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Post by Wendy Kohlhoff on Aug 13, 2005 15:55:10 GMT -5
When did you read the books , if you did?
and Why?
My sister was assigned them in Jr. High and she read them to me when I was like 6.
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Post by lalaith on Aug 14, 2005 22:00:46 GMT -5
I saw the comercial for FOTR in... early 2001, I think. It looked good, and I wanted to see it. My Mom told me I should read the book first, and that I would really like them, but I was resistant. That's my contrariness, there.  Anyways, I found FOTR in the library bookstore for 25 cents and bought it. After it sat on my shelf for a number of months, I finally read it and fell in love it it. I got TTT and ROTK right away. I had actually read most of the Hobbit years before, but didn't like or understand it very well, lol. |
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Post by anjana on Aug 16, 2005 22:31:50 GMT -5
I actually read the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings in July this year. I watched the movies a while back and always wanted to read the books but never had the time. They were really good but the Lord of the Rings book I read was all 3 in one. It's actualy supposed to be one book in 3 volumes with 2 parts each. I didn't know that before I read that edition.
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Post by marie on Aug 17, 2005 3:27:19 GMT -5
I was in cinema watching FOTR. It impressed me so much that I wanted to read the books at once. Right the next day I went into a bookshop and bought them - proudly I can say that I read them in english, not in german, which is kinda special in Germany  |
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Post by rimpsessa on Aug 27, 2005 2:51:43 GMT -5
Umm... I've read them twice... Three or four years ago...  I love fantasy! |
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Post by liz on Sept 6, 2005 18:33:07 GMT -5
I read the hobbit behind my parents back in 5th grade (they didn't want me to read fantasy) and during 6th grade my dad (who somehow found out that i read the hobbit...he just seems to know these things it was strange) bought me the trilogy. And I read them all during 7th grade.
-Liz
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Post by lienie on Oct 23, 2005 6:18:17 GMT -5
I read the Hobbit just when FOTR the movie came out, because I always want to read the book before seeing a movie, but I didn't have enough time to read FOTR. After I had seen the movie I had to read the books, so I read FOTR and TTT before seeing TTT and I started ROTK before seeing the last movie, but didn't quite get to the end, then I saw the movie, and then I read the end It was 3 years nothing but LOTR And I was so sad when it all ended, that now I trying to read Silmarillion, but that's taking me a little longer |
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Post by lalaith on Oct 23, 2005 21:30:20 GMT -5
The SIlm is very hard. It took me like a month and a half to get through it the first time, lol.
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Post by renate on Jan 13, 2006 18:40:16 GMT -5
I first read LotR a while before FotR came out in cinemas. All the bookstores were selling the books in time for the movie, and there was this black box that was looking all pretty... So I got it, and read them all. ^_^ I've re-read them several times, just finished doing so, actually.  |
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Post by courtney on Jan 16, 2006 17:57:09 GMT -5
It was 3 years nothing but LOTR And I was so sad when it all ended, that now I trying to read Silmarillion, but that's taking me a little longer Lol, my high school years were defined by LOTR and on campus my friends and I were know as "those LOTR freaks". Anyway, I read the hobbit back in junior high, finished FOTR and started TTT just before the first movie was released, then finished TTT and ROTK the following summer. I've re-read all three several times, but now I'm branching out into the Silmarillion (which I've been procrastinating reading for a while since it's a bit harder to read being written like a history and not like a story). |
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Post by Niniel on Nov 12, 2006 19:48:12 GMT -5
I know I'm coming into this really late, but of course I was raised with a strong Tolkien influence and have that connection, but didn't actually start with the books until I was 12. I'm not sure that any younger than that I would have really appreciated them or been able to notice the nuances. I started with The Hobbit and it was all go from there.
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Post by Wendy Kohlhoff on Nov 13, 2006 11:05:32 GMT -5
I think you and I had similar upbringings Niniel.
My sister is 9 years older than me but we were best friends and inseparable. She was 14 when she first read them, and she would read them to me and explain the stories. By the time I could actually read The Hobbit, it was already ingrained in me.
Just a part of me. Don't think that will ever change.
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Post by Niniel on Nov 13, 2006 11:25:18 GMT -5
That's so sweet. My father kinda occupied that role for me, for as long as he could, since I was quite young when he died. But then once I started reading the books and acknowledging this thing that was part of me from birth I just went all out. I am trying to do the same in fostering an interest in Tolkien in my little cousins, but it's stiff competition when there's X-Men and whatever else little boys are into these days! What a special thing for you and your sister to have shared. |
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Anyways, I found FOTR in the library bookstore for 25 cents and bought it. After it sat on my shelf for a number of months, I finally read it and fell in love it it. I got TTT and ROTK right away. I had actually read most of the Hobbit years before, but didn't like or understand it very well, lol.
I love fantasy!
