Just felt like starting a topic
I was wondering when people started reading FotR, why they were inspired to do so and whether they have any funny stories about it.
I first read LotR when I was 9 (with the help of a dictionary) because I absolutely adored the hobbit. When I told my mother I wanted to buy it she told me that she had a copy in the loft and so I hauled the giant hard-back three in one book down-stairs and read it. It was really a coincidence because when I was half-way through FotR I saw ads for the movie on TV.
I read it because my parents said that I had to if I wanted to see the movies. So origionally I just read the books to see the movies. But I got so incredibly sucked into the books on that first night I began (February 4th, 2002) that after that I didn't care about the movies anymore (until I saw them 
But I never actually finished it until 10, before that, I was quite happy reading up to "Many Meetings", and going no further. 
After finishing LotR, well... let's just say I was never the same again. 
) and had seen the first two movies before my mother finally relented, and in late January, my dad took me to see Return of the King. It was truly awesome.
