when did you read lotr for the first time?

[Thinlómien]

I read it for the first time around eight or nine years ago, I was eight ears old back then. That wasn't, however, my first LotR experience; I had seen the Bakshi cartoon before and the book had been read aloud to me a few years earlier.

It took me from late spring to early autumn to read the book and still bears marks from being carried everywhere. I also remember reading it in my grandparents' place and falling asleep on the book since I was so tired and it was so late, but I didn't want to stop reading. I still remember that the chapter which I was reading was The Great River.