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					Originally Posted by Elladan and Elrohir
					
				 
				 I started Fellowship and was COMPLETELY hooked.  Mesmerized in the world of Middle-Earth.  The only thing I skimmed while reading it for the first time was the Council of Elrond chapter, in which I was completely lost after about two pages of monologues.  But I plunged forward, and, in less than a week, I had finished LOTR. 
			
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  You are a person of my own heart, Elladan and Elrohir! 

 I skimmed a few other parts such as the first chapter in my first reading, but never fear, I have gone back and re-read...
I also read Lord of the Rings when I was 12, three years ago but blissfully unaware of the films' almost imminent arrival about four months later. I read the hobbit several years before though, when I was in year three or four in primary school - so at about eight years old.