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Dilettante · 02-09-2011, 07:15 PM

My dad would mention The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit in passing for as long as I could remember......I would always roll my eyes and pass them off as "one of Dad's kitschy science fiction novels". (NOTE: That was before I became a sci-fi fan myself. Mind your words, you may eat them some day.)

When I was in the hospital once (I was about 14 or 15 at the time) my dad read the first part of The Fellowship of the Ring to me. I was mildly interested, but didn't give the story much thought afterward.

My dad had been telling me The Fellowship of the Ring was about to become a movie a good month or two before it came out. About a week before the movies came out (December 2001) I passed my dad's battered old paperbacks on the bookshelf (you know, the tan paperbacks with the Eye and the ring script on the front in the red slipcase, I think they are second edition Allen & Unwin but I'm not sure) and thought "Hmm...maybe I will give these a try.

I.......WAS.......HOOKED

It's been a great nine years ever since that day.

02-09-2011, 07:15 PM	#17
Dilettante Animated Skeleton Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: As my whimsey takes me. Posts: 43	My dad would mention The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit in passing for as long as I could remember......I would always roll my eyes and pass them off as "one of Dad's kitschy science fiction novels". (NOTE: That was before I became a sci-fi fan myself. Mind your words, you may eat them some day.) When I was in the hospital once (I was about 14 or 15 at the time) my dad read the first part of The Fellowship of the Ring to me. I was mildly interested, but didn't give the story much thought afterward. My dad had been telling me The Fellowship of the Ring was about to become a movie a good month or two before it came out. About a week before the movies came out (December 2001) I passed my dad's battered old paperbacks on the bookshelf (you know, the tan paperbacks with the Eye and the ring script on the front in the red slipcase, I think they are second edition Allen & Unwin but I'm not sure) and thought "Hmm...maybe I will give these a try. I.......WAS.......HOOKED It's been a great nine years ever since that day. __________________ "One equal temper of heroic hearts,Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. " Tennyson, Ulysses