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Old 07-27-2003, 09:32 PM   #81
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I'm not sure when I read The Hobbit, but I think I was around 10. A few months after that I read that (?), I read LOTR a couple of times. Then I found out that there was a movie coming out and got confused with Arwen and Eowyn, so I read the books again to clear up that confusion. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] After I watched the movie, my love for the books was renewed and I have read them around five times over the course of the last two years. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
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Old 07-29-2003, 01:15 PM   #82
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My friends had read the books before the movies, and were always telling me to read them. When Fotr came out, I read The Hobbit, got exited, and read Fotr and TTT. I haven't read Rotk yet, but am planning on it as soon as I have time and energy.
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Old 07-31-2003, 12:08 PM   #83
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I only started to read FOTR after the movie came out. Be fore the movie my brother started to read it and my friend said it was really good. I had read the first and second book by the time the movie came out on DVD. Now I'm hooked.
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Old 07-31-2003, 02:25 PM   #84
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My dad started reading a chapter of The Hobbit to me every night for a bedtime story when I was about five, and after we finished that he read LotR.
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Old 08-01-2003, 03:32 PM   #85
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My father brought us back a copy of The Hobbit from a business trip when I was about five, and mum read it out loud to us. Over the years, it's been read countless times, and is now falling apart. It's still my favorite book!

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Old 08-10-2003, 04:07 PM   #86
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RE: MY FIRST TIME

I read The Lord of the Rings in 1979. Each time I read it I pass it on to someone else. Then I can buy a new copy for myself and read it again.
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Old 08-10-2003, 09:21 PM   #87
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Hmmmm... I read The Hobbit when I was in the sixth grade, about 5 years ago, and I loved it so my parents bought me The Lord of the Rings boxed set. I started FotR, but never got passed the first chapter. I was a sad, sick child.

After the movie came out, I picked it up again and read through it pretty quickly. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] I read TTT and RotK right aftZ
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Old 08-12-2003, 05:38 PM   #88
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I read the Hobbit when I was in sixth grade too! ... that was fifteen years ago.
The year before that, I got ahold of the LOTR trilogy.
Anyway, it's great to know I'm not the only non-teenager here. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]
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Old 08-12-2003, 06:02 PM   #89
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Well, let's see... ok, when i first read the lotr series i was about 11... i had to because for a english project we had to pick a book on fantasy, and my group chose the two towers,then keep a journal on what we thought about the author and book. Of, course i had only read the hobbit, so i only had three weeks to read the first book! thank god my friend had read the series 3 times at least... i have to say thought that i though that the books were excellent and i was surprised at how well they were written. I myself having been only eleven,and didn't understand most of what was going on entil later, but i thought it was a masterpeice... [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

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Old 08-15-2003, 05:14 PM   #90
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I read it when I just turned 11. I'm 15 now, and have read them all about 15 times since
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Old 08-27-2003, 12:57 PM   #91
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i read it when the first movie came out (i had to read it b4 i could c the movie).
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Old 08-27-2003, 01:13 PM   #92
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I love these threads because I read my first Tolkien book when I was FOUR! *waits for stares* I´m special! Hahaha! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

It was the Father Christmas Letters- I totally loved that book when I was small...next was Roverandom, when I was six. I read The Hobbit when I was eight or nine, but I thought it was boring *shame on me*
I forgot Tolkien and all untill the first movie came out...I read LotR in about two days that Christmas. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
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Old 08-29-2003, 05:19 AM   #93
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I have been trying to read The Hobbit since february, but have failed miserably... Its just not as interesting and has less elves... though Elrond seems happier...

I read LOTR two years ago and became a fan right away and have ben trying to convert my friends...
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Old 08-29-2003, 11:28 AM   #94
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At first I read The Hobbit - so exactly according to the events sequence. My younger brother prompted me to do that - in fact, that was the first book which he had read before me! That was about three years ago.
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Old 08-30-2003, 02:28 AM   #95
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But the first book i read was "Edward the Emu" and "Possum Magic" and i still read them today... over and over again, but i have to say LOTR isnt my fave completely. It is Alice in Wonderland. I may not be an exact expert on everything tolkien, but what i do know is everything about Alice.
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Old 09-03-2003, 11:05 AM   #96
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I had read the Hobbit first and I tried to read Fellowship but it was "too hard." I was young and naive, that was in 5th grade, 4 years ago, and at that time I was into Harry Potter [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] I still like HP but LOTR is just so much more interesting. I finally tried again after I saw the movie and then searched and found the Silmarillion and had read it over the summer. Can't wait until ROTK!
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