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Laleena · 11-01-2006, 06:42 AM

Okay, this is sort of embarrasing, but this is how I found the LOTR books.

I was in Berlin Peck Library and I was walking down the Young Adult Section. I tripped over a book that was on the floor and fell, while I was getting up and cursing the user, I looked down at the book. It was The Hobbit. So I thought what the heck, so I checked it out and read it. That's how I became hooked on the LOTR

narfforc · 11-01-2006, 07:33 AM

I to also found my copy of The Hobbit in a library. I had just finished reading the Last Battle by C.S.Lewis and asked the librarian whether there were anymore in the Narnia series. She pulled out my card and to my horror told me I had read them all, seeing my distress she asked me if I had read The Hobbit, I told her I hadn't and she went and got me a copy. I now own 49 seperate copies (one in German) of this marvellous book, 52 copies of The Lord of the Rings, and over 200 other books of/on Tolkien, all because of a wet afternoon in Dec 1969.

mormegil · 11-01-2006, 07:54 AM

I didn't have much of a propensity for reading in my younger days as I was busy with other things like sports and video games. When I was about 21 and just returned from Brazil my Dad recommended that I read LotR's and I did so. Comically I didn't at first realize that it was a trilogy and when the fellowship was leaving Lothlorien I kept wondering how they were going to quickly destroy the ring because there are only 50 or so pages to do it

. I have since read them about yearly along with the Silm, The Hobbit is read every few years.

ninja91 · 11-01-2006, 11:30 AM

Haha! My story is juicy. I stole mine from my middle school library as a memento and a way to get back at my old bookworm librarian. She...was not exactly very nice.
So I read it. And I liked it. And I watched the movies. And now, here I am...

shieldmaiden4xsword · 11-01-2006, 03:46 PM

i found them in my library when i was looking for something else.

Legolasfan1 · 11-01-2006, 04:31 PM

All I'm going to say is that my little sis threw the Two Towers at me. Thankfully, she has very bad aim and it almost hit some other guy....

12-01-2006, 03:47 PM

My story isn't nearly as exciting as you people's are, but I'll let slip anyway. My friend had stolen it from her brother and she introduced it to me.

Boromir_bg · 01-01-2007, 03:54 PM

It's interesting.I've always been a fan of the fantasy and the sci-fi.Since childhood.I prefer fantasy though if I have to choose.It's somewhat related to the past and history of the mankind and the sci-fi is related to the future.
Anyways - there were in Bulgaria a special kind of roleplay gamebooks,which I really enjoyed in my early ages so after they stopped making them I related myself to the great Tolkien world,because I understood for it from them.

The Might · 01-01-2007, 05:47 PM

I first read the Hobbit when I was smaller, maybe 10 in Romania. I know I enjoyed reading fantasy, and I had found the book in my grandmother's bookshelf...that's how it started
I afterwards purchased it in English, and bought LOTR after reading the first chapter of the book at the end of the Hobbit.
I purchased the Silmarillion, the UT, and some of the "minor works" after the movies appeared

ArathorofBarahir · 01-03-2007, 03:02 PM

I remember it like it was yesterday. The day was Thursday December 20th, and I had just gotten home from school (I was a sophomore in high school at the time) and turned on MTV and on there was the Making the Movie Lord of the Rings the Fellowship of the Ring \ and I was hooked. So I had my mom take me to the mall and get me the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, all three in one book and I read the Hobbit by Saturday morning, was finished with the Fellowship by sunday around lunch-time afterwhich I went to the movies and saw FOTR for the first of seven times and after that I came home and was finished reading the whole thing by the day after Christmas. By far, these memories I will never forget.

Galadriel · 01-14-2011, 07:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Laleena

Okay, this is sort of embarrasing, but this is how I found the LOTR books.

I was in Berlin Peck Library and I was walking down the Young Adult Section. I tripped over a book that was on the floor and fell, while I was getting up and cursing the user, I looked down at the book. It was The Hobbit. So I thought what the heck, so I checked it out and read it. That's how I became hooked on the LOTR

Haha, that sounds pretty fairy-tale like

Me, I learnt about LotR through the old Bakshi films. Then my mom bought the book when the movies came out. You can guess what happened

Galadriel55 · 01-14-2011, 02:46 PM

My story is very plain. My mom read the book when I was around 6, and I asked her what it's about, and she said she'd read it to me. I reread it myself a few years later, and again and again. Sounds pretty boring compared to some of yours!

11-01-2006, 06:42 AM	#1
Laleena Animated Skeleton Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: in Mirkwood riding my horse Posts: 27	How did you Come across these Books Okay, this is sort of embarrasing, but this is how I found the LOTR books. I was in Berlin Peck Library and I was walking down the Young Adult Section. I tripped over a book that was on the floor and fell, while I was getting up and cursing the user, I looked down at the book. It was The Hobbit. So I thought what the heck, so I checked it out and read it. That's how I became hooked on the LOTR __________________ Sarcasm isn't the lowest form of wit, it isn't wit at all.~ Halt

11-01-2006, 07:33 AM	#2
narfforc Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Muddy-earth Posts: 1,297	I to also found my copy of The Hobbit in a library. I had just finished reading the Last Battle by C.S.Lewis and asked the librarian whether there were anymore in the Narnia series. She pulled out my card and to my horror told me I had read them all, seeing my distress she asked me if I had read The Hobbit, I told her I hadn't and she went and got me a copy. I now own 49 seperate copies (one in German) of this marvellous book, 52 copies of The Lord of the Rings, and over 200 other books of/on Tolkien, all because of a wet afternoon in Dec 1969. __________________ [B]THE LORD OF THE GRINS:THE ONE PARODY....A PARODY BETTER THAN THE RINGS OF POWER.

11-01-2006, 07:54 AM	#3
mormegil Maundering Mage Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Texas Posts: 4,647	I didn't have much of a propensity for reading in my younger days as I was busy with other things like sports and video games. When I was about 21 and just returned from Brazil my Dad recommended that I read LotR's and I did so. Comically I didn't at first realize that it was a trilogy and when the fellowship was leaving Lothlorien I kept wondering how they were going to quickly destroy the ring because there are only 50 or so pages to do it . I have since read them about yearly along with the Silm, The Hobbit is read every few years. __________________ “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

11-01-2006, 03:46 PM	#5
shieldmaiden4xsword Wight Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: where people stick out their tongues at their youth pastor.... Posts: 183	i found them in my library when i was looking for something else. __________________ Sometimes the peril is not in what is around us, what enemies or trials that may come, but what is in our own hearts.

11-01-2006, 04:31 PM	#6
Legolasfan1 Pile O'Bones Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: in Rivendell riding on my horse and shooting arrows Posts: 11	All I'm going to say is that my little sis threw the Two Towers at me. Thankfully, she has very bad aim and it almost hit some other guy.... __________________ I'm having a rotten day, my supply of chocolate just ran out!

12-01-2006, 03:47 PM	#7
Sadreen Guest Posts: n/a	My story isn't nearly as exciting as you people's are, but I'll let slip anyway. My friend had stolen it from her brother and she introduced it to me.

01-01-2007, 03:54 PM	#8
Boromir_bg Pile O'Bones Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 16	It's interesting.I've always been a fan of the fantasy and the sci-fi.Since childhood.I prefer fantasy though if I have to choose.It's somewhat related to the past and history of the mankind and the sci-fi is related to the future. Anyways - there were in Bulgaria a special kind of roleplay gamebooks,which I really enjoyed in my early ages so after they stopped making them I related myself to the great Tolkien world,because I understood for it from them. __________________ The Pride of Gondor!

01-01-2007, 05:47 PM	#9
The Might Guard of the Citadel Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Oxon Posts: 2,205	I first read the Hobbit when I was smaller, maybe 10 in Romania. I know I enjoyed reading fantasy, and I had found the book in my grandmother's bookshelf...that's how it started I afterwards purchased it in English, and bought LOTR after reading the first chapter of the book at the end of the Hobbit. I purchased the Silmarillion, the UT, and some of the "minor works" after the movies appeared __________________ “The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.” Delos B. McKown

01-03-2007, 03:02 PM	#10
ArathorofBarahir Wight Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Crickhallow Posts: 247	I remember it like it was yesterday. The day was Thursday December 20th, and I had just gotten home from school (I was a sophomore in high school at the time) and turned on MTV and on there was the Making the Movie Lord of the Rings the Fellowship of the Ring \ and I was hooked. So I had my mom take me to the mall and get me the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, all three in one book and I read the Hobbit by Saturday morning, was finished with the Fellowship by sunday around lunch-time afterwhich I went to the movies and saw FOTR for the first of seven times and after that I came home and was finished reading the whole thing by the day after Christmas. By far, these memories I will never forget. __________________ King of the Dead: The dead do not suffer the living to pass. Aragorn: You will suffer me.

01-14-2011, 02:46 PM	#12
Galadriel55 Blossom of Dwimordene Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: The realm of forgotten words Posts: 10,377	My story is very plain. My mom read the book when I was around 6, and I asked her what it's about, and she said she'd read it to me. I reread it myself a few years later, and again and again. Sounds pretty boring compared to some of yours! __________________ You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera