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Aunt Dora Baggins
Immortal
Jul 7 2015, 5:04am
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Different strokes for different folks
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Those chapters are some of my very favorites. I wouldn't miss the view of Woodhall through the trees for anything.
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joec_34
Rivendell
Jul 7 2015, 3:08pm
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Long-forgotten memories of Rankin Bass unearthed by reading The Hobbit.
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I saw the Rankin Bass Hobbit on television when I was fairly young. I had forgotten about it nearly entirely, except for a haunting image of a wretched creature with large, dead eyes who was screaming for his birthday present.
Then, in middle school, I had to read a sizeable book from the library every month for my language arts class. My friend, A.K. Ibrahim recommended that I read The Hobbit & the three books of The Lord of the Rings. Four interesting books to satisfy my course requirements without making me fall asleep of boredom. About halfway through the book I recognized Gollum, and was all the more interested in finishing the book! Those were the first books that I couldn't put down.
So...Rankin-Bass introduced me to Tolkien's sotries, but A.K. Ibrahim introduced me to Tolkien's books. A hearty thank you to both of them!
p.s. sorry for all the exclamation points. I guess I was excited about this poll. Thanks, Ataahua.
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Brethil
Half-elven
Jul 7 2015, 4:32pm
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Yes. I was 22 when I first read it but the feeling was the same.
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I was so in love with it, and just about everyone living in it. And you know how passionately one loves at 15.
Never stopped.
Like a delayed but passionate attachment, like noting I had read before. I think the Sil suffered for it though in the first read, right after LOTR: I kept flipping through chapters looking for Hobbits, or Rangers (mmm...cities fall, OK hmmm Niniel hmmm, yes, very tragic OK WHERE are the HOBBITS!!???). It took a few years for the LOTR/TH to really settle in before I could branch out and embrace more.
Years later I had a similar reaction to reading Dune; I have the same issue embracing other facets of that universe too. First book is inclusive for me. But if I had to choose a world, it would absolutely be Middle-earth, hands down.
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swordwhale
Tol Eressea
Jul 9 2015, 3:26pm
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(a really brief history of my time in Middle Earth)
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In 1977, a wild black mare was born on the high desert of eastern Oregon (I'd meet her, and she would train me, in 1985), another "wild black mare" was launched at Inner Harbor Baltimore (I'd sail on her sister, the Pride of Baltimore II, on Halloween of 2007), Star Wars hit the screen, and a fellow fan dumped a pile of reading material into my hands.
"You must read this," she intoned.
I stared at the stack of verbiage and paled. Lo!, in my copious free time, somewhere in the next millennium. The epic tome was J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.
Somewhat later, I borrowed a tent from a second cousin twice removed, so I could spend a week on a desert island called Assateague. He told me about this game they played: D&D.
I showed up, rolled up a character, waved the paper at the DM and said, "What do I make of this?"
"Play an Elf."
"What?" You mean like Hermie, in Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer?
"Read Lord of the Rings."
I did, in 1978. Bakshi's film was in theaters, and I saw the it before I had finished the book, though some illustrations by Judy King-Reniets influenced my sense of what things looked like far more.
Thirty years, many fantasy illustrations, several "fanfics", essays and re-readings later, I'm still a fan of the original fantasy epic that spawned the rest.
LOTR was born the same year I was.
I was already a sci-fi fantasy fan (heavier on the sci-fi/Star Trek part). The thing about LOTR was: I recognized so much; I recognized the archetypal characters, the epic adventure, it all seemed familiar territory, as if I had come home.
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TaliaEmerald
Bree
Feb 25 2016, 1:42am
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I watched all three films with my dad when I was ten and it was one of the best parts of my life.  
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