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I first read The Hobbit when I was 10 or 11. I was a science fiction fan and decided I wanted to try fantasy and had heard that Tolkien was the best. I was unaware that there was a "sequel" until about a year later.
While I still occasionally read The Hobbit, doing so is more part of a tradition and I enjoy it a bit less because the writing style is less adult than LoTR, The Silmarillion, etc. Tolkien was writing to a target audience, after all. I believe that to a first-time reader (and probably also to a repeat reader who had not read it so often), it would still be "fresh."
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Beleriand, Beleriand,
the borders of the Elven-land.
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