[ArathorofBarahir]

I remember it like it was yesterday. The day was Thursday December 20th, and I had just gotten home from school (I was a sophomore in high school at the time) and turned on MTV and on there was the Making the Movie Lord of the Rings the Fellowship of the Ring \ and I was hooked. So I had my mom take me to the mall and get me the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, all three in one book and I read the Hobbit by Saturday morning, was finished with the Fellowship by sunday around lunch-time afterwhich I went to the movies and saw FOTR for the first of seven times and after that I came home and was finished reading the whole thing by the day after Christmas. By far, these memories I will never forget.