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Actually, when I was nine or so, we went to our Christmas dinner, and my cool-but-wierd D&D-playing uncle (who incidentally, also formed his own grunge rock band, went to Poland for a couple of years, and is just generally interesting...) bought along a LOTR board game.
It kinda ticked me off because everyone else knew the characters and I had only read the Hobbit, wondering why in the world they were trying to destroy the Ring, and who the hell Frodo was. And that spurred me a bit to read about Frodo as all four of my uncles told me a watered-down version of the story.
I started LOTR when I was nine, and only finished it a year later. (Phew!) And of course many years later NOW I know a heap more about Middle-Earth than them. I can still brag about how I know what 'Gondolin' means in three different languages... hehehehe...
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