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Off Topic: The Pollantir:
To the best of my memory...:
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Eldy
Tol Eressea
Dec 27 2023, 6:29am
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To the best of my memory...
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I didn't realise you were a game-firster; what a cool way to be introduced to Middle-earth. How long were you playing it before you saw the FOTR movie?
...probably something like six months, but I read the books in the interim. My dad's been a casual LOTR book fan since he was in high school, and he'd bought me a box set of them months earlier, but it took the video games to spark my interest.  I had lots of questions of the setting and lore, one of which was "what are orcs?" A kid I knew told me they were "men made from mud," which I found unsatisfyingly vague, so I decided to read the books to find out more. I watched the movies afterwards, but my parents had a thing about PG-13 films at the time, so they made me skip all of TTT and a couple portions of ROTK for ostensibly being too violent. I didn't properly watch the whole trilogy until about three years later, once PG-13 films were no longer off-limits.
(In retrospect, I don't necessarily think my parents were wrong to have reservations about me watching the films; movie!Gollum freaked me out pretty bad when I was 9yo.  But their main objection was the violence, on account of being Quakers.)
I've not met many other game-firsters (though Charlie Vickers is apparently one!), but I enjoyed my weird trajectory into Tolkien fandom. It probably influenced my mixed stance on the films of disliking changes but loving so much else about them, which felt uncommon when I first dipped my toes into online arguments about LOTR. Though there's undoubtedly selection bias at play there, and I might have met more people with stances like mine if I hadn't enjoyed arguing so much. 
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