How old were you the first time you read LOTR?

[Lalwendë]

I was 12 - so it says in my very first message, just posted - and I won't ever forget first reading it! I pinched it from my brother, and it took me a couple of weeks because I enjoyed it so much I made sure I read it really slowly, so as not to accidentally miss anything!

I used to take it to school and sneak into the cloakroom and hide every break so I could read in peace. When I emerged from the book, my friends were horrified to find I had been changed utterly! I got so much from it - I got into linguistics, mythology, folklore, weaponry, the list goes on... I also got into bother for spoiling the book spines...

[Lindalirien O Lorien]

I was nine when I first read the Hobbit. When I was ten I picked up the Fellowship of the Ring for the first time. I have read all three of the books over the past four year several times. Now I am fourteen and just picked up the Silmarillon yesterday. (I know it took me so long to finally start it but I've been reading other books lately) I am on chapter five or six (can't remember at the moment) and love it already.

[mark12_30]

Hobbit: 11. LOTR: 12.

That was thirty years ago.

Middle-Earth was my "neighborhood" that I grew up in. Good neighbors.

[Fingolfin II]

I was 10 when I first read the Hobbit and 12 when I read LoTR. I read The Return of the King first, then the Fellowship, then TTT. I only read RoTK because of Gandalf and Frodo, so I abandoned it. When I turned 13 I read all the books again and loved it. I read the Sil when I was 14, as well as Lost Tales and the Quenta. I'm 15 now.

haahaa im still on the 4th chapter of the fellowship... ...i liek the movie better

[DarkRose]

I was about.. 11 when my dad first tried to read FotR to me. (It sort of a family tradition to read the LotR books to the kids when they get old enough. ;D) We got a bit into it, up until the Tom Bombadil area, when I decided to quit. I know, I know. I suppose I just wasn't ready.

After seeing the FotR movie a couple of years ago, I was inspired to give the books another try. I was 13, then. I picked up Fellowship, finished it, loved it. Picked up Towers, finished it, loved it. Picked up Return, loved it, finished it. This took about a year.

So, I read LOTR from age 13 to age 14. It was a marvelous experience.

[Miriel Undomiel]

I bought LotR after my confirmation. I had then just turned 14. Read the Hobbit and the Silmarill right after I finished LotR.

[starkat]

I didn't read the LotR until this past December. I have since read The Hobbit and The Simarillion and am working on The Unfinished Tales.

I read the FotR at 14 as a liturature project in High school. That was quite a few years ago. Managed to get one of the First Printing, First Edition hard bound Silms when they hit the shelves, actually had one pre-ordered at the book store, got the 4th one out of the box! Have not read much in the HoME set yet.

[Silent Sam]

On my eighth Christmas, I recieved the whole LOTR hardcover trilogy including The Hobbit, from my aunt. She said I needed something new to read (I've read every book in my house at least 5 times over, and I read books that are much higher than my age level : Crime and Punishment, etc. I don't do it on purpose, I just prefer them over kids books... )

I finished them by the early summer.

[starkat]

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I'm a recent LotR fan.

[samwise8504]

i was about 16 when i read the lord of the rings and the hobbit but ive only just read the silmarillion

Hobbit~6

FotR (1st attempt)~7

FotR (2nd attempt)~9

TTT~9

RotK~9

Sil.~ 11

HoME~12

UT1~12

UT2~12

[Amanaduial the archer]

Lol, very detailed, Smeagol!