When I was about ten or eleven years old, I went into my older brother's room looking for a book to read (I did a lot more reading then than I do now and my brother had a huge collection of paperbacks for a teenager.) I came across three books by the same author with fascinating cover art derived from this
Barbara Remington poster. I wondered what kind of story could possibly lie behind such imagry. I read
The Lord of the Rings straight through, and immediately read it all again. I think it was some time later that I finally read
The Hobbit . That was almost forty years ago, and Tolkien is still my favorite author.