How old were you the first time you read LOTR?

[Amanaduial the archer]

Originally Posted by Elladan and Elrohir

I started Fellowship and was COMPLETELY hooked. Mesmerized in the world of Middle-Earth. The only thing I skimmed while reading it for the first time was the Council of Elrond chapter, in which I was completely lost after about two pages of monologues. But I plunged forward, and, in less than a week, I had finished LOTR.

You are a person of my own heart, Elladan and Elrohir! I skimmed a few other parts such as the first chapter in my first reading, but never fear, I have gone back and re-read...

I also read Lord of the Rings when I was 12, three years ago but blissfully unaware of the films' almost imminent arrival about four months later. I read the hobbit several years before though, when I was in year three or four in primary school - so at about eight years old.