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Boromir_bg · 01-01-2007, 03:54 PM

It's interesting.I've always been a fan of the fantasy and the sci-fi.Since childhood.I prefer fantasy though if I have to choose.It's somewhat related to the past and history of the mankind and the sci-fi is related to the future.
Anyways - there were in Bulgaria a special kind of roleplay gamebooks,which I really enjoyed in my early ages so after they stopped making them I related myself to the great Tolkien world,because I understood for it from them.

The Might · 01-01-2007, 05:47 PM

I first read the Hobbit when I was smaller, maybe 10 in Romania. I know I enjoyed reading fantasy, and I had found the book in my grandmother's bookshelf...that's how it started
I afterwards purchased it in English, and bought LOTR after reading the first chapter of the book at the end of the Hobbit.
I purchased the Silmarillion, the UT, and some of the "minor works" after the movies appeared

ArathorofBarahir · 01-03-2007, 03:02 PM

I remember it like it was yesterday. The day was Thursday December 20th, and I had just gotten home from school (I was a sophomore in high school at the time) and turned on MTV and on there was the Making the Movie Lord of the Rings the Fellowship of the Ring \ and I was hooked. So I had my mom take me to the mall and get me the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, all three in one book and I read the Hobbit by Saturday morning, was finished with the Fellowship by sunday around lunch-time afterwhich I went to the movies and saw FOTR for the first of seven times and after that I came home and was finished reading the whole thing by the day after Christmas. By far, these memories I will never forget.

01-01-2007, 03:54 PM	#1
Boromir_bg Pile O'Bones Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 16	It's interesting.I've always been a fan of the fantasy and the sci-fi.Since childhood.I prefer fantasy though if I have to choose.It's somewhat related to the past and history of the mankind and the sci-fi is related to the future. Anyways - there were in Bulgaria a special kind of roleplay gamebooks,which I really enjoyed in my early ages so after they stopped making them I related myself to the great Tolkien world,because I understood for it from them. __________________ The Pride of Gondor!

01-01-2007, 05:47 PM	#2
The Might Guard of the Citadel Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Oxon Posts: 2,205	I first read the Hobbit when I was smaller, maybe 10 in Romania. I know I enjoyed reading fantasy, and I had found the book in my grandmother's bookshelf...that's how it started I afterwards purchased it in English, and bought LOTR after reading the first chapter of the book at the end of the Hobbit. I purchased the Silmarillion, the UT, and some of the "minor works" after the movies appeared __________________ “The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.” Delos B. McKown

01-03-2007, 03:02 PM	#3
ArathorofBarahir Wight Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Crickhallow Posts: 247	I remember it like it was yesterday. The day was Thursday December 20th, and I had just gotten home from school (I was a sophomore in high school at the time) and turned on MTV and on there was the Making the Movie Lord of the Rings the Fellowship of the Ring \ and I was hooked. So I had my mom take me to the mall and get me the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, all three in one book and I read the Hobbit by Saturday morning, was finished with the Fellowship by sunday around lunch-time afterwhich I went to the movies and saw FOTR for the first of seven times and after that I came home and was finished reading the whole thing by the day after Christmas. By far, these memories I will never forget. __________________ King of the Dead: The dead do not suffer the living to pass. Aragorn: You will suffer me.