When did you first read Lord of the Rings?

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Originally Posted by Inziladun

I had a book which was nothing but screenshots from the movie and captions. I remember it had a purple or blue cover depicting Gandalf holding Glamdring, standing by the hobbits and looking about 11 feet tall.

Wasn't that the cover image the movie poster as well? I remember my copy had the same pic on it but the background I think was white. My version of it was like a regular cartoon album (a bit bigger than the standard A4 papers and maybe fifty pages or so), the pics were screenshots from the movie but I think there were those "speech bubbles" there for the lines of the characters. But I'm not sure.

I gave away all my cartoon-albums when I was fourteen or something. My aunt was a librarian in a small village and my parents persuaded me to give them as a gift to that library. Maybe that was a decent thing to do but I must say that looked at in retrospect I do miss some of them (not only the LotR but also the Fred albums, Valerians, Blueberries, Tintins...).