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did you like LotR as soon as you watched and/or read them?
Poll ended at October 9th, 2006, 7:44 pm
yes, I LOVED IT! 58%  58%  [ 7 ]
well, i had to watch and/or read them a few times to get into it 42%  42%  [ 5 ]
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 Post subject: How Were You Introduced to LotR?
PostPosted: September 25th, 2006, 7:44 pm 
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How did LotR come into your life?
This is how i got into it. My friend had a weekend movie party to watch all the LotR in three nights. it was presidents day weekend. sat sun & mon nights. We watched the Fellowship sat night, TTT sunday night then RotK on Monday night. THE EXTENDED EDITIONS WERE SO COOL!! i loved it so much! i got into it as soon as i saw it! i looked up stuff on the internet all the time and watched them 24/7 w/ my friend @ her house. then i started reading them. LotR was one of the best things that ever happened to me! hehehe :) even though i might sound a little crazy. :)
LotR ROX! :punk: that's how i found this sight.
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Well my friends went crazy over it when ROTK came out, I got more interested and wanted to see the movie, but my parents said I had to read the book first... SO I read all three in a week so I could see the movie, but then I had to wait for my other sister so we could all watch it together, she took 6 months! :swoon: So eventually I got to see it and have been obsessed with it ever since.

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At first when it came out I was like: Oh great. Some stupid movie about a stupid ring. how dumb can you get? but my friends said it was the best thing EVER and so I became more interseted, and then I saw the movies. I was becoming obsessed. I went online and discovered LOTS of lotr sites and learned alot about the story and the genious behind the story, Tolkien himself. I have been obsessed ever sense and am in the process of reading the books.

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OMG me 2, my parents wanted me to read the books first so i was like, umm.. see u in a few hours! lol, and not to brag, but my bff started this and she is awesome!! LUV U VIC!!! lol, but lotr has made my life even aweesomeer!!! hehehe 8)

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OMG HI! havent' seen u here! but now i have! thanks for the credit for that! I'm very proud! hehehe. :)

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My dad read The Hobbit to me when I was about...6 years old, I think. lol. Maybe I'm sort of a Tolkien-reading child prodigy?

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My mother introduced me to LOTR. Whoo! Three cheers for my mom!
She tried to get me to read FOTR when I was like 6, but I didn't have the patience to read it but, then the movie came out and then I decided "Hey! These books and movies look cool! Mom I'll take that book now!" :P

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the 1st time i watched the movies was when TTT came out on DVD cos my brother hired the movie and my other bro had FotR so i watched both.then i saw RotK at the cinemas.i read the books sometime after i saw the movies.

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The first time I watch FOTR I was really scared...I was only 8 :P So it took me a while to get into it. I'm one of the people who read LOTR after the films came out...*ducks thrown objects*

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The second one suits me well. I was pretty scared when I heard of Nazgul's screams but as I watched more of it I like them too. Story seemed interesting since I was roleplaying with my friends in the high school before.

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When the first movie came out, I went with my parents to watch it. And of course I loved it! So I asked my mom if she had the book and she said yeah and gave it to me to read. So then I totally became hooked and asked for the others to read too. And when the other two movies came out, well I just had to see them.

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there was a period in my life when i absolutely DESPISED LotR ... i can't believe how i could've but i did ... now i'm an absolute freak! before, when TTT came out my sis wanted to go watch it but i threw a tantrum and said that i hate LotR and that i wanna watch HP cos it was out at the same time. sad.


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^ lol Haldir. I had read HP before LotR but the latter just claimed me. No fear, I also had my period obsession with HP.

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Haldir o Lórien wrote:
there was a period in my life when i absolutely DESPISED LotR ... i can't believe how i could've but i did ... now i'm an absolute freak! before, when TTT came out my sis wanted to go watch it but i threw a tantrum and said that i hate LotR and that i wanna watch HP cos it was out at the same time. sad.


dont hurt me! :hide:


I forgive you my child for the sin you have committed :P :D yeah I do not mean it just kidding making an imitation as a priest hehe

Do not worry Haldir we know that you mean no harm that day :P

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:teehee: teehee thanks guys ... i can so not believe what i thought about LotR before ... OMGOSH and i'll admit now that when i was very small i was one of those ignorant children who was positive that Tolkien copied Rowling! :'(

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*Shields eyes* Ahhh....must...not....read...

Just kidding, Haldir :) Though I might have a hard time forgiving you for that one! :D

Well, when I was 11 my cousin was absolutely LotR crazy, and my mom didn't want to let me see it but my cousin practically begged her. So I saw it, and I was pretty impressed, and I saw TTT in the same weekend, but when I discovered RotK wasn't out for another year I decided I needed to try and read those books again. I'd tried when I was 7 or 8 but I got really bogged down. It did take me a while to get into them, however - it was by no means love at first sight.

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