The first time I read the trilogy, I was somewhere in my '30s. Embraced it again when the movies came out. Of course, I heard it on the same Led Zep album you did, but I did not understand the reference at the time.
I was about 12 when I read the trilogy for the first time. I must say, I thought it was the dumbest books I'd read in a long time - he had to describe EVERYthing, and why did it have to take years and years, and so many pages, just for a dumb hobbit to walk a little way over to a mountain and toss a dumb ring into it?
In high school I got quite into fantasy, and eventually decided to try LotR again. And I fell in love. Oddly enough, I don't own the books myself (I do have the extended movie set though) but I have read them many many times. In fact, I used to get motion sickness very easily, but I credit reading LotR on my 50 min bus ride in Winnipeg for more or less curing me of that.
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The first time I read the trilogy, I was somewhere in my '30s. Embraced it again when the movies came out. Of course, I heard it on the same Led Zep album you did, but I did not understand the reference at the time.
I was about 12 when I read the trilogy for the first time. I must say, I thought it was the dumbest books I'd read in a long time - he had to describe EVERYthing, and why did it have to take years and years, and so many pages, just for a dumb hobbit to walk a little way over to a mountain and toss a dumb ring into it?
In high school I got quite into fantasy, and eventually decided to try LotR again. And I fell in love. Oddly enough, I don't own the books myself (I do have the extended movie set though) but I have read them many many times. In fact, I used to get motion sickness very easily, but I credit reading LotR on my 50 min bus ride in Winnipeg for more or less curing me of that.
Yikes. Long comment.
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