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 Post subject: Re: How old were you when you read LotR for the first time?
PostPosted: May 4th, 2013, 9:24 pm 
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We've got one of those editions that have all three books combined, not sure which edition it is, but yeah, I did read all of the books in that amount of time :)

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 Post subject: Re: How old were you when you read LotR for the first time?
PostPosted: May 5th, 2013, 7:41 pm 
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I personally like to read books in one sitting, or as few sittings as possible. I don't like to be jolted out of my reading unless it's absolutely necessary [or life gets in the way]. With Tolkien's works though, I find his separation of sections reasonable and easy to follow/pick up after breaks. But it seems to be the most intense reading experience when you digest something all at once!

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 Post subject: Re: How old were you when you read LotR for the first time?
PostPosted: May 6th, 2013, 2:09 am 
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Well even though it will make me feel old & even more out of place I will still answer. I read books for 1st time at age of 42 as I was not a fan until I was 41 yrs old.

The more I have frequented this forum, especially since The Hobbit came out, I have realized that most of you are ALOT younger than me & most are female, as I am guessing alot of you are about same age as my 19 yr old daughter. But I love to read the posts made as this is only place I have found people that love the stories of Middle Earth like I do. I just cant seem to find good talk about LOTR anywhere & only have 1 friend thats read the books & he can only take so much of my desire to talk LOTR nonstop lol, so it is nice to be able to come here & find that same love I have for the story.
Well I probably rambled on too much about age difference, but I may be old compared to most of you young ladies & gents but I tear up as quick as anybody when thinking of the deaths of Aragorn & Arwen. Lol :)

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 Post subject: Re: How old were you when you read LotR for the first time?
PostPosted: May 6th, 2013, 2:16 am 
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To look at that I have read LotR only a little more than three years ago ^^ So I feel really young among you, not mention the older members who know Tolkien as well as their own mother ^^

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 Post subject: Re: How old were you when you read LotR for the first time?
PostPosted: May 6th, 2013, 2:22 am 
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Ha I'm the same age as your daughter, Most Precious Gollum - I wish my parents were as interested in LotR as I was!

Moist, I think you and I are the same age...and I read LotR six years ago, so I definitely have plenty of more rereads to go. There are several active members who are in the 11-13 age range I've noticed, so they're the really young ones! Reminds me of myself not too long ago, when the LotR fever was really high. ^^

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 Post subject: Re: How old were you when you read LotR for the first time?
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Yes, we are both 19 ^^ And yes, I noticed few really young members too - I feel as young as them though. I am on massive reading spree and I am reading as crazy and should re-read the Tolkien books since I joined this board and need to remind some things.

It's great to see that people younger than me are reading LotR, I don't know like ANYONE who read LotR besides my mother and sister. Most people from my family are "bleeh" on Tolkien. I tried to convince my cousins (they are 13) and they said it's stupid book.

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 Post subject: Re: How old were you when you read LotR for the first time?
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When the LotR fever was everywhere it was EPIC!

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Moist von Lipwig wrote:
It's great to see that people younger than me are reading LotR, I don't know like ANYONE who read LotR besides my mother and sister. Most people from my family are "bleeh" on Tolkien. I tried to convince my cousins (they are 13) and they said it's stupid book.

Same! None of my close friends have read Tolkien, though most have seen the films. T___T I have no one in real life to share my passion with. Except for you guys! :kick:

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 Post subject: Re: How old were you when you read LotR for the first time?
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I remember how people went crazy about wanting to read the books when the movies started coming out. I remember the queuing outside the theater at midnight to see the world premiere. Man, that was epic on a whole different level.

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 Post subject: Re: How old were you when you read LotR for the first time?
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I remember that hype but I was very little then :P I prefer the current calm attitude. Of course I was whole for the movies but I haven't read the books yet so I felt incomplete ^^

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 Post subject: Re: How old were you when you read LotR for the first time?
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I liked the craze then. I was at the right age for it. Now I'd still enjoy it, but probably just get annoyed with all the screaming and scrambling people. xD

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Nicole wrote:
Ha I'm the same age as your daughter, Most Precious Gollum - I wish my parents were as interested in LotR as I was!.


That is funny you say that about your parents as the situation was vice-versa in our home since my daughter thought I was insane for awhile after I become a LOTR fan...... but as of about 2 months ago my daughter has been converted! She decided to watch the movies with me & loved them so much she watched them again....she hasnt read the books yet but Im not pushing the issue as I am thrilled now that I can say things in the house like "we wants it, we needs it, must have the precious" and she laughs instead of looking at me like im insane lol :-D

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When the LotR fever was everywhere it was EPIC!


I have thought about this many times & always thinking how freaking awesome it would have been to be a fan at the time.
At least I got a taste of it with The Hobbit as it is very nice walking thru stores & seeing things about the Hobbit all around

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Most Precius Gollum, in my case it was similiar, my mother showed me Lord of the Rings ;) She have read it before my birth nad loved it! I think I have my love for fantasy after my mum ^^

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Moist von Lipwig wrote:
Most Precius Gollum, in my case it was similiar, my mother showed me Lord of the Rings ;) She have read it before my birth nad loved it! I think I have my love for fantasy after my mum ^^


That's great! Did you mom first read them in school? A lot of school classes when I was young would choose a book for the class to study, some of the classes chose the Hobbit but mine chose "Of Mice & Men" :'-(

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 Post subject: Re: How old were you when you read LotR for the first time?
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No, she was frequent guest of the libraries. She can't even count how many books she has read. And Lord of the Rings was one of them, a library treasure ;)

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Bellatrix wrote:
When the LotR fever was everywhere it was EPIC!


I have thought about this many times & always thinking how freaking awesome it would have been to be a fan at the time.
At least I got a taste of it with The Hobbit as it is very nice walking thru stores & seeing things about the Hobbit all around


It was a lot of fun really. We did loads of LotR project in school as well, I remember.

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