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Hungry Ghoul
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Re: Describe the 1st time you read LotR.
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The first time I read LOTR was in my mother tongue. I read it vorasciously within few days (I usually read not too much at a time in order to savour the moment more); the story really sucked myself into it. Still, I considered it 'only' a story, albeit the best I have ever read.
Approximately one year later I read it in English. Due to the native tongue of the novel, and maybe due to other circumstances, the book unfolded a wonderful magic that time; the rational side of myself which normally would follow the storyline was somehow already satisfied as I knew the book, so I could - unintentionally though- pay more attention to the moving emotional side of it. And moved I was heavily...and thus one thing led into another.
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