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| View Poll Results: I've read Tolkien, for I have... | |||
| Found him on my own in a bookstore |
   
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4 | 3.77% |
| Heard about him from a friend/sibling |
  
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31 | 29.25% |
| Watched the movies |
  
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18 | 16.98% |
| Read exalted criticism in a paper/book and read his works to look for myself |
  
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0 | 0% |
| Read spiteful criticism in a paper/book and read his works to look for myself |
  
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0 | 0% |
| Found the books prohibited in my school/university and decided to have a go |
  
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0 | 0% |
| Been taught his works in school/university |
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4 | 3.77% |
| Been read his works by my parents as a child/read the books bought for me by my parents |
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28 | 26.42% |
| Enjoyed another artist (poet, writer, etc, please indicate) |
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3 | 2.83% |
| Other |
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18 | 16.98% |
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06-09-2007, 08:32 PM
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Curmudgeonly Wordwraith
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I alluded to this elsewhere on the forum, but oddly enough it was Tolkien's obituary that led me to read his books. I was in grade school and happened to see his obit in The Detroit Free Press (complete with his picture and some drawings of Hobbits). Out of curiousity I began reading The Hobbit, and decades later I still keep the Tolkien estate subsidized through annual purchases of their product (which take up most of one of the bookcases in my study).
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