When did you read your first book? - Page 3 - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Imladris · 07-27-2003, 09:32 PM

I'm not sure when I read The Hobbit, but I think I was around 10. A few months after that I read that (?), I read LOTR a couple of times. Then I found out that there was a movie coming out and got confused with Arwen and Eowyn, so I read the books again to clear up that confusion. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] After I watched the movie, my love for the books was renewed and I have read them around five times over the course of the last two years. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Genevieve · 07-29-2003, 01:15 PM

My friends had read the books before the movies, and were always telling me to read them. When Fotr came out, I read The Hobbit, got exited, and read Fotr and TTT. I haven't read Rotk yet, but am planning on it as soon as I have time and energy.

The Elusive Spirit · 07-31-2003, 12:08 PM

I only started to read FOTR after the movie came out. Be fore the movie my brother started to read it and my friend said it was really good. I had read the first and second book by the time the movie came out on DVD. Now I'm hooked.

Elennar Starfire · 07-31-2003, 02:25 PM

My dad started reading a chapter of The Hobbit to me every night for a bedtime story when I was about five, and after we finished that he read LotR.

Hirilaelin · 08-01-2003, 03:32 PM

My father brought us back a copy of The Hobbit from a business trip when I was about five, and mum read it out loud to us. Over the years, it's been read countless times, and is now falling apart. It's still my favorite book!

***HIRILAELIN***

Novberaid · 08-10-2003, 04:07 PM

RE: MY FIRST TIME

I read The Lord of the Rings in 1979. Each time I read it I pass it on to someone else. Then I can buy a new copy for myself and read it again.

Amarantha_Daisy · 08-10-2003, 09:21 PM

Hmmmm... I read The Hobbit when I was in the sixth grade, about 5 years ago, and I loved it so my parents bought me The Lord of the Rings boxed set. I started FotR, but never got passed the first chapter. I was a sad, sick child.

After the movie came out, I picked it up again and read through it pretty quickly. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] I read TTT and RotK right aftZ

Kaiserin · 08-12-2003, 05:38 PM

I read the Hobbit when I was in sixth grade too! ... that was fifteen years ago.
The year before that, I got ahold of the LOTR trilogy.
Anyway, it's great to know I'm not the only non-teenager here. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

THE Ka · 08-12-2003, 06:02 PM

Well, let's see... ok, when i first read the lotr series i was about 11... i had to because for a english project we had to pick a book on fantasy, and my group chose the two towers,then keep a journal on what we thought about the author and book. Of, course i had only read the hobbit, so i only had three weeks to read the first book! thank god my friend had read the series 3 times at least... i have to say thought that i though that the books were excellent and i was surprised at how well they were written. I myself having been only eleven,and didn't understand most of what was going on entil later, but i thought it was a masterpeice... [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many have there been that have tried it. - Herman Melville, MobyDick

08-15-2003, 05:14 PM

I read it when I just turned 11. I'm 15 now, and have read them all about 15 times since

08-27-2003, 12:57 PM

i read it when the first movie came out (i had to read it b4 i could c the movie).

Manardariel · 08-27-2003, 01:13 PM

I love these threads because I read my first Tolkien book when I was FOUR! *waits for stares* I´m special! Hahaha! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

It was the Father Christmas Letters- I totally loved that book when I was small...next was Roverandom, when I was six. I read The Hobbit when I was eight or nine, but I thought it was boring *shame on me*
I forgot Tolkien and all untill the first movie came out...I read LotR in about two days that Christmas. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Everdawn · 08-29-2003, 05:19 AM

I have been trying to read The Hobbit since february, but have failed miserably... Its just not as interesting and has less elves... though Elrond seems happier...

I read LOTR two years ago and became a fan right away and have ben trying to convert my friends...

Idunn · 08-29-2003, 11:28 AM

At first I read The Hobbit - so exactly according to the events sequence. My younger brother prompted me to do that - in fact, that was the first book which he had read before me! That was about three years ago.

Everdawn · 08-30-2003, 02:28 AM

But the first book i read was "Edward the Emu" and "Possum Magic" and i still read them today... over and over again, but i have to say LOTR isnt my fave completely. It is Alice in Wonderland. I may not be an exact expert on everything tolkien, but what i do know is everything about Alice.

Elwen_starmaiden · 09-03-2003, 11:05 AM

I had read the Hobbit first and I tried to read Fellowship but it was "too hard." I was young and naive, that was in 5th grade, 4 years ago, and at that time I was into Harry Potter [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] I still like HP but LOTR is just so much more interesting. I finally tried again after I saw the movie and then searched and found the Silmarillion and had read it over the summer. Can't wait until ROTK!

07-27-2003, 09:32 PM	#81
Imladris Tears of the Phoenix Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Putting dimes in the jukebox baby. Posts: 1,453	I'm not sure when I read The Hobbit, but I think I was around 10. A few months after that I read that (?), I read LOTR a couple of times. Then I found out that there was a movie coming out and got confused with Arwen and Eowyn, so I read the books again to clear up that confusion. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] After I watched the movie, my love for the books was renewed and I have read them around five times over the course of the last two years. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ I'm sorry it wasn't a unicorn. It would have been nice to have unicorns. I'm your huckleberry.

07-29-2003, 01:15 PM	#82
Genevieve Animated Skeleton Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Where am I? Huh? I'm lost! Posts: 50	My friends had read the books before the movies, and were always telling me to read them. When Fotr came out, I read The Hobbit, got exited, and read Fotr and TTT. I haven't read Rotk yet, but am planning on it as soon as I have time and energy. __________________ No thought was put into this I always knew it would come to this. Things have never been so swell I have never failed to feel Pain.

07-31-2003, 12:08 PM	#83
The Elusive Spirit Haunting Spirit Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: The out-skirts of Bree, on my way to some where. Posts: 53	I only started to read FOTR after the movie came out. Be fore the movie my brother started to read it and my friend said it was really good. I had read the first and second book by the time the movie came out on DVD. Now I'm hooked. __________________ Before these fields were shorn and tilled, Full to the brim our rivers flowed; The melody of waters filled The fresh and boundless wood, And torrents dashed, and rivlets played, And fountains spouted in the shade. -Bryant

07-31-2003, 02:25 PM	#84
Elennar Starfire Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2003 Location: Nowhere...now here Posts: 952	My dad started reading a chapter of The Hobbit to me every night for a bedtime story when I was about five, and after we finished that he read LotR. __________________ Don't let me die!

08-01-2003, 03:32 PM	#85
Hirilaelin Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Immersed in a Good Book Posts: 367	My father brought us back a copy of The Hobbit from a business trip when I was about five, and mum read it out loud to us. Over the years, it's been read countless times, and is now falling apart. It's still my favorite book! *HIRILAELIN* __________________ ...so I fired two warning shots. Into his head. - Chicago Let Helky stay! Bree\|Imladris\|guess you'll never know...

08-10-2003, 04:07 PM	#86
Novberaid Animated Skeleton Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Mirkwood Forest Posts: 45	RE: MY FIRST TIME I read The Lord of the Rings in 1979. Each time I read it I pass it on to someone else. Then I can buy a new copy for myself and read it again. __________________ By the starlit mere of Cuivienen, they rose from the sleep of Iluvatar

08-10-2003, 09:21 PM	#87
Amarantha_Daisy Wight Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Bag End... On Frodo's laptop. Shhhh! Don't tell! Posts: 240	Hmmmm... I read The Hobbit when I was in the sixth grade, about 5 years ago, and I loved it so my parents bought me The Lord of the Rings boxed set. I started FotR, but never got passed the first chapter. I was a sad, sick child. After the movie came out, I picked it up again and read through it pretty quickly. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] I read TTT and RotK right aftZ

08-12-2003, 05:38 PM	#88
Kaiserin Wight Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Cair Paravel Posts: 150	I read the Hobbit when I was in sixth grade too! ... that was fifteen years ago. The year before that, I got ahold of the LOTR trilogy. Anyway, it's great to know I'm not the only non-teenager here. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] __________________ The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

08-12-2003, 06:02 PM	#89
THE Ka Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: As with the flygja Posts: 1,403	Well, let's see... ok, when i first read the lotr series i was about 11... i had to because for a english project we had to pick a book on fantasy, and my group chose the two towers,then keep a journal on what we thought about the author and book. Of, course i had only read the hobbit, so i only had three weeks to read the first book! thank god my friend had read the series 3 times at least... i have to say thought that i though that the books were excellent and i was surprised at how well they were written. I myself having been only eleven,and didn't understand most of what was going on entil later, but i thought it was a masterpeice... [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many have there been that have tried it. - Herman Melville, MobyDick __________________ Vinur, vinur skilur tú meg? Veitst tú ongan loyniveg? Hevur tú reikað líka sum eg, í endaleysu tokuni?

08-15-2003, 05:14 PM	#90
lossenlithiel Guest Posts: n/a	I read it when I just turned 11. I'm 15 now, and have read them all about 15 times since

08-27-2003, 12:57 PM	#91
Gloruviel Guest Posts: n/a	i read it when the first movie came out (i had to read it b4 i could c the movie).

08-27-2003, 01:13 PM	#92
Manardariel Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Rivendell Posts: 807	I love these threads because I read my first Tolkien book when I was FOUR! waits for stares I´m special! Hahaha! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] It was the Father Christmas Letters- I totally loved that book when I was small...next was Roverandom, when I was six. I read The Hobbit when I was eight or nine, but I thought it was boring shame on me I forgot Tolkien and all untill the first movie came out...I read LotR in about two days that Christmas. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. Blog :-)\|FanFic Dream City

08-29-2003, 05:19 AM	#93
Everdawn Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: On the sand dunes outside of Ilium, watching it burn. Posts: 1,291	I have been trying to read The Hobbit since february, but have failed miserably... Its just not as interesting and has less elves... though Elrond seems happier... I read LOTR two years ago and became a fan right away and have ben trying to convert my friends... __________________ "Athena, stepping up behind him, visible to no one but Achillies, gripped his red-gold hair. Startled he made a half turn, and he knew her upon the instant for Athena." ~The Iliad~ ~My lord, Éomer~

08-29-2003, 11:28 AM	#94
Idunn Pile O'Bones Join Date: May 2003 Location: Poland Posts: 21	At first I read The Hobbit - so exactly according to the events sequence. My younger brother prompted me to do that - in fact, that was the first book which he had read before me! That was about three years ago. __________________ "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield" Tennyson

08-30-2003, 02:28 AM	#95
Everdawn Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: On the sand dunes outside of Ilium, watching it burn. Posts: 1,291	But the first book i read was "Edward the Emu" and "Possum Magic" and i still read them today... over and over again, but i have to say LOTR isnt my fave completely. It is Alice in Wonderland. I may not be an exact expert on everything tolkien, but what i do know is everything about Alice. __________________ "Athena, stepping up behind him, visible to no one but Achillies, gripped his red-gold hair. Startled he made a half turn, and he knew her upon the instant for Athena." ~The Iliad~ ~My lord, Éomer~

09-03-2003, 11:05 AM	#96
Elwen_starmaiden Animated Skeleton Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: A van down by the river. Posts: 39	I had read the Hobbit first and I tried to read Fellowship but it was "too hard." I was young and naive, that was in 5th grade, 4 years ago, and at that time I was into Harry Potter [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] I still like HP but LOTR is just so much more interesting. I finally tried again after I saw the movie and then searched and found the Silmarillion and had read it over the summer. Can't wait until ROTK! __________________ "Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not." -George Bernard Shaw