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on: April 28, 2010 10:26
11 when I first saw Fotr on tv from then on I was hooked.
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on: May 10, 2010 08:19
I started watching FOTR when I was seven or eight, and since then I have regarded LOTR as the greatest fantasy that was ever written/filmed. The part that I always dove behind the couch for was the part where Bilbo freaks out. :cry:
Strangely enough, I was fine with Moria, the Orcses, and the Nazgul. What a odd child I was.
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on: May 24, 2010 01:48
haha, I would watch the Hobbit Movie on repeat when I was 6,7 or so... and eventually, my parents got sick of it. So my dad went out and got me the book. I was hooked.

After I read that, my dad mentioned that there were more books like that, and I was like "*gasp* really?! can I have them? now?"

and that was that.
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on: May 24, 2014 12:01
I was shown the movies when I was eight and I liked them, and then I kinda went thought my 'cool hipster' phase until I was 13 and then I joined a lot of fandoms and got tumblr. I went to see Desolation of Smaug and I was like 'a new ship for me to ship!' My sister was already reading Fellowship so I stole it from her and that was that.
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on: May 24, 2014 09:54
I think I was 10 or 11 when I read the books, and 12 when I first saw the movies.
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on: June 06, 2014 07:24
I read the Hobbit shortly before the movie came out. So this is how I became obsessed with LOTR:
I didn't want to watch the movies until I was at least 30
I listened to the music on Pandora (a radio app)
I fell in love with the music and wanted to watch the movies.
A family rule prevented me from watching the movies until I read the books
I'm so glad I obeyed
I read the books
I watched the movies
I became addicted
This happened in the course of three months
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on: June 27, 2014 02:33
I read the Hobbit when I was nine, and didn't really like it, but then a year later when I read the Lord of the Rings, I loved it!. So then I read the Sil and HoME and since then I haven't stopped loving Tolkien's work. And of course Peter Jacksons films, which I watched soon after I read LOTR for the third time.
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on: July 19, 2014 07:06
I watched The Hobbit when I was 13. I hated it. Then I watched it twice more and I began to like it. Then I was like, 'What do you mean, there's more?' That's when I watched Lord of the Rings and became the nerd I am today.
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on: July 20, 2014 10:01
I'm going to take a hobbit point of view and complain that the human-centric limitation of this thread is inappropriate on a JRRT site. Hobbits came of age at 33, and as I have pointed out dozens of times (very much including real life), JRRT may have been on to something ... Image

I was 27, and thus a tween, when I first saw Ralph Bakshi's half-cartoon film version (ending at the Battle of Helm's Deep) and then read a German translation of LotR. Image
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on: July 23, 2014 07:57
I was about nine when my dad read The Hobbit to my brother and me. He mentioned at the time something about JRRT writing something called The Lord of the Rings, a sequel, but we would have to wait until we were older before we could read that. I loved The Hobbit at the time, and I could hardly wait until I was "old enough" to read the sequel. When I was 12, he came up to me and said, "Why don't you try Lord of the Rings?" I was so excited! I picked them up at the library the first chance I got, and it was love from the first page. I have been hooked ever since.
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on: September 23, 2014 12:34
I think I was 11 when my big brother read me the first chapter of The Hobbit. My interest was immediately peaked, and I read the rest of the book myself. I didn't like it as much as I was expecting, but I wanted to find out more, so I read LOTR. While I found it a rather boring read, Tolkien kept me until Gollum fell into Mount Doom. I immediately made up my mind that I hated LOTR, The Hobbit, and Tolkien in general.

It wasn't until I was 14 that my brother (who loves Tolkein) talked me into watching the movie of Lotr. Though I was initially creeped out by the fact that all the guys had really long hair, and one or two of them I mistook for girls, by the time the first movie was over (and I had met Boromir and are Pippin) I was in love. I immediately read Lotr and Hobbit over again, and a short time later read Silmarillion.

While I still don't like The Hobbit (book or movie), I now have a decent appreciation for Lotr the book, love Lotr the movie, and Silmarillion is my favourite book short of the Bible.
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on: October 12, 2015 10:21
My father showed me a few scenes now and than, but I saw the films first with around 11 or 12. Than I thought "why not read the books?" And found of course plenty of things that were not in the films. And after that, I found many excuses for looking or reading this again the whole day: I got one movie finally in extended edition (but looked all XD ), my friend didn't know them, I saw the Hobbit and had to look it all in a row and so on... That is why I don't really know when I was totally in love with ME, it started as one movie...
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on: June 12, 2016 01:14
I watched Lord of the Rings for the first time with my mother when I was 12, within a year I had also read the books, the Silmarillion and was completely obsessed.
I remember getting funny looks from adults when I brought the Silmarillion around with me to read.
And reading it in the waiting room of the dentist, and when I was confused about a paragraph with a gazillion names and family trees instead of skipping it I had to pull out a notebook and draw a complicated family tree.
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on: June 12, 2016 01:15
I watched Lord of the Rings for the first time with my mother when I was 12, within a year I had also read the books, the Silmarillion and was completely obsessed.
I remember getting funny looks from adults when I brought the Silmarillion around with me to read.
And reading it in the waiting room of the dentist, and when I was confused about a paragraph with a gazillion names and family trees instead of skipping it I had to pull out a notebook and draw a complicated family tree.
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on: July 01, 2016 09:50
I watched a little of FotR several years ago, but I was directed to look away for most of it, and I was so young even if I had been looking I probably still wouldn't have understood anything. My older siblings used to play LotR, and we had a "hobbit hole" (okay, so it was a bramble bush) and I heard bits and pieces of the story once in awhile. All in all, I was just confused and had a vague impression of some dude named Frodo doing something with a ring. But when I was 11, I finally got to watch the movies. I loved them. When I joined this site, it had been awhile since I'd seen the trilogy, and I am appalled to recall how I said in my introduction post "I'm not all that into LotR". (Foolish child! Take it back, I say! Wait, I'm talking to myself...as usual...) Anyway, I am very happy to say that I have since been reformed, and I am in love with LotR all over again. I finally finished reading the trilogy this year, after many a failed attempt. I really don't know why it took so long for me to read them. But in spite of that, I did love them. I have plans to read The Silmarillion, but am at present a bit distracted by rereading The Hound of the Baskervilles.

And wow, IdhrenTelcontar, that's awesome! That's a fabulous idea. Maybe I'll steal it if I get stuck in the Sil.
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