i found The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings in my mom's collection of books when i was ten...(1980)
i basically devoured every book we ever had in the house and eventually came across her old Tolkien paperbacks....
i didn't reread any of them until i heard the movies would be made and for some reason i seemed to remember Legolas and Boromir as two elves in the fellowship, lol....don't ask me why....
so only after 21 years did i manage to discover the true identity of Boromir again and then The Silmarillion in its entirety, i had started it along with the other books when i was ten, but evidently i wasn't up for it then....
and i have yet to complete Unfinished Tales...but i'll get around to it one day [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
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“For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
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