My dad absolutely loves Tolkien, so he got me started with The Hobbit when I was about eight. We would read it together every night before bed. When I was nine or ten, we started reading The Lord of the Rings together. I was really excited about it, and I even did a school project on Tolkien when I was in Sixth Grade (too bad no one else in the class had any idea who Tolkien was. Seriously, even the teacher, when I said who I was doing the project on, was like, "Who??")
Miellien - all I can really recommend to you is to judge by when you think your son is ready, as opposed to when it's still too early. But I wouldn't stress too much about it. There were some things that I was too young to appreciate in The Lord of the Rings the first time around; it's no big deal, I picked them up when I read it again.
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