How were you introduced to Tolkien?

[Armadoin]

First, I would like to say this; many of you have been refering to the books as a trilogy. That in itself is not true: Tolkien never wanted it to be a trilogy, and besides, there are a total of 6 books in the one book. The publishers simply wanted it split into three books for odd marketing purposes.

Any way; I am also ashamed to say that I had never heard of lotr until the movie came out. I had been forced to read the Hobbit in 8th grade, and I loathed every minute of it *slaps self silly with book*. When the movie came out, my sister told me we had to go see it, because her friends had told her it was great. So, I went to see it, and I fell in love with the whole aspect. I went home and read the Hobbit and loved it, then went out the next day and bought the book and stayed awake until I had read the whole thing, then I read it again, and I discovered the list of books in the back, and so far I have only read the shaping of middle earth, the sil, Bolt2, and sir Gawain. I am making it a point to read every one of his books at least twice before I die (which hopefully won't be for another 80 years) But, so ends my epic tale of my conversion. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]