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Gorothlammothiel · 09-26-2002, 01:10 PM

No one ever read the books to me as a child, none of my family have read them themselves.
I was 8 years old when I first found LOTR at the library, whatever possesed me to read such a book at that age I still do not know.
It took a month or two to read and my teacher complimented me for doing so, although he thought I had not understood it. I read it again at 10, then at 11 I found the Hobbit in the school libary and read that.
At 13 I read the Sil for the first time and moved on through the HoME and the others.
Eight years on from when I first picked up the books and I am still re-reading them all, and with the movies creating so many new readers it is becoming more likely that I can have the conversation about the books that I have been waiting for all this time.

09-26-2002, 01:10 PM	#11
Gorothlammothiel Registered User Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Sitting in front of my preferred world.... Posts: 254	No one ever read the books to me as a child, none of my family have read them themselves. I was 8 years old when I first found LOTR at the library, whatever possesed me to read such a book at that age I still do not know. It took a month or two to read and my teacher complimented me for doing so, although he thought I had not understood it. I read it again at 10, then at 11 I found the Hobbit in the school libary and read that. At 13 I read the Sil for the first time and moved on through the HoME and the others. Eight years on from when I first picked up the books and I am still re-reading them all, and with the movies creating so many new readers it is becoming more likely that I can have the conversation about the books that I have been waiting for all this time.