[Anguirel]

Undoubtedly me. My parents both read the Hobbit but failed to get further (my mother, now a novelist, couldn't endure the word "eleventy-one"), my brother's favoured reading matter is "Which Car" magazine, and my sister has only seen the films, partly in order to declare how paltry they are, partly, of course, because she likes to watch them.

I got my mother to watch the films. She was impressed by the architecture and landscapes, enamoured of Viggo, but scared of the Orcs and the violence...