When did I first read LOTR?
 

I'm proud to say I first read the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings at the age of 9!
Not that I understood LOTR, my dad just gave me the Hobbit and I saw "If you are interested in hobbits you'll learn more in the Lord of the Rings..." and I thought I might as well, read it, and by the time I picked it up again I had forgotten basically all of it. But still, go me.
Soon I'll finish The Silmarillion...

I'm sad to say, I thought LotR was a bad movie until I was 12...thats when my parents finally let me watch them...and I fell in love! Then I read the books. Tolkien's best book is by far the Silmarillion, and I think the Hobbit is his second best.

It was when I was like 12 or 13. My dad borrowed the 1970's cartoon movie of TLOTR, I liked it. Then read the book. Then we saw The Hobbit cartoon movie, then I read that.

I've been hooked eversince and we all were very pleased when Peter Jackson made his films. We weren't dissapointed.

A captivating world
 

Well, I saw the film version of The Fellowship of the Ring. I fell in love with the world, and got absorbed into fantasy. They are my favorite movies of complete all time, and the books are up therer with my favorites. It also introduced me with other great fantasy, such as TOR and Forgotten Realms. J.R.R. Tolkien and R.A. Salvatore are the masters of fantasy. Represent! :D