[Legate of Amon Lanc]

I was into reading and writing before Tolkien, and you could even call my attempts of writing "fantasy" to a large part. I actually became aware of Tolkien from large part only because of the word "Hobbit", as my first encounter with fantasy itself was in the form of one RPG, a Czech game akin to Dungeons and Dragons (a simplified copy of that), where among other races, there was "hobbit". Never encountering that before, you can imagine I found it quite surprising and funny that somebody wrote a book of that name. Of course only later I realised that it was the race that was taken from the book, and not vice versa.

I believe there was a similar thread (or more, actually) related to this topic, by the way, as I recall writing on them (certainly there was at least one like "how did you come to LotR" and then another one whose name I forgot, but its topic was a lot similar to this, something like how or whether did LotR affect the subjects you are interested in, like I recall for example people writing there that it nudged them to study English or old languages or literature or stuff like that).