When is LotR bad for you?

[Wanderer of Light]

Originally Posted by Volo

That brought me to the fact that my 9-year-old brother doesn't really know what LotR is, or any other Tolkien-related stuff. I might be that I'm just lousy brother, but what I think to be the cause to this is that he hasn't been allowed to watch the films because of their violence (?). I don't know if he's watched them secretly, but no way openly.

I went to the cinema with my mother to watch the LoTr movies when I was... uh.... I'm 15 now.... the first one was released in 2001, so I was a 9-year-old-little-brother as well back then as . I remember, though understanding it was (back then) kinda hard at times, it was al ready my favourite movie.....

Now, I have been discouraged to read Tolkien though.... After I saw the third movie, I wanted to read the books as well, and so I did. Now the LoTR's I red in Dutch (which is my native language), after that I red The Hobbit in English... Since I was 12 or 13 or something The Hobbit wasn't to difficult for me, I managed that quit easily. ut after that I still hadn't had enough of Tolkien.

Well here comes the problem, the next (obvious) book on my list was The Sil'. Now I can assure you, reading that in English, not being a native English speaker and a 13-year-old, is quit difficult. (It was good for my English though ). It discouraged me a little in the beginning, especially the stuff the Beginning, when the cool-butt-kicking-über-elves starded kicking some butt I starded liking it more and more .