when I was 13. I fell in love with the books but I didn't make it as far as return of the king. It was just too long. I eventualy picked it up again and finishd it. I've since read them twice more and then the Silmarillion when I was 18 (last year). The Silmarillion facinated me because previously I didn't know of it's existence. I used to be annoyed by the appendixes at the end of the return of the king. It told you Morgoth destroyed the two tree's. It didn't tell you what the two tree's were, where they came from, who was Morgoth, where HE came from, who was Feanor etc. The Sil had all the answers.
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"Come away, O human child!/ To the waters and the wild/With a faery hand in hand,/ For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."
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