How has your reading changed?

[Eonwe]

when i first read LOTR, i was about twenvle i'd say. i read it very quickly (i think i read fellowship and tt in less than two days, but had to wait a week or so for the return of teh king to come back to the library; it killed me) and was primarily interested in the plot. i thourowly enjoyed the read and it prompted me on to the hobbit, silmarillion and i just started unfinished tales. and here, i guess.

anyway, as i said, when i first read the books i was primarily interested in the plot of LOTR in particular. now that i've read some backround information, when i go back to LOTR, different things make more sense. like when aragorn says whatever about bilbo having the cheak to make rymes about earindil in the house of elrond, that's his own business.

also, when i first read it, i went very quickly and just started recognizing names for their letters, and didn't sound them out. (if you know what i mean). so someone might be "that guy who's name has starts with and a", or whatever. and allot of the names i pronounce with english pronounciagiont (seerdan for cairdan, etc.) now that i go back and read them again, i love going to the appendixes and sounding out the names and re-learning them. and i have a better appreciation for different names. especially love osgiliath. i sometimes find myself repeating the names just cause they sound so beautiful.

anyway, all that to say: how have you started reading differently.

(if there is a thread like this already, my apologies)