Hello
Im back from my vacation. Im a female. Ill be 29 in July. I didnt really start being obsessed with LOTR until December of last year.

Feeling the group pressure to reveal my age, I finally give in and admit that I'm only 16. And as the brighter ones would guess I'm a male. (I mean, who many females go by the name of Daniel?)

[ June 02, 2002: Message edited by: Daniel Telcontar ]

I am only 12(but you probably knew that already)

Just human aged 34 (will be 35 next Monday) So "Happy Birthday" song is welcome [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
I first got hold of the "Lord of the Rings" in 1985 (how old was I then?)I loved it at once because it was so different from what I had read before - entire new world, mysterious peoples(?)and lands, noble characters, heroic quest, love and sacrifice. None of my friends somehow are really keen on the book, though many have read it. When I'm asked now what I have found in it, I really can't put it in words. It's all on the level of emotions (do I sound like a grown-up?) I just love it !!!

ME age is... oh, say, about 389. Pretty young.
Reality- Elf female, 14

akhtene, Welcome! Happy b-day, have fun and post lots! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

I am a 25 yr old male from Adelaide, Australia.

I discovered Tolkien when I was 13. I have my own personal library of 500+ books all to do with fantasy. Some books I have read 50+ like the hobbit and LOTR.

I'm 13 going to 14 in December (Aarghhh! So long!!) and am a female.
So far I've only seen a fellow malaysian here which is Avarrogion.
I STILL haven't read the Hobbit yet!
hahahahha
But I've finished LOTR and the Silmarillion.

I'm 14&11 months and female. I read the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings in late Sept. through early Oct. And I think my fav. parts are at The Old Forest, Tom Bombadil's house, Bree, and at Ithilien.(Oh and at the celebration of the Ringbearers [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] )

~M
P.S. Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear akhtene, happy birthday to you. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Female, 17. Was...15 when I discovered The Hobbit in the school library. Didn't make connection between Hobbit and LOTR until this past Christmas. lol.

Female, 14. Discovered Tolkien um, *counts fingers* 6 months. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Female, 13 , discovered Tolkein when I was around 7 or so, The Hobbit, then my dad wouldn't let me read LotR, saying it was too hard. Finally he let me with the movie was coming out.

Male 32
read the Hobbit 10, Finished LOTR by 14 (had to get them from the library) and read Silm at 17.

Happy Birthday, akhtene!

Well, I guess I'll have to step forward as well. I'm female, 24. Actually FOTR opened on my b-day so you can probably imagine the b-day party. And it's going to be this year as well.
I first discovered Tolkien..... Hmmm, actually I don't remember. Would you believe that? The books have just always been there. Though I haven't owned them myself until recently.

[ June 07, 2002: Message edited by: Maikadilwen ]

i turn 17 4th july
me be boy

Hey Durdo, welcome to the Downs! Your new right? Well, oh well if your not, I'm gonna say hi anyway! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Hullo there, Dûrdo! Welcome! Stick around an' post lots!

Earth:im Female 15 born in Ireland moved to Kentucky
Middle-Earth: im female 2000[at FotR] born in Rivendell but moved to Mirkwood.Elf.

hey alkanoonion i was born and raised in australia (vic.) and we went on vacations to adelaide it's beautiful there haven't been there for almost eight years. ::sigh:: Ahhhhhhh... i miss that. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] *mind drifts in lovely walk down memory lane*

*sings* .::I dig my toes into the sand.......::.

*cough* uh where was i...

15 ( will be 16 in agust, ahhhhh!!!! nervous [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] iceland. discovered LotR at 13

[ June 14, 2002: Message edited by: Lady_Báin ]

Lady Bain, You live in Iceland?

Hum, last post back in June....any newer folks like to add to this thread? [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Female, 38. Discovered Tolkien thanks to Ranking and Bass's The Hobbit cartoon. Began reading soon after. Was given LOTR at 11, ignored them till 13-16 yrs, adored them! Took specialty English course, FOTR, got an A in high school. Met fellah who liked to read them aloud, was hooked completely. Read Sil on my own, Unfinished tales at the library - brought tissues, people thought I was nuts...
Continuing to read...all .... gosh, it gets harder as you delve deeper! I love it though.

Hullo everyone! i was reading all of the posts and it seems its been a while since people have posted here. anyway, i'm fourteen yearsold and of course, a female. i read "The Hobbit" when i was seven yearsold, but i wasn't very interested in it, not to mention didn't have a clue what they were talking about (who could blame me? i was seven!). anyway, i discovered the wonderful world of Tolkien a few months ago and i just finished reading "FOTR" and "The Unfinished Tales", right now i'm reading the "Silmarillion". I'm already obsessed with LOTR and i still haven't read "TTT" and "ROTK". Nice to meet everyone and i'm happy to say i love being dead at the Barrow Downs!

[ September 04, 2002: Message edited by: LadyElbereth ]

I'm 13, female. First read LotR (ok, i actually read the hobbit first) when i was 12... not that long ago [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

[ October 11, 2002: Message edited by: Artilien ]

I suppose I need to put my two pennies worth in.

All I am going to say is that I grew up with the Don Bluth's(sp? must forgive me) version of the Hobbit. I am also younger then the mountains and two years older then my car. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Tirned Tinnu, welcome to the 'Downs! Rankin-Bass' "The Hobbit"--yep. My first inrtroduction to Tolkien too---watched it several times over my childhood though that version of Gollum really creeped me out....
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[ September 04, 2002: Message edited by: Samwise ]

Question: why is it that people from Ireland move to Kentucky? My grandparents and Great Grandparents mirgated from Ireland to Kentucky in the 1800's.

HowEVERdid I miss this thread for so long! *slaps herself on the forehead*

I'm a female - aged 20, read the Hobbit at 10 and LOTR at 18. Still waiting to get my hands on the Silm, need more money though...

Hey, we gals are the majority here!
Girlpower! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

I am 15 years old and discovered Tolkien about 5 months ago. I have read Lotr 6 times and the Sil three times; pretty good, huh?

Hullo everyone !

I am about as old as child of the 7th age, so she`s not the only "grandmother" on the downs!
The difference is, I only discovered Tolkien last year, with 5O ! I now wonder why on earth I hadn`t heard about him before, (I read a lot of English books and I stayed in England in the USA in the seventies, but none of my friends and teachers mentioned him...)
It seems that nearly everybody else started reading Tolkien as teenagers. Well, better late than never !!
It was really through my son (then 15)who read LotR (in German) that I became interested. I read the Hobbit, found it delightful, read LotR and was immediatly spellbound! Hardly ever have I been so moved and fascinated by any book. Since then I read anything by or on Tolkien that I can lay hands on. I finished the Silmarillion, read "Tree and leaf", a biography, then Tom Shippey`s "Tolkien , author of the century". Now I`ve ordered and got Tolkiens letters (after so many interesting quotations from these here on the downs i decided I MUST have them) and next I`ll read UT.
None of my friends shares my craze, so I`m ever so glad to have discovered the Barrowdowns!

Hope I haven`t bored you with this too long post... Namarië ! Guinevere

I'm female and 15, 16 on October 1st though!!! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] I read The Hobbit age 13 in my English class because my teacher really liked it. After that I read LotR on my teachers recommendation and loved it. I read the Silm only recently and am currently half way though UT!!! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

i'm 13, but i'm gonna be 14 on October 23rd (yay!)... i discovered Tolkien in grade 4 when we watched the animated movie and the teacher read it to our class (she didn't read the last chapter for some reason, though, and I waited about a year until I got it from the library and read the rest of it [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] ).
I heard about LotR when my brother got into the books.. hmm... I guess 3 years ago.. I'm not sure. Anyway, I thought he was kinda dorky for being so obsessed over a series of books, and now that I'm obsessed with them he thinks I'm the dork!
Anyway, I started reading LotR about two weeks before the movie came out in theatres, and I finished in mid-March (I know, this seems like a long time, but I kinda stopped reading FotR for a couple weeks after I saw the movie. But I read RotK in 5 days, so there! [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img])
I'm gonna read the Silm as soon as I can get a copy! (Must..get...money....)

(hope I haven't bored you all to life with this post [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img])

[ September 06, 2002: Message edited by: Galadrie1 ]

Wow! And I thought I had a lot of books! Lucky you. I could never find enough time to read that much.

Anyways, I'm a female 14 year old and am in 9th grade in my junior high school. I began reading The Hobbit the day before FOTR premiered and finished that book and LOTR in about 10 days.

Hi! 13-Female....Yay! I'm a big eighth grader now...I've loved lotr since I was...uhhh, well I got the books for my 12th birthday from my dad so...a year and a half? I don't know. But I always thought it was cool because one of my favorite teachers (Language arts, 7th grade) started putting up all his old pictures and posters of lotr a few months before the movie came out, and ALL the other teachers started getting into it too, so now I know that kids may actually have something in common with those people! Wow.

I'm female and 18.

Hey Frieda,is that your real name?just wondering, cause that is my name too, and its not very common, especially the way we spell it..... oh, I am 13!

Lo all,i am male ,15,i found LOTR a year ago....Rate me pls =P

hellu! i am 14, 15 on oct. 28th....wow a lot of you have b-days in oct.!
neway, i was in 8th grade when the High School was goin to put on The Hobbit play. *i really admired the guy who played Bilbo!!!!* and i decided to read the book, so i would understand it. then, the next month, lotr: fotr was coming out, and i thought i would only like The Hobbit, so didn't read it until Dec. (a month later [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] ) it then when i found out that's where i get my traits of height, hairy feet, curly hair, and nervousness around any "big people"!
All of you who got to read it in english, i greatly envy you!!!! [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img] I would get a 111 A+ if i did anything to do w/ Tolkien! (instead of Anne Frank or the Red Badge of Courage!!!! [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] )
Maybe one day my teachers will understand any Tolkien books are the only books to read! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

by the way, i'm very mad i wasn't a fressman when they did that play!!!! [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img] [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img] [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img]

Hi, I'm male and I just turned 18, and I did The hobbit first and then the other books.