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Kaiserin · 10-14-2003, 05:46 AM

I was around ten years old myself when I was first acquainted with LOTR (that was a real long time ago...) I discovered The Hobbit a year later. I don't think age ten is "too early" to get started on Tolkien. Some parents even read bits of LOTR to their preschoolers at bedtime.

Hello miellien: [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Even if your boy is young, I'm sure he will fall in love with the story, the charactes and Middle-Earth itself - even if he misses the subtle clues and undertones. One needen't be the overly intelligent and perceptive type. Anyway, if there would be some things that he may be "too young" to grasp, he can always re-read and re-read the books, delving deeper into Tolkien-dom as his mind matures.

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Digging with the dead,
Kaiserin

10-14-2003, 05:46 AM	#28
Kaiserin Wight Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Cair Paravel Posts: 150	I was around ten years old myself when I was first acquainted with LOTR (that was a real long time ago...) I discovered The Hobbit a year later. I don't think age ten is "too early" to get started on Tolkien. Some parents even read bits of LOTR to their preschoolers at bedtime. Hello miellien: [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Even if your boy is young, I'm sure he will fall in love with the story, the charactes and Middle-Earth itself - even if he misses the subtle clues and undertones. One needen't be the overly intelligent and perceptive type. Anyway, if there would be some things that he may be "too young" to grasp, he can always re-read and re-read the books, delving deeper into Tolkien-dom as his mind matures. It's great to be back at the 'Downs! Digging with the dead, Kaiserin __________________ The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.