When did you read your first book?

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When I was a sophomore in high school (seems like ages ago), the group I was in had to choose a novel to read for the fourth quarter in Honors English. We decided to read &quot;The Hobbit,&quot; or rather a guy in my group decided we would. I really enjoyed it, and read the other LOTR books. The funny thing was that as a group project, we had to turn our novel into a movie (!) and create a poster, film a trailer, and cast modern-day actors/actresses in the roles. I'm not sure, but I think we cast Sir Alec Guinness as Gandalf.

So, when did everyone else read their first book?

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Last November, I think. Maybe early December. I had been meaning to read them and I had to do a book report for school so I picked up a copy of The Silmarillion from the library. I finished it way before the report was due, and we had to read it during class, so to keep from getting in trouble I decided to get The Hobbit. I finished that early too. I was pretty busy then so I had my mother go out and buy The Fellowship of the Ring and she came back with Unfinished Tales, which I read until either we stopped reading in class or I bought The Fellowship of the Ring, I forget which happened first. I read LotR off and on for the next few months, finished during spring break.

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Re: When did you read your first book?

At the risk of appearing rather long in tooth, The Hobbit, 1972.

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Re: When did you read your first book?

I first read the Hobbit and LotR in 1979...then the Silmarillion in 1980 or thereabout.

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Thank God for Mithadan! I feel positively child-like. I didn't read the Hobbit until the Summer of 1974. I kept starting FotR and getting bored in the first two chapters so I didn't read LotR until (I think) 1976 and I probably only read it then because my father and my sister kept reassuring me that it would not drag along at the pace the whole 1300+ pages.

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Re: When did you read your first book?

Hi guys, I am new here but you will soon get to know me.

I have read the Lord of the Rings 7 times and the Hobbit 4 or 5 times, I cannot remember. Also read the Silmarillion (french version). YEAH I AM FRENCH/ENGLISH......

I read my first Hobbit 16 years ago at the tender age of 13, and have been hooked ever since. I am re-reading the Lord ... at the present, and taking it slow savouring every paragraph.

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Re: When did you read your first book?

Are you any relation to the Gammidgys? If so, you must be a cousin and I'm happy (to be the first?) to welcome you to the Barrow Downs. What is French/English? Some sort of displaced hugenot?

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Re: When did you read your first book?

I am sorry to disappoint you but I am only a long lost cousin from France with an English mother, ie French/English.
Thank you for welcoming me to the Barrow Downs.

By the way, the quizzes on the BD are great but sometimes a little difficult indeed.

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The Hobbit

When I was about 8 or 9, my dad wanted to read the Hobbit to us, his kids. So before we went to bed, he would read a chapter to us. My two sisters quickly lost interest, and my mom would usually sleep through it, but my brother and I loved it.

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Re: The Hobbit

When I was in seventh grade, due to last minute babysitter problems, I had to accompany my parents to a dinner party given by friends of theirs. I was the only child there. One of the hosts suggested I go to the study and read this marvelous book that she had just read. So, I went into the study and spent the next four hours reading Fellowship of the Ring. It was the most extraordinary book I'd ever read. She let me take it home with me and within a couple of weeks I'd finished the trilogy. When I'd visit them, she and I would sit and talk about the books. My folks and her housemate that we were crazy.

I didn't read the Hobbit until Sophomore year in high-school. My fellow LOTR fanatics forced me to do so -- I hated it because it was such a &quot;kid's story.&quot;

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Re: The Hobbit

I first read The Hobbit this past summer. That along with The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.


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Re: The Hobbit

Oh come on now! Surely someone who frequents this board has a few years on me. The Hobbit is a lot older than I am.

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Re: The Hobbit

I first read The Hobbit at the tender year of eight. I went on to read LotR in the same year, then two years later I read Silma when I was ten. I can't reallly remember, but I think I started when I found The Hob in my mum's bookshelf and read it. Since then I've read The Hob and LotR three times each and Silma twice.

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Re: The Hobbit

If Dogtrot were here, Mithadan, he might balm you. But I doubt it. You may be senior scholar at the board. This may be a &quot;board thing&quot; in the deeper sense. We probably all know appreciably older people who read LotR, but there is an observable and little-crossed genrational divide with respect to the internet. One friend of mine has been &quot;Strider&quot; since his days as an army-medic in Vietnam, but many people like him or my dad treat the internet as a resource, not as an environment.

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My first time

All true Galspi. What would JRRT have thought about the net? He may have been ambivilent about technology, however, as an educator and lover of books and languages, he may have liked it.

BTW, I was 11 when I first read the Hobbit (and LoTR).

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Re: My first time

Who started reading Tolkien earliest on this board?

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Re: My first time

1979... age 14

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Re: My first time

Sad to say, I bet I'm the oldest on the board. <img src=frown.gif ALT=":(">

I hold in my hand my first copy of LOTR, although I've acquired several others. It's the first printing of the Ballentine paperback in 1965. I'd like to say I was 5 at the time, but alas, I was 11 and in 7th grade.

Hmmm...I guess I was scrawling &quot;Frodo Lives&quot; on sidewalks before most of you were alive. (And, I bet many of you didn't even get the reference <img src=frown.gif ALT=":(">

Lucky for me that magic ring kept me from aging all those years. <img src=wink.gif ALT=";)">

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Re: My first time

I think I must have been 13 at the time. And it was the Hobbit, followed closely by the LOTR.

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Re: My first time

1978... also the year I played my first session of D&amp;D.

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Re: My first time

I never played D&amp;D but I invented many a role playing game with two friends of mine who also read the LOTR and the Hobbit.
We also played and re-enacted many scenes of the LOTR with the little lead figurines ( one inch ) of which I have about 200.


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Thanks mwcfrodo. I feel much better knowing that someone here has a few years on me. You're lucky that your original copy survived. Mine lasted about 26 years, but did not survive the ravages of my kids. I HAD to go and buy nearly identical replacements on eBay. My problem is that I can't bring myself to crack the bindings. I may have to get another (third) set of LoTR.<img src=wink.gif ALT=";)">

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Gamegie if your mini's are Mithril(name brand) you have quite a collection. they were bringing good money on ebay last i checked.

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Re: My first time

Mithadan:
I have about three and (several) half sets on my shelf. One is my tattered original, one is a tattered replacement, one was the replacement of that set (which I've recently busted the spines of making up quizes, checking quotes, etc., since I started playing on this board). The various half-sets are all that remain of a once-vast library of JRRT that I acquired as &quot;loaners&quot; during my teens when I came to grips with how few loaned copies ever came back, with how many came back ruined, and with the fact that I still wanted to indocrinate my friends. Earlier this sumer I was thinking about buying a solider set, but I've gotten so handy with packing tape that I feel like I'd be insulting my repaired volumes.

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Re: My first time

Sorry to interupt but I read 'The Hobbit' during the summer of freshmen year as a summer reading assignment. I was enthralled by Tolkien's work and went on to read LOTR. I have recently begun the Silmarillion, and have been trying to get a copy of 'The Adventures of Tom Bombadil' but to no avail. Oh well keep trying......

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I cannot remember the make but they were original figurines representing the LOTR characters. Best ones were the company and Sauron as well as TOM B.....

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First time

Suldaledhel - The Adventures of Tom Bombadil can be found in the Tolkien Reader, together with Tree and Leaf and other works. It is available in paperback.

Galspi - I have the same problem with books loaned to others. For this reason, I never loaned anything by JRRT to anyone. My &quot;original&quot; was the Ballantine edition from early-mid-seventies. White cover with original artwork by JRRT. For the first 25 or so years that I owned them, I was almost reverently careful with the bindings, due to nostalgia. When they became damaged, I got the same editions with gold box in mint condition at what I considered to be a premium on eBay. As I monitor eBay auctions of Tolkiena, I have since observed the bids markedly increasing for almost everything, even to the point where recent publications, HoME volumes etc., are auctioning at prices equal to or greater than the price for a new book. The Gold box LoTR which I got now frequently auctions at 2-3 times what I paid. I guess I'm not the only one suffering from nostalgia/sentimentality.

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Re: First time

Read The Hobbit at age 11 in 1987. It seems just like yesterday. Then, later that summer, I remember going to the library and checking out The Fellowship of the Ring. I can still feel the excitement I had when I came back a week later to get The Two Towers. The true magic of Tolkien's work was how it made you feel. You didn't just read his books--- you lived them.

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Re: When did you read your first book?

I first read the hobbit at age 7,and LoTR a year later.
When at age 10 I started with Silma,and since then every couple of months I re-read the whole bunch.Soon I'm probably going to begin with UT.

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Re: When did you read your first book?

The first time I read the books was 1992 when I was 12.
My Dad made me. But he didn't have to use much force, after I had read about three pages of the Hobbit.
I read the books ever since at least once a year.
Sometimes twice.

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Re: My first time

I first had the Hobbit read to me at the age of five and then read it myself in 1991 at the age of six I then later that year read LOTR which I got that Nov for my birthday, I finished it before christmas that year before I was seven and one month. I loved both of those works from the very first word in them. I have read them at least three times a year since.



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Re: When did you read your first book?

I just read The Hobbit this summer! I am currently in the middle of The Two Towers! It is great!!! <img src=eek.gif ALT=":eek">

I am really enjoying these books, and I can't decide if I wish I had read them when I was a kid or not. It would have been a great world to visit back then, but I am as much a kid now as I was then, so I enjoy them all the same!



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It was fun reading this whole thread because I think it is great that a set of books can bring such diverse ages and cultures together. I wonder if Tolkien even fathomed the effect that his books would have on future generations??

But to answer the original question, I first read the The Hobbit in 8th grade (I'm 27 now) for a book report I had to do. I absolutely HATED reading at the time. Well, that quickly changed!! I loved the book and started FotR right away though I couldn't make it through it at the time. I picked it up again in 12th grade and breezed through all 3 books. Then it was on to the Silma and Unfinished Tales. By now I've read all of them several times.

Thanks JRR for turning me on to reading!

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although i might be a bit late, i'm going to answer this one anyway ...

i read the hobbit first in spring of 1988 (7 years old) and started (as well as finished) the lotr in the summer holidays of the same year, just before or after (dunno exactly) my eighth birthday. i took the books from my mother and read those almost every year, and finally, 3 or 4 years ago, i bought my own edition (consisting of 7 books, 1 for the hobbit and 6 for the lotr). 2 years later i bought the english edition and read this and just now (last week) i purchased most of the books from the home-series on a trip to ireland and i'm going to read those as soon as possible (probably in the next holidays, because at the moment i'm a bit overwhelmed by exams in school.

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I read it first about a year ago in Dutch(Hobbit and LotR). I was just 14(two weaks earlier I was srtill 13). I read the Silm, UT, I bought as many books as I could find, and read them all.

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Re: My first time

I read the Hobbit and LotR in 1990... i was 12. Yeah, I'm a young Tolkien reader, but so were we all at one time or another.

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back in 1990, ages ago it seems, when I was a mere boy, I discovered russian translation (I did not speak inglish in those days) of 'THE HOBBIT' on my parents shelf. It was delightful! On a cover there was annotation, that Raduga publishers is preparing to publish other book by the same author - LOTR. My grandmother was going to Moscow than, and I asked her to bring me back this book. She really did find LOTR, but only two volumes - for some reason or another the translation of books V and VI was delayed till 1993. I read first four books in to nights (was awake for 40 hours or so) and than during two years was imaganing what happened next. after Shelob's Lair (It was pain close to pleasure). I remember the date - 21.02.1993 I was walking in a place in Tbilisi called &quot;dry bridge&quot; - what not of any kind is sold there - old books and cd-s, antics and so on, and saw the third volume. Tha man who was selling it wanted 500 r for a book. Usually i do bargain, and hard enough, but now the vendor was a bit surprised by very unususal customer ( I;m sure he thought me cracked) - I haven't money with me, so I said that i'd be back in half an hour, I'd give him 1000r and if, when I return, book is sold, he would be my enemy till the end of his days, wich would not be long. The same year I started to learn english, to read not translated stuff by JRRT (my basic foreign language in school was french), and here I am now <img src=smile.gif ALT=":)"> , living rather in Middle-Earth than there. what my family is used to call real life.

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LOL with that post I became pile of bones.

PS not only vendor thought me cracked, my father was sure my life will end up in an asilum - about twice a week I was calling in RadugaPublishers and sending letters asking when would the third volume appear. And he (my father) was angered a bit too - international calls are not too cheap <img src=smile.gif ALT=":)">

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Re: My first time

Welcome, Tovarish.<img src=smile.gif ALT=":)"> The name Tebilisi rings a bell but I don't recall where from. Do you still live in Russia? Have you read the Black Silmarillion?

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Thanks indeed <img src=smile.gif ALT=":)"> .Tbilisi is capital of Georgia, former soviet republic. I never lived in Russia, but russian is foreign language most familiar to me. I heard about &quot;Black Book of Arda&quot; , but i haven't read it. An author must be one named Nienna, if I am not mistaken. if you are football (european) fan, and old enough, you must remember name Tbilisi by 1982 UEFA Cup winners Cup, when Dynamo Tbilisi held a victory against Karlsrue of DDR and won above named cup. Maybe that's why name Tbilisi rings <img src=smile.gif ALT=":)"> or there (I hope) is some other reason<img src=smile.gif ALT=":)">

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Re: My first time

I experienced the Hobbit on film when I was young, so I picture Bilbo as they show him in the movie, here's the picture: http://www.timefold.com/rbhimages/rbh01.img.jpgwww.timefold.com/rbhimages/rbh01.img.jpg</a>

A few years ago, probably two, at school I was browsing through the book fair and there it was! I'd been meaning to read it and oh! I loved it. Then I reread it last summer and decided this year to find and read The Lord of the Rings. I just finished it yesterday! Oh it was beautiful, sad and happy both at the same time! One of my fave rhymes (one I have set a tune to and go around singing) is Sam's rhyme at the tower:
In western lands beneath the Sun,
the flowers may rise in Spring
the trees may bud, the waters run,
the merry finches sing
Or maybe tis' cloudless night and swaying beeches bear
the Elven-stars as jewels white
amid their branching hair

Though here at journey's end I lie
in darkness buried deep
beyond all towers strong and high
beyond all moutains steep
above all shadows rides the Sun
and Stars for ever dwell:
I will not say the Day is done,
nor bid the Stars fare well.

Ah, if you have a heart for beautiful words of this kind you live in Tolkien's world of mind


" In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit . . . " That's where it all began.</p>

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Re: My first time

I remember the first time I read Tolkien. Back in the summer before 6th grade I read The Hobbit. That was about three years ago. Ever since then I have loved Tolkien's works.

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my first encounter

I read The Hobbit in my own language, catalan, when I was 11 or 12 years old, in the 1980´s. It took me a whole year, because I lost (yes, I mean really lost) the book and I could not finish it since I found it again. I read The Lord of the Rings six or seven years ago, first in catalan and then in spanish (the translation is better). And two years ago, at last, I dared to read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings in english and it was one of the greatest experiencies I ever have had!



Far over the misty mountains cold,...Més enllà de les boiroses i fredes muntanyes,
vers coves velles i fondes masmorres,
ens cal partir abans de l´alba,
per rescatar de l´oblit el nostre or.

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my first encounter

Welcome Lorien de Loth! I agree I like the english translation best, but it looks very romantic in Catalan!

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Re: When did I read my first book?

1976, when I was 3.
I'm not sure I understood all of it though.

I first read The Hobbit in 1986, when I was 13.

I first read LotR in 1996, when I was 23.
I'm not sure I understood all of it though.
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Re: When did I read my first book?

I think this question may have been asked before or again, in a slightly different format. mwcfrodo says that he read LotR in 1965. I read it in either 1962 or 1963. It was recommended to me by a friend. I found The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring at the local library, finished them quickly and when I went back for more, somebody had the audacity to have The Two Towers checked out. I put in a hold on it and had to wait for it.

Mayhap I am the oldest here. I didn't read these books at age 11, I fear. I was in my early 30s when I discovered these books. I celebrate (I think) my 71st birthday this Sunday. Well, I know that I'm 71. It's the celebrate part that I'm confused about.

Tolkien's work is ageless, and seemingly so are all of us. It seems that we have made his writing a very important part of our life, no matter age or nationality.


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Re: When did I read my first book?

I read the Hobbit about 2 years ago, then tried to read LoTR. When I was about 80 or so pages into it, probably in the early 'Old Forest' chapters, I gave up. One year later I picked it up again, and made my way from the start back to where I was and got to about page 120, The Barrowdowns I think <img src=wink.gif ALT=";)"> I only finished it about 3 or 4 months ago. The Sil. was devoured a month later, and since then I have re-read LoTR and the Hobbit. Now with BoLT I and UT I'm having a ball. <img src=smile.gif ALT=":)">

I was 10 when I read the hobbit. The young and the old, Aldaron? <img src=biggrin.gif ALT=":D">

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Re: lets seeee......

My mom read me &quot;The Hobbit&quot;when I was eight,-then I tried it on my own but lost interest when Bilbo was trying to free the dwarves or somewhere in that part-,after mom read me it she told me about the lotr trilogy and I wanted her to read it to me but she said you wouldnt understand so I asked her to tell me about the charecters and stuff,and she did.
two years later I found the trilogy and tried to read them but lost interest in the first book of the third book-I wanted to find Sam and Frodo and see what happened to them-but a year later I read the whole thing and absolutly fell in love with the whole thing.
I've read lotr between 3 and 6 times,amd silma 1 -loved that too-
samwise of the shire
ps hey gamegie welcome to the barrowdowns forum were ya from?I mean were do ya live now?

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Re: lets seeee......

Hi, I'm new here, but I've been enjoying reading what everyone has to say on the Forum over the last few days, and finally want to join in. I feel like a novice though, compared to everyone here - you all seem to know so much!

I first got to know the Hobbit when i was small (5 or 6) when I had the tapes of Nicol Williamson reading the book. They were fantastic! Then I read the book when I was 8 or so. Then a year later I read LotR with my Dad (we took it in turns to read aloud) I think we gave up half way through, because the Radio series started (must have been 1980 or '82 - does anyone remember?) and overtook us! WE couldn't read fast enough. I really think of the radio seies when I think of LotR - I still have the tapes I made, and listen to them every now and again. 13 hours of crackles, but well worth it.

I've just started re-reading LotR though, and loving it. I'm currently on the Two Towers - Marry and Pippin are in Fangorn. I'd forgotten how funny the books are <img src=biggrin.gif ALT=":D">





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Re: lets seeee......

Welcome Elanor! We were all novices once, so don't be shy. Feel free to pipe up with questions or comments.

--Mithadan--
"The Silmarils with living light
were kindled clear, and waxing bright
shone like stars that in the North
above the reek of earth leap forth." </p>

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Re: lets seeee......

Wow, I would LOVE to hear Nicol Williamson read Tolkien. For those who don't recognize the name, he played a fantastic Merlin in Excalibur. It's from the 80's, so I guess some of you pipsqueaks might not have seen it -- but you should! Great movie. &quot;Dragon's breath!&quot; Haha!

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[Orald]

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Re: lets seeee......

I love his voice. BA little to menacing for LotR. LotR seems a bit cheerier, but his voice is just spectacular. Of course I thought the movie &quot;Excalibur&quot; was a little tangent from the way I had heard it told before.

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Re: lets seeee......

Nicol Williamson is fantastic. Of course, the Hobbit is much lighter than LotR, but NW is perfect. It's also really great to hear how the many different voices are clear, despite all being read by one person. It's always obvious who's speaking. Nicol Williamson uses several different accents and styles for the different races/creatures. I can't remember exactly what, but there were nice subtle differences there. I think Gollum was slightly Welsh - it made all the &quot;blessss us and splash us my preciousss&quot; very effective!

I wish I could download the tapes somehow so you could listen, but I'm afraid I just don't have the first idea how to do that...



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[red]

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Re: lets seeee......

Pipsqueaks? LOL <img src=laugh.gif ALT=":lol">

-réd

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"He was as noble and as fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer."</p>

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[Mister Underhill]

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Re: lets seeee......

Maybe half-pints would have been more politically correct? I'm sure sawed-off runts is worse...

Elanor -- maybe I can search on Napster or something. What kind of comp do you have? With the right hardware, you might be able to rip the tapes to .wav or .mp3 format using some FREE utilities that Gilthalion posted links to.

Durelen -- Nicol is a fine actor and has a nice comic sensibility to complement his menacing side. He has all the funniest moments in Excalibur and did a great comic turn as Little John in Robin and Marian (an even older and more obscure film than Excalibur) starring Sean Connery as Robin Hood, Audrey Hepburn as Marian, Richard Harris as Prince John, and Robert Shaw as the Sheriff of Nottingham. Coincidentally, Ian Holm had a part in the movie, as did Denholm Elliott, famous to most audiences as Marcus Brody of the Indiana Jones movies. I admit that R&amp;M is a bit slow and lackluster by modern standards, but you can't beat that cast!

Come to think of it, either Nicol or Richard Harris would have made a great Denethor.

Hey -- I just had a great idea (if I may be so bold!) for a game: Six Degrees of Lord of the Rings. Name an actor and see who can link him/her to LotR in the fewest steps. But should it go in the Quiz or the Movie section?

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[Orald]

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Re: lets seeee......

Yes, Denethor. In my mind I see him as an extremely wise and ancient recluse that is kinda good, but more middle of the road. I don't see anyone in LotR that is quite like that. I thought Saruman maybe could, but he is evil. Of course evil could be the way to go. I can definately see him as the Mouth of Sauron.

It seems fate is not without a sense of irony.</p>

[Fingolfin]

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Re: When did you read your first book?

I read the Hobbit in 3rd grade and the Lord of the Rings in 5th grade.

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Re: When did you read your first book?

i read LotR when i was 9 and then i read the hobbit when i was 10 and i read the silm last year

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[Aldaron]

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Re: lets seeee......

Gee, Nicol Williamson. I saw him in a live production of a play in London one time. A great actor. I wonder if his reading of The Hobbit is available anywhere now.

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Re: lets seeee......

Oh Lord, I saw that awful, awful cartoon version of the Hobbit as a child, but my mom was never a Tolkien fan (we all have our faults) so I didn't hear about the story again until High School. I read the Hobbit in 10th grade. I loved it but was too engrossed in Sherlock Holmes at the time to appreciate it. So, two years ago when I had no TV and I had read all of the interpretations of the Arthurian legend I could find, I finally picked up LoTR and read it all in about two weeks. Then I re-read it and this time I read the appendices. I was hooked, and read the Silmarillion over a weekend at home. Since then I have reread the LoTR at least three times. I'm starting with my second reading of the Sil. now, and I have the UT on my bookshelves, half read.

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Re: When did you read your first book?

I read The Hobbit about a year ago, and have re-read it and LOTR 3 times since then. I am just now reading The Sill. I had never read a book in my life before I read The Hobbit. <img src=smile.gif ALT=":)">

"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."</p>

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Re: When did you read your first book?

When I was 8 I started to read the Hobbit bu didn't understand it enough, so I gave up. Two years ago, I tried it again, and I loved it. I have read the Hobbit 3 times, LotR twice, the SIlmarillion Twice, and Unfinished Tales and BoLT 1.

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Re: My first time

I STARTED READY THE TOLKEIN WORKS AT THE AGE OF 11, NOT THAT LONG AGO CONSIDERING IM 12

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[Evenspire]

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First Book?

1973, I read the Hobbit while in Jr. High School, then the Lord of the Rings, then the hobbit again, then the Lord of the Rings 5, 6, 7 more times, then the Silmarilion the week it first came out. I lost count how many times I read the LOTR because I'd skip Bombadil and go straight to Bree, and skip Shelob, then look back and forth for favorite passages.

I'd have absorbed the Silmarilion better if the characters had names that didn't rhyme. I knew when I looked at the table of contents that I'd be in trouble before long.

All of the women in my family read the books and liked or loved them.


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when i read my first book

i suppose i read the hobbit when in 1994 when i was about 10/11 since then i just kept reading tolkien stuff i later on got intreasted in tolkien illustrations and use them a lot for my art work

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my first time

my first reading of tolkien was in 1968 while going to college in boston, ma. i started to read them anew this past week. what a wonderful journey awaits. 33 years later, what new insights will there be at this stage of my life?

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Re: My first time

I feel really like a kid now I'm only 13 going into 8th grade but I've read the the trilogy and the Hobbit about 5 times each, 6 for the trilogy, and i still dont completely understand it. I out did you all I first read LotR and the hobbit while i was in fourth grade, read it every year since and twice some.


the only cuban hobbit

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Re: When did you read your first book?

Few months ago.

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Re: When did you read your first book?

Well lets see here...

I can't remember the exact year but it was sometime in the mid to late 70s. My mom came home with 'The Hobbit' and gave it to me to read. Even though I had never heard of this book, it didn't take much for me to pick it up and read it as I was already an avid reader and it had a picture of Smaug with the burning town below him on the cover. This edition was kind of geared for kids as the text was a little larger and it had several still photos from the cartoon version. I was so enthralled with the book I think I read it three or four times in a row! I read it several more times over the years and I still have this book even though its very tattered and worn.

A couple years later I discovered that Tolkien had written the LotR so I set off to the local library and read all three books in about a month. I also read these books over and over especially after I got my own books.

Only read the Silmarillion twice, and the second time I used the Atlas of Middle Earth as a companion book.

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Re: When did you read your first book?

Welcome to the Barrow-downs Malagaerion!
Nice web I.D.!

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[Donlammenion]

i read my first lotr book when i was about 7 or 8 it was a full edition hard back copy of lotr then about a year later i discovered the untamed joys of the silmerillion and then the hobbit

[Sirithheruwen]

My dad read me The Hobbit when i was 4 or 5, but i read LOTR when I was 8. (I've always been a bookworm!)

[Meela]

Wow, I would LOVE to hear Nicol Williamson read Tolkien. For those who don't recognize the name, he played a fantastic Merlin in Excalibur.

I adore that movie. He did a fantastic job.

The Hobbit: aged 3.

I haven't read any other books. Not properly.

[Ophelia]

I read my first book when I was 1year or so but I read it upside-down smilies/biggrin.gif
OK , OK . I heard "The Hobbit" a really really long time ago . I was 3 I think but the illustartions were so frightining that I was afraid to open the book . No , seriously they are ugly .

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

I first read The Hobbit when I was 7 (I think), and LOTR when I was nine, and every year since then. I read The Silm when I was ten (I'm pretty sure) and again when I was twelve. Other books: I don't remember. I've read the Hobbit probably at least five times.

[elven maiden Earwen]

I read LOTR, Sil, nad the Hobbit all last year when I was 11. I also read UT, and the BOLT part one and two last year as well. smilies/biggrin.gif

[Gandalf the Headbanger]

hey im new here...just signed up....but the first i read LOtR...was about a year ago during the first part of my freshmen year...ah...they were so good...i am currently re-reading Fellowship...its great!

[Orothoniel]

I was 8 when my mother gave me the Hobbit to read. I was 12 when I readed Lotr. I readed the Silmarillion when I was 15.

[Oliphaunts_Rule]

I was ten (?) when my dad read "The lord of the rings" aloud. I fell asleep through the whole thing.
I have just started the books and I think they are reallllllyyyyy COOOOLLLLLL. smilies/smile.gif

[Yavanna228]

I do believe it was Christmas of 2000 that my mother bought me a combined edition of LOTR. Actually, she first bought me the audio tapes of Tolkien reading LOTR, but in my foolishness I had her take them back because I wanted the books so I could read and re-read parts that either interested me or that I had forgotten and needed for a later passage. I should have kept the tapes and bought the books myself. I had no idea how much I would value a recording of Tolkien reading his own works. Pronunciation alone is worth getting the tapes. smilies/smile.gif
So, I suppose, if we are giving ages, I would have been 13 at that time, but the rather large tome frightened me off for awhile until I was on a long trip and needed something to read. smilies/smile.gif And the rest, as they say, is history.
Peace

[Imladris]

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. smilies/rolleyes.gif 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. smilies/biggrin.gif

[Genevieve]

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.

[The Elusive Spirit]

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.

[Elennar Starfire]

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.

[Hirilaelin]

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!

***HIRILAELIN***

[Novberaid]

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.

[Amarantha_Daisy]

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. smilies/biggrin.gif I read TTT and RotK right aftZ

[Kaiserin]

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. smilies/tongue.gif

[THE Ka]

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... smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/wink.gif

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[lossenlithiel]

I read it when I just turned 11. I'm 15 now, and have read them all about 15 times since

[Gloruviel]

i read it when the first movie came out (i had to read it b4 i could c the movie).

[Manardariel]

I love these threads because I read my first Tolkien book when I was FOUR! *waits for stares* I´m special! Hahaha! smilies/wink.gif smilies/smile.gif

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. smilies/smile.gif

[Everdawn]

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...

[Idunn]

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.

[Everdawn]

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.

[Elwen_starmaiden]

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 smilies/tongue.gif 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!