When did you first read The Hobbit?

[Laurëwen]

I was just wondering,when you all first read The Hobbit?

I first read it on my 9th birthday when I got it as a present from my mum and dad...
That's how I got into everything Tolkien...

Is there anyone else out there who started reading Tolkien as a child,or did most of you discover the magic as adults?

[Nessa the Dancer]

I first had it read to me when I was about 8 or 9. My mother was a great believer in bedtime storytime, we got through tons of books. The Hobbit was one of them. She did all the voices to it was great :grin: And yep I was hooked from then on. I never got read Lord of the rings though my brother did hehe

[Telumehtar]

I read the Hobbit in third grade, then the rest of the trilogy in fourth. That's about the time I got hooked, and started carrying around miscellaneous quotes in a baggie. lol I was such a Tolkien junkie....
~Telu :flamer:

[Gwaihir]

I remember reading the Hobbit when I was around 13 or so, and though I really liked the story, it didn't get me interested in LotR. It was a few years later when I finally read LotR. I've been crazy about it ever since!

[Mirkgirl]

Well as usual, I was walking the other way round - I was like 9 when I read the trilogy and then many years after (inbetween having read the silm too) I got the hobbit. No wonder it didn't make that much of impression er?

[Glorfindel]

Same here. I read LotR first, and only some years later I read the Hobbit for the first time. I had read the Silmarillion between the two of them aswell. There wasn't much impression of the Hobbit either :p

[Cassandria]

I read the Hobbit over thirty years ago when I was a junior in high school. I started a bit of a fad when I nic-named all my friends and family charactor names. Like my brother was Gandalf because he was older, wiser and quick tempered just like the ol' wiz. lol My cousin Tommy was Bilbo cos he was short, round and liked to eat. I had a friend that was tall and elegant so she became Elrond. Ha! lol LotR came later in my early twenties. I was really hooked. :grin: I've always adored cute little hobbitses! lol

[SamwiseAtHeart]

I read the hobbit 5 years ago when I was 12 in the seventh grade, I didn't read LOTR after I finished because of lack of interest, difficulty of the language (think, I'm 12 then), and I just didn't feel like it. I read the trilogy after FOTR TE came out, my dad bought it and we watched it as a family and I was hooked. We went on vacation that next day and Ibrought a coply of FOTR and read it on the plane.

[Mithril]

I first read it way back in the dark ages, in 1972, which was when I first read Lord of the Rings. I started reading LOTR first, it wasn't making sense, so then I bought the Hobbit, read that, then started with LOTR again, then it made sense, and that was it- hooked for life! lol

[Heart-of-a-Hobbit]

I first heard The Hobbit read to me by our journeyman when I was 10 or 11. I loved it!!! :grin: I read it again maybe three times after that. Then I asked my Mom if there was a sequel and she gave me The Fellowship of the Ring. She told me it was a lot harder to read. I started reading it and didn't get past Bruinen. :blush: I just didn't understand it, maybe I was going too fast or something. But I stopped there. I saw FotR in November 2002 :o (yeah, a whole year after it was released) and right after viewing the movie I ran and got The Fellowship of the Ring and read it all the way through in one night. I finished the trilogy that weekend. :ring:

[Colette]

I started reading it about 6 weeks ago. I really enjoy it. I'm just useless with books. I have about 4 or 5 that I've got more than half way through with a book mark stuck in it!

I'm going to read now!

[Colette]

I first heard The Hobbit read to me by our journeyman when I was 10 or 11. I loved it!!! :grin: I read it again maybe three times after that. Then I asked my Mom if there was a sequel and she gave me The Fellowship of the Ring. She told me it was a lot harder to read. I started reading it and didn't get past Bruinen. :blush: I just didn't understand it, maybe I was going too fast or something. But I stopped there. I saw FotR in November 2002 :o (yeah, a whole year after it was released) and right after viewing the movie I ran and got The Fellowship of the Ring and read it all the way through in one night. I finished the trilogy that weekend. :ring:

Can I just take my hat off to you - high 5 to you friend, for reading that in that space of time!

[Heart-of-a-Hobbit]

well thank you!!

[Randiriel of Wilderland]

I guess I did it all completely backwards-- :p I watched the movies first while visiting my son and family in England, THEN the next day I got my daughter-in-law to take me to the nearest bookstore for the books. :p Have watched the movies and read the books more times than I can keep track of!! lol Thoroughly hooked-also have all other Tolkien books that I can find, which are the first things in my suitcase when I go somewhere!! lol

[IronHills Dwarf]

At the tender age of six.... :rolleyes:

Course I'd been exposed to LotR first when I was 3. :grin:

[Cuiel Rilwen]

I read the Hobbit when I was 14. All this leaving home and going on adventures scared the heck out of me, mostly because deep down I relized that I needed to do just that! I read LotR at 18, and then I left my home to start the journey!

[Lessa]

I too read lotr at 18, (good grief that's 24 yrs ago) my then b/f introduced me to it. Thus began a lifelong obsession, for Lotr not him. I read fotr that weekend got the rest of the books that week and I was hooked.
I read the Hobbit afterwards. I wish I'd read it first really as the style of writing is so different that after the complexity of lotr it was a bit of a disappointment. Now I know better, you just have to view it as a classic childrens story, then it is fascinating.

Lessa

[Sindarin]

I first read The Hobbit in 1987 when I was seven years old. That's when I first became enchanted with Tolkein's world of mythology. It wasn't until the following year when I began to read the LotR trilogy.

[Arriel Ohtarwen]

I do believe that I was about 10.... but that is not positive. I remember flipping through the pictures of the old copy with photographs in it when I was quite a bit younger.

[Mouth Of Sauron]

I read it about January 2004 when I was 14. Then I read the LOTR next, and have become a crazed fan of The Hobbit and LOTR! :)

[ImDaMom]

Like Cass, I read it as a junior in high school, after our class did a production of "The Hobbit" (I was an elf...a rather humorous thought as I'm so much more hobbitt-y) Right after that, I jumped into LOTR, and have ever since. Let's see- I was a junior in high school in 1971-2, so it was a lonnnnngggggggg time ago! lol

[Amithrellas]

*searches rusty memory* :idea:
I was eleven... though I went about it a bit backwards :blush: -- read Lord of the Rings first...

[Tári Celebrindal]

I read The Hobbit first before LOTR. I was 15 or 16 then. I was looking for books to borrow in our school library, and I saw this green, dusty book in a corner. When I looked at the borrower's card, no one was written on it, no one ever borrowed it, and I felt bad for the book, odd as it may sound. ("No one ever borrowed this? But it looks interesting..." :o :( ) So that's why I decided to borrow it myself, and boy, am I ever glad I did that. :grin:

[Heart-of-a-Hobbit]

Oh how sad!!! No one ever checked it out!!

Where is your library Tari? I've never seen any in Manila.

[Tári Celebrindal]

It's actually my high school library. They have a wonderful collection there, unfortunately not a lot of students take advantage of it. :(

[Heart-of-a-Hobbit]

Ooooh, I see. Gosh, that is sad!

[Althane]

My mom first read it when I was about... 5...

And I've loved it ever since. ^_^

[Goldor Urukbane]

Um..... summer of 2002. After I read The Lord of the Rings. And I read both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings like three times. Lot of time on my hands back then. :rolleyes:

[Luvara]

Hmm.... I read it after I'd read The Lord of the Rings, and that was shortly after FotR came out!

[Mouth Of Sauron]

December '03 after I had watched ROTK. Before I had read any of LOTR books.

[Isilme_cu]

I bought it in a boxed paperback set after TTT and before ROTK. But I waited to read the books until after I had seen all the movies. I read The Hobbit after the 3 LOTR books. As soon as I had seen ROTK, I cracked open the box! :)

[The Hobbit]

Oh mi gosh! That is EXACTLY what i did! I hadn't scene ROTK yet but i went ahead and read The Hobbit and as soon as i saw ROTK i opened the box! I got the boxed paper bag set too! The one with Frodo from the movie, on Fellowship, Leggy on TTT and Aragorn on ROTK. That is weird! I finished The Hobbit in December
The Hobbit :rolleyes:

[Cheatmaster]

I first read the hobbit when i was 6 yr of age :cool:

[Huan]

When did I first read the hobbit? Hmmm let me think back..

Well I was sitting on the toilet and I glimpsed two books on the bathroom floor, mildly interested I picked up the first book (Which was Pride and Predjidice) taking no interest I put it down, but reading the blurb on the second book named "The Hobbit" I became transfixed in reading it.

Very enjoyable novel. If there is any better books (Not including the LOTR trilogy) I will be going to the bathroom a lot more.

[Lady Éowyn]

I think it was in February 2002, but I saw The Hobbit at Finland's National Opera as a ballet in October 2001. It was great!

[Mithrilmailler]

i think my first time reading The Hobbbit was in 7th grade. so that would have been 96 or 97 (not sure if i read it before christmas or after). its about time to read it again though

[Evermind]

I think it was in February 2002, but I saw The Hobbit at Finland's National Opera as a ballet in October 2001. It was great!
Wow! It has been as an opera here in Finland?! Damn, where was I that time
:angry:

I read The Hobbit for the fist time, when I was... on the seventh grade. We had to do a school book project, and I chose it. I had'nt read LotR yet, and I really got interested about it after reading Hobbit, because it was so great! Now I have read it twice in Finnish, and once in English.

[Aletheia]

Have I ever posted in here before? :huh: I cant remember :blush:
Anyways I first read the Hobbit in 4th or 5th grade I believe...that woulda been 1995-96ish....& I have been a Tolkien-addict ever since! veryhappy

~Leia:rose:~

ps-I wish I could speek Finnish, that would be cool :cool:

[Evermind]

Have I ever posted in here before? :huh: I cant remember :blush:
Anyways I first read the Hobbit in 4th or 5th grade I believe...that woulda been 1995-96ish....& I have been a Tolkien-addict ever since! veryhappy

~Leia:rose:~

ps-I wish I could speek Finnish, that would be cool :cool:

I've also been an addict since I read it :) Before it I was like "What the hell is everyone talking about this LotR, it can't be so wonderful!" But when I read The Hobbit, I realized the hey! this is awesome! :D


You realy do?! :D It is very hard language to learn, but also very beautiful one too ;)

[Frodo Brandybuck]

Greetings.

I was first introduced to The Hobbit when I was 10 years old. I was something of a nerd and an outsider because all I did was read books. So I stumbled across it at a garage sale, and was immediately hooked. I then had me mom buy me the trilogy. By the time my English teacher wanted us to read them for class, I had already done so..but I will admit, I read them again! :)

[WaMoZ]

Well, in about the middle of '01 I thought I've got to read LotR before the first movie comes out in December. So I started by reading the FotR prologue, and by page 4 when JRRT was explaining the Harfoots, Stoors and Fallohides I was thoroughly cheesed off with all of this (possibly unnecessary) detail. Then I thought, well, surely I'll understand all this better if I've first read The Hobbit. So I did, and enjoyed it immensely, and had no trouble with the FotR prologue, and the rest of FotR, and TTT, and RotK.

I've read The Hobbit 2 or 3 times, and LotR 4 times. I think it really helps to read The Hobbit first if you are a Tolkien virgin. Bilbo, Gandalf and Gollum just leap off the page of LotR if you know about their previous respective histories.

[Nereid]

Actually i got the book when I was a trainee at a bookstore last year lol
They gaved it to me and it become one of my favorit books! ;)

[Manveri Silverleaf]

I think I first got it in grade 8, which was about 96, 97 maybe. Read it every spare second I could (and times when I really shouldn't have lol) and adored it. I re-read it many times after, and now when I do my Tolkien read, it's the second book I go through.

[Onilalle]

My dad read it to me first when I was only little, (he is a Tolkien fan too) and I loved it, so the book means a lot to me. :blush: I still have the same copy he read me! :grin:

[Manveri Silverleaf]

My dad read it to me first when I was only little, (he is a Tolkien fan too) and I loved it, so the book means a lot to me. :blush: I still have the same copy he read me! :grin:

That is too neat....I'm the only bookworm in my family. But my mom did buy me a second copy of The Hobbit, which now is good because I have a boxed set of the trilogy and it matches the hobbit cover, so everything from Bilbo's first journey to his last all coordinates lol

[Onilalle]

Wow, that is cool! I love being a bookworm... It's my solace after a hellish week lol

[Manveri Silverleaf]

Yeah, I hope to have my own Tolkien library that is all his books and maybe trying to acquire original prints and the like. I'm a big collector too.

[Vorneniel]

i didn't read it first, actually, my dad started reading it to me one night a5t the beach on vacation, i think i was three lol that's my two cents ;)

[Shieldmaiden]

I first read The Hobbit in freshman year of high school (about four years ago) because I had just seen FotR in the theaters and I wanted to read the books. My friend told me that I should read The Hobbit first, so I took her advice...I love this story. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside...I mean, the songs and everything...I read it again in sophomore year so I could do a book report on it. :grin:

[Olyanë]

The Hobbit was first read to me, in utero, yep my folks admitted reading The Hobbit and LOTR to me in utero--then throughout my childhood, at least yearly we would read The Hobbit together, then at the age of 8, 25 years ago, I received my first set of LOTR and have not wandered from its paths since ;) :grin:
Anthony

[Cuiel Rilwen]

Wow...talk about being indoctrinated from childhood! lol Your parents must share a true love of Tolkien! ;)

[Arátoeldar]

It was seeing The Hobbit by Rankin & Bass on TV in 1978 that started my love affair with Tolkien's Books. I read The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings from copies that I borrowed from the library. That Christmas I got the paperback boxed edition of of both books.

[Andy]

Well we got it in school about 4 years ago (first year, so I was about 11/12) and I only read the first Chapter. They asked for it back a few years ago but I've not give it in yet! I think I should read it now lol

[Itarilde Telrunya]

I first read it about four or five years ago, when I was eleven or twelve. I'll admit that I should have read it sooner, and I know I could have, and believe me, I even wanted to. The main problem with this was that, well... my mom wanted me to read it. ~_^

Frankly, she's picked out some of the worst books possible for me. I've banned her from picking out books for me at the library, because her choices are always terrible. So it's only natural that I would have been skeptical of this book she <i>kept telling me to read.</i> Of course I finally gave in and read it, for which I'm grateful now. But being a stubborn mulish little kid I don't think I ever actually told her I liked it. n_n I think she got the idea, though, when I went out and bought it.

[Aragorn Isildur]

I first read it at school in about '92. We were reading it at the rate of a chapter a lesson, but by the end of the week I'd finished it while the rest of the class were still just getting into it lol Was kind of arkward if the teacher picked on me to read a particular passage, when i was at the other end of the book ;)

[Aragorn]

I think it was 1980 when we had to read Fellowship of the Ring for school. That was my introduction to Tolkien, and I decided to finish the trilogy on my own and then went back to read The Hobbit after that. I was disappointed that it was nowhere near as well written as LOTR, but then it was written as a child's book which I didn't know at the time. Regardless, the background for LOTR was good to get.

[Ithildiel Noldoran]

I read The Hobbit after reading LotR, I really could not find it before that!*sigh*I loved it from the very first pages, the story captivated me! :)

[Hector]

I first read the Hobbit when I was 8 or 9 years old. Then it was another 4years before I read the LOTR series.

[Luthien_Tinuviel]

i read it 3 years ago !!! :) :) :) :) when i have 15 years old ,
is an exelent book !!!!

[JemFinch]

Well, in about the middle of '01 I thought I've got to read LotR before the first movie comes out in December. So I started by reading the FotR prologue, and by page 4 when JRRT was explaining the Harfoots, Stoors and Fallohides I was thoroughly cheesed off with all of this (possibly unnecessary) detail.

That was my same reaction! I felt so overwhelmed...then realized I could skip it. lol I know of other people who were almost turned off by the books because of that. lol (Later on, I got people to read it, and was usually asked: Do I HAVE to read the beginning? lol )

Anyway....
I'm ashamed to say I never read the Hobbit by myself :blush: ...my dad read it to me and my sisters soon after the Fellowship was released, when I was eleven...he had been a fan since he himself had been eleven. When I was little he always told me, "You gotta read the Hobbit, you'll love it," but I was very stubborn and stupid and thought it and the Lord of the Rings would be boring and philosophical, so I became a fan of Harry Potter. :rolleyes: But then I saw FotR, was converted, and have not went a day thinking about the books or movie ever since. :grin:

[Cuiel Rilwen]

Hehehe...so there's still hope for my daughter...she's doing the same thing! Honestly I've read LotR like prob 10 times but it wasn't until the 4th or 5th time I read the prologue! Very tiring when you don't know what the story is about and want it to begin...but nevertheless it gets more interesting when you find yourself wanting to delve into the material! The Hobbit starts a bit boring like that too...when I was 12 I found it hard to begin.

Maybe it's just like that with good things...they're a bit hard to grasp in the beginning. Like if it was too easy it wouldn't thrill us as much and for so long!

[crazymonkey 4 frodo]

I started to read it quite a while ago. When I was....younger then I am now. That's funny...lol now that I think about it. It's great....lol I love that book I always read it before I read LOTR. EVERYTIME!!!!

[Peppyy]

well, i read it when i was 12 :grin:

[Durin's Bane]

I think I had just turned five the first time my dad and I read "The Hobbit" together, and I don't know how many times I've read it since then. 'Roast Mutton' and 'Riddles in the Dark' were the chapters that stood out the furthest for me - loved 'em. Gandalf stole the show for me, hands down. :cool:

[Periantari Andruil]

I first read the Hobbit after i saw TTT which was at the end of '02... and then subsequently i read all of LotR!

Bilbo rules!!!! :cool: (we seriously need a :blibo: smiley in here: ;) ) :nono: :cool:

[Flame of Anor]

I was ... 10? 11? Hm, something like this, can't remember exactly :-/

[Stormcrow]

A few years ago. When I was approximately 13.

[marc]

[B]:rolleyes: I read it for the first time bfore the first film of LOTR came out! I thought I should the hobbit to find out what happend before the LOTR.

Now Im at the End of The reture of the king!

What a a kick applepie book ppl!:dragon:

Mod Edit: Yup, this is a fine book, for sure. Welcome to WotR Marc! Please watch the language here though. Swear words are not allowed on a PG 13 site. ;) Any questions, please contact me. -Laurelin, moderator

[Stormcrow]

Good old Laur! :thumbs:

By the way, welcome to WOTR, Marc!

I have recently finished the Hobbit again and am now reading LOTR for the first (full) time. I have read bits and pieces before, but I have yet to read all of the books (please don't hurt me). :blush:

[Daughter of Feanor]

I think we had to read the Hobbit at school, maybe fourth grade or something...

[Peredhil]

I can't remember how old I was when I read The Hobbit, but I know it had to be when I was in elementary school. My eldest brother (who is 4 yrs older) had read The Hobbit and loved LOTR.

I dont really remember the first reading but I know I had to have been young, because in high school I pciked it up and read it again. While reading it, I came across the riddles that Gollum and Bilbo were testing wach other with and realized that I had one of them memorized. The one I remembered was:

Thirty white horses on a red hill,
First they champ, then they stamp,
Then they stand still.
What are they?..................Teeth

Apparently when I first read The Hobbit I thought the riddles were so clever that I wrote them down and memorized a few. Over the years, the only one I rememebered was the one about teeth but I could never remember where I got it from. When I read realized it was from The Hobbit I came running downstairs and told my brother about it. He wasn't as interested my discovery, though. **sigh** brothers!lol ~
:ring: --Peredhil

[Feliath]

Surprisingly, I just read it in the last couple of months. I read LOTR about 4 times and Unfinished tales before I read the Hobbit... I love it though. Its so much more lighthearted than LOTR- and yet you can still see impending evil in the form of the Necromancer and the goblins.

[Periantari Andruil]

and yet you can still see impending evil in the form of the Necromancer and the goblins.
i think this foreshadowing by Tolkien was unintended though it did give him so much to write about in LotR regarding it.
Though we must consider that he wrote Silmarillion before even the Hobbit and he must've thought about elements and story lines in the there and stuck it into the Hobbit as well.
Tolkien is such a genius... :thumbs:

[Mirkgirl]

Surprisingly, I just read it in the last couple of months. I read LOTR about 4 times and Unfinished tales before I read the Hobbit... I love it though. Its so much more lighthearted than LOTR- and yet you can still see impending evil in the form of the Necromancer and the goblins.
I read them in the same order too... maybe we're more inclined to see the darker/more serious side of it because of going through the trilogy first?

At the risk of getting stoned to dead, I don't think I wouldve grown that much a fan if I started with the hobbit...

[Leader of the Nine]

I think I was a year of 12. I love the book! :) :)

[Rohirrim Warrior]

I want read The Hobbit before release the movie... to imagine my own characters... and later see the other character of the movie

Now, I'm reading The Return of the King :)

Greetings! ;)

[Dunedain Poet]

I think I was fifteen and I started it shortly after I finished The Fellowhsip of the Ring.

My dad had urged me to read it earlier when I was thirteen/fourteen but being a teenager, I had a tendencey to do the oppisite of what my dad said in the case of recommanding movies and books. But I'm glad I eventually read it! :)

[Gollum the Great]

oh man...the 1st time i tryed to read it I was about....7? HAHAHA yeah...that didnt work out too well...so I just stuck to the movie till I was 12 and able to at least get the dwarves names right lol and for the longest time...I thought it was Bimbo Baggins!!! *say aww* LOL I have a feelin the next person will post a ":duh:"

[Gwaihir]

oh man...the 1st time i tryed to read it I was about....7? HAHAHA yeah...that didnt work out too well...so I just stuck to the movie till I was 12 and able to at least get the dwarves names right lol and for the longest time...I thought it was Bimbo Baggins!!! *say aww* LOL I have a feelin the next person will post a ":duh:"
Nah, I'm not as mean as people think! ;) lol Actually, Tolkien was going to name Frodo's character "Bingo", so Bimbo is not too far from it! (thank goodness he didn't use Bingo!)

[Bria]

I read The Hobbit right after The Fellowship of the Rings came out. That was when I first got interested and found out about the books.:read:

[Fingolfin]

Suilaid,

I think that I must have been a little clueless... I first read the Silmarillion and read it twice before I started the Hobbit and The LOTR... LOL To much longbottom I think.... ;)

[Ebrill]

I was around 13 or 14 when I first read the Hobbit. I did read the LOTR first before the Hobbit. :)

Fingolfin - What made you read the Sil first? I couldn't even imagine reading that book before LOTR.

[Fingolfin]

Well I read it because of the "Beginning" aspect of it... I like order and that was the way I wanted to start... I've read the Sil five times and I'm on my Sixth right now... I can't get enought of it... I've read the Hobbit and LOTR 4 times and loved them... Reading the Sil first gives you a whole new outlook on everything else....

[Gollum the Great]

So did you read the Hobbit before the Sil? or the Sil 1st? i myself am the type that likes to read things in order...but i didnt read the Sil till last sadly...still good stuff though ;) and love every bit of it....
Read LOTR =24 times
Hobbit=12
Sil=4 and about to start again

[Zebra3]

I first read The Hobbit when I was little. It was the first book I can remember reading on my own. At least it's one of the few books that made an impact on me as a kid. The Dark Crystal is another. As for the age? Maybe seven or eight.... not too sure though.

I really like to read the books in order as well. I just finished Sil and am starting Fellowship. I'm skipping the Hobbit because.... I can't find my copy :(

[hurin]

1985 junior in high school was instantly hooked from day on have been reading them every since then

[Fingolfin]

Read the Sil first.... I like things in order too... That way you really get the understanding of things.... Still... The Sil is my favorite out of all his works... Heck... It's what everything is based on! :grin:

So did you read the Hobbit before the Sil? or the Sil 1st? i myself am the type that likes to read things in order...but i didnt read the Sil till last sadly...still good stuff though ;) and love every bit of it....
Read LOTR =24 times
Hobbit=12
Sil=4 and about to start again

[ladyofthelight]

Read the hobbit a really long time ago, I try reread though

[Mel Aina Fea]

I just have to share this. I saw the last few minutes of the ROTK cartoon in 1985 ( yes I was alive waaaaay back then ) just as Gollum grabs the ring and falls in. So later in 1985 I read the Hobbitt, then the LOTR and finally the Sil, even though I knew the ending. I read a one volume edition of LOTR over Xmas vacation. Everyone saw me checking this gigantic book out of my school library and they thought I was nuts. I couldn't explain how I couldn't put the book down.

[Elf Girl]

I first read TH for school what would have been a year ago (I think) this last fall. I'd wanted to read it for way longer than that, but my mother/teacher made me wait until I read it in school. I can tell you, it was probably the most anticipated book in my whole reading life. lol

Anyway, as soon as I read it, I read it again, and then I got out all three of the trilogy books from the library and read them straight through in four days over that Christmas break. I couldn't put them down, and have been hooked ever since! :)

Later, I read the SIL, and I've read some of the other history books. Since I first read the trilogy, I've read it again several times and am currently reading TH for the 5th? or 6th? time. ;) I lost track. I would read the trilogy proper and the SIL more often, but have unfortunately not saved enough money yet to buy them. :(

[Frodo's Pearl]

My dad actually read "The Hobbit" out loud to me and my sibs around the time FotR came out in theatres. (He does voices for the characters and everything!) Then, I started reading the Trilogy, saw FotR and TTT on EE DVD, and I saw RotK in theatres. (I read "The Sil" a little later.)

[BelovedCaptain]

Hey, FP!! :wave: I first read the hobbit during the summer in the sixth grade. I had nothin to read so my dad introduced me to Tolkien's work. He said to start with the hobbit, and so I did.... now look where I am! I'm a Tolkien junkie!!!!! lol:p

[Frodo's Pearl]

And here am I also! :blush: lol

[BelovedCaptain]

Hey, no need to blush about it! Let's be proud of it!! veryhappy

[Frodo's Pearl]

Actually, that wasn't a blush. That smiley just looked so cute and happy. lol
And am very proud indeed! ;)

[BelovedCaptain]

oh, well, you're right, it is cute! lol

[Elvenrider]

Well I"m beginning to read the Hobbit...I always wanted to and then my teacher gave me a list of books to read and I had to choose 2 of the books out of the 10 and undoubtedly the hobbit was one I picked. So now I'm on chapter 4...so we'll see how it goes...it makes me want to go out and have an adventure/treasure hunt in the amazon or something.

[Frodo's Pearl]

Yeah, it put me in this adventurous mood that made me stay for hours in the woods in the back of my house, just exploring and having that wonderful feeling wash over me. I named my woods "Mirkwood". lol

[Elvenrider]

haha wow..when I first got into lOTR around 2 yeears ago I started going into my woods too. ANd when I found out my last name in elvish I named my woods Anwarunya which is my last name in elvish: Sharp
I also named the central tree in the woods and close to being the biggest tree Anwarunya as well.

[Rohirrim Warrior]

I finished "Buddha and the poisoned chocolates" (english traduction) and I started The Hobbit inmediatly yesterday in my school. I'm on Chapter I now hehe.

[General Oreius]

I began reading it at the beginning of last school year, and by Christmas I had read the entire trilogy.

[Aranelwen]

I read it last year and finished it in a week. I definitly want to reread it.

[Frodo's Pearl]

That's a good idea; I'd love to reread it sometime soon too. Wish I had the time to!

[Wyvern]

I first read "The Hobbit" about three years ago (or maybe it was 2?) Anyway, that was the book that first got me hooked into Tolkien and to date it's the only one of his books that I've fully read from cover to cover. It was so awesome! Really exciting! I couldn't believe how good it was.

[Yiara]

I first read "The Hobbit" in German ("Der kleine Hobbit") three years ago. It was a pity that our library hasn't got any Tolkien books in English:-/
But last year, my mother gave me The Hobbit in English. I think I read through it in only one week with my dictionary besides me.;)

[Rohirrim Warrior]

I first read "The Hobbit" in German ("Der kleine Hobbit") three years ago. It was a pity that our library hasn't got any Tolkien books in English:-/
But last year, my mother gave me The Hobbit in English. I think I read through it in only one week with my dictionary besides me.;)

Why you prefer the books in English?

[Yiara]

I can't really explain why I prefer English books.
I don't like the German language, don't know why;)The German language sounds so..hard and "gobsmacked"(?)

[Rohirrim Warrior]

Ahhh, I understand...
Is great you can read an entire book in other language hehe. :grin:

[Yiara]

Great you understood me:grin:

[Elvenrider]

I have just a couple chapters left and let me tell you I am astounded how good its turned out to be. I love it.
I find such a hard time to put it down and in skool when I have free time I wish I had brung it so I can read it.
I think it's made my favorite race become the Dwarves. They seem like such a joyful, happy, and laughable company to be around.
Granted, I haven't read TTT or ROTK or the Sil but..yeah I love dwarves now...but where are their women?? haha

[Elvenrider]

Finished! I loved it sooooo much haha

[Lady Galadriel]

Oh, I love The Hobbit. I read it twice and I laughed so much. I just love Tolkien's sense of humor too. It's a wonderful read.

[Amithrellas]

Good to see you around, LG! :cuddles:

"The Hobbit" really is a fun romp :grin: I read it as a teenager -- many, many, many moons ago ;)
My latest Tolkein acquisition is a reading of The Hobbit by Nicol Williamson. Love his voice characterizations!

The German language sounds so..hard and "gobsmacked"(?) Um... maybe not "gobsmacked"? (that means totally surprised -- gob 'mouth' + smacked 'clapping hand over in surprise')
One of my favorite British slangs :thumbs:

[Frodo's Pearl]

My dad does voices for all the characters when he reads "The Hobbit" out loud to us. :D

[Arwen~Undómiel]

I just finished reading it!
Though I already knew what it was about, because my mom read it to me when I was in kindergarden, I couldn't remember a lot...But now I'm ready for the movie!lol
I really enjoyed reading it! tolkien has such a great sense of humor! It's a really great book!!