I first read the Hobbit in grade 6. Then in grade 7 I started reading the Lord of the Rings. When I got the books for Christmas in grade 8, it was joy. After I watched Fellowship, I made a competition with myself to see how many times I could read the trilogy until RotK was released. I've read the trilogy 10 times since I saw Fellowship. Total I've read the trilogy 12 or 13 times. The Silmarillion 1 1/2 times.
Way back in 1983 (Lord, I'm dating myself here), my friend and I were so intrigued by Tolkien's original maps and how well crafted they were, that we both decided to follow suit and create the same kinds of maps for one of our art classes. Ended up using those same maps as part of some of our original D&D campaigns... pretty nice alternative to those quad ruled map sheet that we normally used.
Anyway, that got me started on Tolkien. Fast forward to 1989... ended up going to Marquette University. It was pretty cool during the first year there... they actually have some of original pages of Tolkien's pages on display in their Memorial Library. Actually seeing those rekindled my original interests on Tolkien, and I made sure that I enrolled every English literature course that had Tolkien as required reading.
Hope everyone doesn't mind me trying to relive some of those earlier days at your reading expense...
hmm the first time heard about LOTR was when my EX was readin it, but i didn't pay too much attention cause he used to ***** about everything, and at the time he was bitching about Elijah playing Frodo, so i rolled my eyes and ignored him. But later on i got into it ( lol we were breaking up at the time)
But when the movie came out the obessesion began. My brother bought the book, i read and held it captive till i learned everything ( i forget most of it now though, gyad i getting old). We got the dvd's, i bought lost tales 1 and 2 ( read those) my brother bought The Hobbit ( read that too)
He bought the other 3 books to make up the first 5 of the history of middle.
But right now i am TAKING MY VERY SLOW time to read the Silmarillion.
So yeah the movies introduced me to LOTR and Tolkien, but i have pushed beyond the movies and into the gigantuan world of tolkien and middle earth
Well, my dad read me The Hobbit when I was young, but I had no idea what it was about and forgot most of it. I first got interested in Tolkien after I saw FotR. Until that point, I thought I wouldn't like it. (btw, I thought the same thing about HP, didn't start to read the books until one week after it came out, the I saw it and now I love it) I got more involved with Tolkien after TTT, but it wasn't until I saw trailers for RotK that I became a Tolkien nut. I started to read the books, mainly RotK and started to learn more about ME. Well, after seeing it, I wanted to learn more, esp the 1st and 2nd age. For a while, I had no clue what happened in 2nd age, it was a mystery. I alway thought that the rings were forged in the 3rd age, but they were made in the 2nd. Well, then I read the Silmarillion and got more involved in Tolkien's world of Arda. Now, I can't get enough of it. More will come, btw
Originally posted by Primitive Screwhead #1
Way back in 1983 (Lord, I'm dating myself here), my friend and I were so intrigued by Tolkien's original maps and how well crafted they were, that we both decided to follow suit and create the same kinds of maps for one of our art classes. Ended up using those same maps as part of some of our original D&D campaigns... pretty nice alternative to those quad ruled map sheet that we normally used.Anyway, that got me started on Tolkien. Fast forward to 1989... ended up going to Marquette University. It was pretty cool during the first year there... they actually have some of original pages of Tolkien's pages on display in their Memorial Library. Actually seeing those rekindled my original interests on Tolkien, and I made sure that I enrolled every English literature course that had Tolkien as required reading.
Hope everyone doesn't mind me trying to relive some of those earlier days at your reading expense...
Hmm, you seem strangely familiar...
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