My father read me the Hobbit when I was very young, about six or seven, or something. It was on the 70's. The Finnish version had just appeared and the book was heavily abridged with many character names twisted to ring a children-book -flavour. But the world (and the story) immersed me and the illustrations (by Tove Jansson, the author of the Moomin-books) were just mind-boggling. I got caught then... even with a fake of a kind.
