It's nice to know this, some of your stories are really fascinating, just a little moment in life, without intention or even with other intention you come to thing which influences you for the rest of your life!
My story is not as shocking. When I was about 7, my older cousin taught our family on holidays to play role-playing games, at first it was lesser local version of Dungeon's and Dragons. Being 7 years old, I didn't have much reason out of it, but it caught me. Later then, he received Iron Crown Enterprise's Lord of the Rings roleplaying game as present, and I got it year later as Christmas present. It was interesting, and I wanted to read the books which there were quoted. My grandmother is a librarian, so you could guess the rest. I first read the Hobbit, in which Bilbo's poem against the spiders got me laughing and shaking down on the floor. My grandmother then supplied me with my own books so that even other visitors of the library could gain access to them
The only thing I might mention about that good woman is that she never got the books' names straight and she thought that the name of the first part of the Trilogy was Lord of the Rings and second Lord of the Tower (I never asked her what she thought was the name of the third.)
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Originally Posted by Nogrod
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.
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That Finnish version really had illustrations from Tove Jansson?!?!!! MAN... THAT'S UNBELIEVABLE! I want it!!!
