When did you read your first book?

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When I was a sophomore in high school (seems like ages ago), the group I was in had to choose a novel to read for the fourth quarter in Honors English. We decided to read &quot;The Hobbit,&quot; or rather a guy in my group decided we would. I really enjoyed it, and read the other LOTR books. The funny thing was that as a group project, we had to turn our novel into a movie (!) and create a poster, film a trailer, and cast modern-day actors/actresses in the roles. I'm not sure, but I think we cast Sir Alec Guinness as Gandalf.

So, when did everyone else read their first book?

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Last November, I think. Maybe early December. I had been meaning to read them and I had to do a book report for school so I picked up a copy of The Silmarillion from the library. I finished it way before the report was due, and we had to read it during class, so to keep from getting in trouble I decided to get The Hobbit. I finished that early too. I was pretty busy then so I had my mother go out and buy The Fellowship of the Ring and she came back with Unfinished Tales, which I read until either we stopped reading in class or I bought The Fellowship of the Ring, I forget which happened first. I read LotR off and on for the next few months, finished during spring break.

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At the risk of appearing rather long in tooth, The Hobbit, 1972.

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Re: When did you read your first book?

I first read the Hobbit and LotR in 1979...then the Silmarillion in 1980 or thereabout.

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Thank God for Mithadan! I feel positively child-like. I didn't read the Hobbit until the Summer of 1974. I kept starting FotR and getting bored in the first two chapters so I didn't read LotR until (I think) 1976 and I probably only read it then because my father and my sister kept reassuring me that it would not drag along at the pace the whole 1300+ pages.

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Hi guys, I am new here but you will soon get to know me.

I have read the Lord of the Rings 7 times and the Hobbit 4 or 5 times, I cannot remember. Also read the Silmarillion (french version). YEAH I AM FRENCH/ENGLISH......

I read my first Hobbit 16 years ago at the tender age of 13, and have been hooked ever since. I am re-reading the Lord ... at the present, and taking it slow savouring every paragraph.

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Re: When did you read your first book?

Are you any relation to the Gammidgys? If so, you must be a cousin and I'm happy (to be the first?) to welcome you to the Barrow Downs. What is French/English? Some sort of displaced hugenot?

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Re: When did you read your first book?

I am sorry to disappoint you but I am only a long lost cousin from France with an English mother, ie French/English.
Thank you for welcoming me to the Barrow Downs.

By the way, the quizzes on the BD are great but sometimes a little difficult indeed.

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The Hobbit

When I was about 8 or 9, my dad wanted to read the Hobbit to us, his kids. So before we went to bed, he would read a chapter to us. My two sisters quickly lost interest, and my mom would usually sleep through it, but my brother and I loved it.

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Re: The Hobbit

When I was in seventh grade, due to last minute babysitter problems, I had to accompany my parents to a dinner party given by friends of theirs. I was the only child there. One of the hosts suggested I go to the study and read this marvelous book that she had just read. So, I went into the study and spent the next four hours reading Fellowship of the Ring. It was the most extraordinary book I'd ever read. She let me take it home with me and within a couple of weeks I'd finished the trilogy. When I'd visit them, she and I would sit and talk about the books. My folks and her housemate that we were crazy.

I didn't read the Hobbit until Sophomore year in high-school. My fellow LOTR fanatics forced me to do so -- I hated it because it was such a &quot;kid's story.&quot;

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Re: The Hobbit

I first read The Hobbit this past summer. That along with The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.


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Re: The Hobbit

Oh come on now! Surely someone who frequents this board has a few years on me. The Hobbit is a lot older than I am.

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Re: The Hobbit

I first read The Hobbit at the tender year of eight. I went on to read LotR in the same year, then two years later I read Silma when I was ten. I can't reallly remember, but I think I started when I found The Hob in my mum's bookshelf and read it. Since then I've read The Hob and LotR three times each and Silma twice.

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Re: The Hobbit

If Dogtrot were here, Mithadan, he might balm you. But I doubt it. You may be senior scholar at the board. This may be a &quot;board thing&quot; in the deeper sense. We probably all know appreciably older people who read LotR, but there is an observable and little-crossed genrational divide with respect to the internet. One friend of mine has been &quot;Strider&quot; since his days as an army-medic in Vietnam, but many people like him or my dad treat the internet as a resource, not as an environment.

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My first time

All true Galspi. What would JRRT have thought about the net? He may have been ambivilent about technology, however, as an educator and lover of books and languages, he may have liked it.

BTW, I was 11 when I first read the Hobbit (and LoTR).

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Re: My first time

Who started reading Tolkien earliest on this board?

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Re: My first time

1979... age 14

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Sad to say, I bet I'm the oldest on the board. <img src=frown.gif ALT="">

I hold in my hand my first copy of LOTR, although I've acquired several others. It's the first printing of the Ballentine paperback in 1965. I'd like to say I was 5 at the time, but alas, I was 11 and in 7th grade.

Hmmm...I guess I was scrawling &quot;Frodo Lives&quot; on sidewalks before most of you were alive. (And, I bet many of you didn't even get the reference <img src=frown.gif ALT="">

Lucky for me that magic ring kept me from aging all those years. <img src=wink.gif ALT="">

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Re: My first time

I think I must have been 13 at the time. And it was the Hobbit, followed closely by the LOTR.

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1978... also the year I played my first session of D&amp;D.

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Re: My first time

I never played D&amp;D but I invented many a role playing game with two friends of mine who also read the LOTR and the Hobbit.
We also played and re-enacted many scenes of the LOTR with the little lead figurines ( one inch ) of which I have about 200.


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Thanks mwcfrodo. I feel much better knowing that someone here has a few years on me. You're lucky that your original copy survived. Mine lasted about 26 years, but did not survive the ravages of my kids. I HAD to go and buy nearly identical replacements on eBay. My problem is that I can't bring myself to crack the bindings. I may have to get another (third) set of LoTR.<img src=wink.gif ALT="">

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Gamegie if your mini's are Mithril(name brand) you have quite a collection. they were bringing good money on ebay last i checked.

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Re: My first time

Mithadan:
I have about three and (several) half sets on my shelf. One is my tattered original, one is a tattered replacement, one was the replacement of that set (which I've recently busted the spines of making up quizes, checking quotes, etc., since I started playing on this board). The various half-sets are all that remain of a once-vast library of JRRT that I acquired as &quot;loaners&quot; during my teens when I came to grips with how few loaned copies ever came back, with how many came back ruined, and with the fact that I still wanted to indocrinate my friends. Earlier this sumer I was thinking about buying a solider set, but I've gotten so handy with packing tape that I feel like I'd be insulting my repaired volumes.

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Re: My first time

Sorry to interupt but I read 'The Hobbit' during the summer of freshmen year as a summer reading assignment. I was enthralled by Tolkien's work and went on to read LOTR. I have recently begun the Silmarillion, and have been trying to get a copy of 'The Adventures of Tom Bombadil' but to no avail. Oh well keep trying......

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I cannot remember the make but they were original figurines representing the LOTR characters. Best ones were the company and Sauron as well as TOM B.....

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First time

Suldaledhel - The Adventures of Tom Bombadil can be found in the Tolkien Reader, together with Tree and Leaf and other works. It is available in paperback.

Galspi - I have the same problem with books loaned to others. For this reason, I never loaned anything by JRRT to anyone. My &quot;original&quot; was the Ballantine edition from early-mid-seventies. White cover with original artwork by JRRT. For the first 25 or so years that I owned them, I was almost reverently careful with the bindings, due to nostalgia. When they became damaged, I got the same editions with gold box in mint condition at what I considered to be a premium on eBay. As I monitor eBay auctions of Tolkiena, I have since observed the bids markedly increasing for almost everything, even to the point where recent publications, HoME volumes etc., are auctioning at prices equal to or greater than the price for a new book. The Gold box LoTR which I got now frequently auctions at 2-3 times what I paid. I guess I'm not the only one suffering from nostalgia/sentimentality.

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Read The Hobbit at age 11 in 1987. It seems just like yesterday. Then, later that summer, I remember going to the library and checking out The Fellowship of the Ring. I can still feel the excitement I had when I came back a week later to get The Two Towers. The true magic of Tolkien's work was how it made you feel. You didn't just read his books--- you lived them.

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Re: When did you read your first book?

I first read the hobbit at age 7,and LoTR a year later.
When at age 10 I started with Silma,and since then every couple of months I re-read the whole bunch.Soon I'm probably going to begin with UT.

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Re: When did you read your first book?

The first time I read the books was 1992 when I was 12.
My Dad made me. But he didn't have to use much force, after I had read about three pages of the Hobbit.
I read the books ever since at least once a year.
Sometimes twice.

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Re: My first time

I first had the Hobbit read to me at the age of five and then read it myself in 1991 at the age of six I then later that year read LOTR which I got that Nov for my birthday, I finished it before christmas that year before I was seven and one month. I loved both of those works from the very first word in them. I have read them at least three times a year since.



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Re: When did you read your first book?

I just read The Hobbit this summer! I am currently in the middle of The Two Towers! It is great!!! <img src=eek.gif ALT=":eek">

I am really enjoying these books, and I can't decide if I wish I had read them when I was a kid or not. It would have been a great world to visit back then, but I am as much a kid now as I was then, so I enjoy them all the same!



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It was fun reading this whole thread because I think it is great that a set of books can bring such diverse ages and cultures together. I wonder if Tolkien even fathomed the effect that his books would have on future generations??

But to answer the original question, I first read the The Hobbit in 8th grade (I'm 27 now) for a book report I had to do. I absolutely HATED reading at the time. Well, that quickly changed!! I loved the book and started FotR right away though I couldn't make it through it at the time. I picked it up again in 12th grade and breezed through all 3 books. Then it was on to the Silma and Unfinished Tales. By now I've read all of them several times.

Thanks JRR for turning me on to reading!

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although i might be a bit late, i'm going to answer this one anyway ...

i read the hobbit first in spring of 1988 (7 years old) and started (as well as finished) the lotr in the summer holidays of the same year, just before or after (dunno exactly) my eighth birthday. i took the books from my mother and read those almost every year, and finally, 3 or 4 years ago, i bought my own edition (consisting of 7 books, 1 for the hobbit and 6 for the lotr). 2 years later i bought the english edition and read this and just now (last week) i purchased most of the books from the home-series on a trip to ireland and i'm going to read those as soon as possible (probably in the next holidays, because at the moment i'm a bit overwhelmed by exams in school.

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I read it first about a year ago in Dutch(Hobbit and LotR). I was just 14(two weaks earlier I was srtill 13). I read the Silm, UT, I bought as many books as I could find, and read them all.

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I read the Hobbit and LotR in 1990... i was 12. Yeah, I'm a young Tolkien reader, but so were we all at one time or another.

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back in 1990, ages ago it seems, when I was a mere boy, I discovered russian translation (I did not speak inglish in those days) of 'THE HOBBIT' on my parents shelf. It was delightful! On a cover there was annotation, that Raduga publishers is preparing to publish other book by the same author - LOTR. My grandmother was going to Moscow than, and I asked her to bring me back this book. She really did find LOTR, but only two volumes - for some reason or another the translation of books V and VI was delayed till 1993. I read first four books in to nights (was awake for 40 hours or so) and than during two years was imaganing what happened next. after Shelob's Lair (It was pain close to pleasure). I remember the date - 21.02.1993 I was walking in a place in Tbilisi called &quot;dry bridge&quot; - what not of any kind is sold there - old books and cd-s, antics and so on, and saw the third volume. Tha man who was selling it wanted 500 r for a book. Usually i do bargain, and hard enough, but now the vendor was a bit surprised by very unususal customer ( I;m sure he thought me cracked) - I haven't money with me, so I said that i'd be back in half an hour, I'd give him 1000r and if, when I return, book is sold, he would be my enemy till the end of his days, wich would not be long. The same year I started to learn english, to read not translated stuff by JRRT (my basic foreign language in school was french), and here I am now <img src=smile.gif ALT=""> , living rather in Middle-Earth than there. what my family is used to call real life.

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LOL with that post I became pile of bones.

PS not only vendor thought me cracked, my father was sure my life will end up in an asilum - about twice a week I was calling in RadugaPublishers and sending letters asking when would the third volume appear. And he (my father) was angered a bit too - international calls are not too cheap <img src=smile.gif ALT="">

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Welcome, Tovarish.<img src=smile.gif ALT=""> The name Tebilisi rings a bell but I don't recall where from. Do you still live in Russia? Have you read the Black Silmarillion?

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Thanks indeed <img src=smile.gif ALT=""> .Tbilisi is capital of Georgia, former soviet republic. I never lived in Russia, but russian is foreign language most familiar to me. I heard about &quot;Black Book of Arda&quot; , but i haven't read it. An author must be one named Nienna, if I am not mistaken. if you are football (european) fan, and old enough, you must remember name Tbilisi by 1982 UEFA Cup winners Cup, when Dynamo Tbilisi held a victory against Karlsrue of DDR and won above named cup. Maybe that's why name Tbilisi rings <img src=smile.gif ALT=""> or there (I hope) is some other reason<img src=smile.gif ALT="">

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