My youngest sister tried to read the hobbit and quit (??how??)
Odd thing is, my brother introduced me to Tolkien and he dislikes it now. Thinks I'm nuts for reading it so much..
... Oh hey! I've got another question for all of you: How old were you when you first read the books? (including the hobbit)
I read the hobbit as one of the first books I read. I must have 7 or 8. at 9 I read the Fellowship of the ring and it took me 2 days to read through TTT the first time, and RotK followed. by the time the movies came out, I was 11 and had read the trilogy
I read them every year or more since, and have gotten through most of the Silmarillion just recently (I can't BELIEVE I never read it earlier!!!!
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