How did you Come across these Books

[Laitoste]

Originally Posted by Folwren

I've kept the first copies I ever read. I actually read the books that my dad got when he was in...highschool, I think. He never read them, but they were old when I got my hands on them. By the time they'd lived through being read by four of us five kids, the FotR was in five parts, but the other two survived it rather well.

My first copy was my dad's from high school, too. I have another set for annotating, as these first ones nurtured two generations of geeks and are far too precious to be scribbled in!

I vaguely remember reading the Fellowship quite young, but wasn't interested until my teacher started reading the Hobbit to us in class. I read the Fellowship and The Two Towers two years later, but moved before I could read the Return of the King. In other words, I was "normal" for a whole 2 months of my high school career.

[Rikae]

Well, this sounds terribly silly, but my first crush was on a friend of my dad's (I was eight, he was 27) who ran a bookstore and was a Tolkien expert. I was already a bookworm, and so of course I had to read the books that so fascinated the object of my affection! My first copies of the were cheap paperbacks which, alas, are long gone, but that lovely man actually gave me a copy of the so-called "Big Red Book of Death", which is at this moment, 19 years later, sitting beside my keyboard.