Describe the 1st time you read LotR.

[Eruwen]

Oh, wow. It was almost a year ago. I started actually the day after Christmas last year. I jumped in with the Fellowship head first. It was so amazing reading something that extraordinary. I had never read anything that deep and thrilling in my entire life! {My life, of course, only being a little over 15 years long. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] }

It was kind of slow at first. But once I got to around the 3rd chapeter in the Fellowhip of the Ring, I could not put it down. The only time I had to read it was at night right before I went to sleep. So I remember sitting at school and at basketball games and places like that just waiting until I got home and I could start reading it again. I was so into the story.

I got done with the Fellowship around a month later. The day I finished that book, I had to beg my mom to take me to go get the second one. I just couldn't wait at all. And it was the same thing all over again with that book. I think I was a little more into this book though than the first one because I had gotten sort of...attached to the characters. I remember when I finished the second book, I sat on my bed screaming, literally, about how it ended. I was so mad that it ended like that.

My mom wouldn't let me go get the 3rd book for a while. So I sat forever waiting to see what happened to Frodo, he being my favorite character at the time. It wasn't until another month later when I got the 3rd book! I got it on a Saturday, and I had finished it the next day. I literally did not put it down. I read about 2 chapters on that saturday, and I spent my whole Sunday afternoon reading that book. It was so good.

At the end of the book, sadly though, I almost started to cry. Not just because Frodo had left Middle Earth and everything was sad, but because it felt like I was leaving Middle Earth. It was like I had been in that wonderful world so long, and now I had to leave. When I read the last words...

He drew a deep breath. "Well, I'm back," he said.

I felt so sad and lonely. I remember saying to myself "It's over. I'm finished. I cannot believe it just ended like that." It almost felt like a part of me was missing. Like the story had captured part of my soul. After that moment, as often as I could, I spent my days re-reading the books and searching for websites about it just to learn more of this magical land called Middle Earth. And here I am. Still on this site searching and searching for more information just to thrill me and take me back to that place J.R.R. Tolkien created.