How did you hear or read about LOTR the first time?

I did when I first saw the FOTR in 2001.. and then I did EVERYTHING I could to research and learn ANYTHING about Tolkien and his masterpiece of writings... When did you?

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I first heard about the books when I was eight and my teacher talked about them. At that point I read the Hobbit because she said it was a bit like the Narnia books which I loved. A few years later I read LotR

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At first I thought LotR was stupid... Once I started reading the books, but I saw names like Frodo and Bilbo, and thought they were stupid too, and stopped reading the book.

That year my uncle got the first movie as a present, and I still thought is was stupid..

Then my brothers lend the first movie from the Library, and I saw I little bit of it... and couldn't stop looking.
When they we're finished, I took the movie, and watched it several times...

I asked the book for my birthday, and read it out in a few days, bought the other books close after that, and was just in time to watch the second movie in the cinema (it stopped 2 days later ) From that time I had to read and watch everything that was related to LotR...

I still don't understand why I never finished reading the book in te first place. I love that kind of books now... Maybe I just wasn't ready yet...

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I first heard about the books. My mom tried to get me to read them about a year or two before the movies came out. I did not have the patience to read them at first. Then I saw the movies and I decided to read the books all the way through.

Yeah I think I was alot like you Simbelmyne. I don't think I was ready yet

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i guess i was 10 or eleven when the movies started coming out...my brother had some friends over and they watched FotR but i fell asleep before they even made it out of Hobbiton.
so then like 2 years after that my brother got me The Hobbit for Christmas...i never finished reading it.
then, about 2 years after that, my LotR-obsessed friend came over to spend the night and TTT was on TV and she HAD to watch it so we watched it like 3 times in a row and i fell in love.
so i borrowed her books and read them.
it didn't take me long to finish the books, but it took several months to finish the movies. i never got the chance to watch them. i guess you could say i was introduced to both the books and the movies at the same time. because my friend and i, we are the biggest bookworms ever.

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My Mom introduced me to the books-I read The Hobbit, then the trilogy and loved them! I actually didn't see FotR when it first came out because I thought it wouldn't be very close to the book. Then my family checked it out when it was released on DVD. We watched it twice in 24 hours. lol

A friend of mine, after RotK came out in theaters, constantly ranted about how incredibly excellent this film was. I begged my parents to let me see it, and while my Dad had no argument, my mother insisted I was too young. (This was in DEcember.) So, I checked out FotR from the library and began to read. I was awestruck, and fell in love immediently. I moved on the reading TTT, and then, to my surprise, my mother consented to let me see RotK.

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Well, we know this family with three girls that are truly obsessed with lotr, and when I was nine, the oldest one said something about how those were the best books ever. Then a while later, I was staying over at my aunt and uncle's house for a few days, and I had woke up really early. I was bored, and I picked up the Hobbit, read a few chapters and fell in love. I wasn't quite sure what to think at first, but I was obsessed with Narnia back then, so when I picked it up, I thought it was a lot like Narnia, and that's how I got started.

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in year 6 we had excerpts from teh hobbit in our book and then this girl got teh actual book adn started to read it. i might have borrowed it once but i gave it back. in year 8 we actually watched FotR in school to compare it to HP and i was stupid and idiotic since i got really scared adn i didnt really understand the plot. i remember i was really mad when they ended it since i wanted to know what happens. i thought that something was wrong with the dvd. anyway, later i learned that it was just the first part of an awesome trilogy. i saw the movie again at my cousins and thats where i fell in love and went totally physco about the whole thing.

Same thing happpened to me.

I discovered it three years ago when I watched the movie with my firends, then I got into the books and I've been a fan since!

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I was first introduced to LotR through the books. I'd gotten "The Hobbit" as a Christmas gift. When I finished it, I continued on to read LotR, and discovered that even though "The Hobbit" was good, I liked LotR even better. I reread the trilogy several times until the FotR film came out. I think the movies really kicked my inner obsessive fan into gear, though. ;D

That's a good start.

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I heard about th efotr film a few months before release and I gotth ebook, loved it and boughgt th erest of th etrilogy. I fell in love with tolkiens writings and have seen all th efilms lol.

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see i can remember my first LOTR experience it was after the TTT had even come out. Me and my friend were watcing TTT on a portable DVD player in her living room an i didn't understand it because i hadn't watched FOTR and so i went back rented the movies and watched all of them and i fell in love with the magic of JRR Tokien and LOTR

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As a rule, I'm not really a fantasy fan, so I originally had no interest in LotR at all. It was actually a friend of mine who is an unashamed Legolas Fangirl who got me into it. She insisted that I simply had to watch FotR (which had just come out on satellite T.V. at the time) because I must see and marvel at the fabulous blonde haired bloke. I wasn't particularly moved by Legolas (not my type!), but I discovered that the story itself was not what I was expecting at all - and really got into it.

Shamefully, I wasn't going to read the book (as I'd heard that it was notoriously difficult to get into). But I then agreed to give the book a go as a promise to another completely hardcore fan of the story. It had some difficult moments in it as I will admit that the beginning is a bit of a slog to get through - but once the story got into gear I was hooked (although it took me ages to finish trying to fit it around everything else as I'm not the world's fastest reader!).

I'm still not really into the Fantasy genre on the whole, but as for LotR, I'm hooked!

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