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I'm a Bakshi Recruit Edain I suppose, having had my first taste of Middle Earth in the television movie of The Hobbit. I read TH after seeing the movie, and then spent a long time wondering about the "further adventures" with the Ring that were mentioned at the end of the movie, but not the book. I was still pretty young then, and the sheer size of LotR kept me well away from it (probably for the best).
I then saw the Bakshi cartoon and decided that waiting was for losers and tackled LotR despite its size -- which was greater than anything I'd read before by an order of magnitude. It took me the better part of six months to get through the thing, but get through it I did. . .even the "boring bits."
I'd like to think that in the time since I have become something more than an Edain, however. Perhaps we can add a new category:
Half-Elven: one who has successfully married their Edain experience of the books to deeper lore and become an Elf-friend; one who is of both worlds at once, and yet not belonging to either fully; who has the choice to join those in the West, and thus repudiate their childhood selves who fell in love with the movies, or embrace those early experiences and remain mortal.
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Scribbling scrabbling.
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