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Welcome Evenstar1400, I don't think we've crossed paths at the Moot yet.
What got me into LOTR is my dad reading it to my brother and I when we were kids. We were about 7 and 9. He read us the whole thing, a little bit each night, with my mom occasionally listening in. After he finished, I read The Hobbit. I also reread the series about 3 other times. And last year I read the Silmarillion, roughly 10 years after my first encounter! I didn't know this theme had been done before either, but I've only been here since last August. Repeats happen though, a good idea will keep coming back.
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01-10-2003, 09:43 AM | #102 |
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I got LotR for christmas a couple of years ago, but I thought it looked scary (it was a picture of Sam, Frodo and Gollum outside the black gate) so I just put it away.
Then one fine day in may I needed a book that I didn't finish at once so I started reading and got hooked at once! In two weeks I finished the whole thing. That summer my mom bought me the hobbit and silmarillion..... |
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01-10-2003, 11:51 AM | #104 | |
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01-10-2003, 04:22 PM | #105 |
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LOTR
It was recommended by a friend.
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Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing? Where is the hand on the harpsting, and the red fire glowing? Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing? They have past like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow; The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. Who shall gather the smoke of the dead wood burning, or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning? Frodo lives |
01-10-2003, 04:30 PM | #106 | |
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01-10-2003, 05:35 PM | #107 | |
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01-10-2003, 05:36 PM | #108 |
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Yeah, I noticed that
(see profile)
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01-10-2003, 05:42 PM | #109 |
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01-10-2003, 07:05 PM | #110 |
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I read The Hobbit by myself when I was 8, because I found it in my parent's bookshelf and liked the front page picture. Since then, I dont know how many times Ive read it. After The Hobbit, I became interested in Tolkien's other books. I think I was 10 or 11 when I started LotR. Ive read that a few times since then also.
ummm...now Im reading Unfinished Tales (ish, I mean its cool and very informative.
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01-10-2003, 07:26 PM | #111 |
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Welcome, Pimpernel! (And Silje too, of course)
Enjoy your stay! There's a welcoming thread down in the General messages, if you want to introduce yourself.
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01-13-2003, 10:39 AM | #112 |
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My dad read the series to me when I was in third grade, but I really had know idea what was going on. I half understood the parts with Frodo and Sam, but I never really had any idea who Aragorn was. Then, when I was in eighth grade, I decided that I would give the Hobbit a try, because I didn't remember anything except a faint recollection of a dragon. I was very into fantasy at the time, and still am. So, I read it, loved it, and then read Lord of the Rings three times and the Silmarillion once.
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01-13-2003, 04:27 PM | #113 |
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I read LotR because I wanted to be able to say "Oh, I've read that" when people talk about it... I love it for what it is now though!
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01-13-2003, 08:25 PM | #114 |
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i read lord of the rings because my best friend samwiselover2008 draged me into it!
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Go Samwiselvr! Hee Hee Heee! I dragged my friend Sara into it!
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01-14-2003, 01:31 AM | #116 |
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You bloody Norwegians get around, don't you?
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01-14-2003, 11:01 AM | #117 |
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I dragged about five of my friends into reading it, but only one stuck with it. At least she loves it.
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01-14-2003, 11:32 AM | #118 |
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When I first read the Silmarillion, I completely did not get it. So I abandoned it for a long time. But then later, I decided to give it another try, and walla! it was great! Very informative, interesting, and on an even larger scale than LotR (when I first tried, I skipped to the back, and I was very angry that LotR was barely mentioned! I mean, it's obviously WAAAY more important than any of this other stuff! )
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01-14-2003, 10:38 PM | #120 |
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I had never read the books until I saw the fiirst movie. I am amazed that did as good a job in rendering the story as they did. Anyhow I have read the trilody and am utterly wsmitten with middle earth and its peoples
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