The Tolkien Under Age Club

[ninja91]

Originally Posted by Durelin

Anyway, I was thinking how I feel so incapable or unintelligent when I see these people who have read LotR at age 7 or 8, and have read it numerous times since then. I didn't read it until I was twelve, and I haven't read but pieces of it since! And yet I sit around on this forum and think I can talk about it and write about characters in ME! Am I really justified?

Of course you are, Durelin. To tell the truth, I have never even read the Lord of the Rings or the Silmarillion all the way through, yet I know just enough to contribute here, thankfully...