What was your first Tolkien Book? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

tangerine · 07-22-2002, 01:33 PM

i read the hobbit when i was 15. I wanted to read LOTR first but my dad said that i needed to read the hobbit first, and i wanted an easy book for writing a novel study essay on, using the topic of the quest. as soon as i was done the essay i read LOTR in 3 weeks and started the simarillion about 2 weeks after that. I tried to read some of Tolkien's Letters, but it was a little abstract for me.

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07-22-2002, 01:33 PM	#21
tangerine Haunting Spirit Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 100	i read the hobbit when i was 15. I wanted to read LOTR first but my dad said that i needed to read the hobbit first, and i wanted an easy book for writing a novel study essay on, using the topic of the quest. as soon as i was done the essay i read LOTR in 3 weeks and started the simarillion about 2 weeks after that. I tried to read some of Tolkien's Letters, but it was a little abstract for me.