Fandom Snowflake Challenge -- Day 2

[la_samtyr]

Day 2

In your own space, share a book/song/movie/tv show/fanwork/etc that changed your life. Something that impacted on your consciousness in a way that left its mark on your soul.



I was given this book when I was about 10 or 11 by an older cousin whom I loved and respected. I was told to "read this first to understand the world (of Tolkien), then read the Lord of the Rings" since the Silmarillion would not be published for more than a decade.

So I read that first, then the others -- and never really looked back.

Comments

[ysilme]

:D

[kiki_eng]

Oh, that is a beautiful edition. Thanks for sharing that story. :)

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[turlough]

I also read the Hobbit when I was about 10 and then went on to the Lord of the Rings (and the Silmarillion when it was published 8 years later) and just like you I never looked back!

[angrboda]

I was told much the same thing by my friend when we were only a few years older. She made me read The Hobbit and I liked it well enough, and then she made me take on LotR. I liked the first one but had to eventually give up halfway through the second. I'm not sure why. I think at that point I just started finding it rather a dry read. I tried again several times later on, but always seemed to get stuck at the same place. It wasn't until the films came out that I tried again and wondered why I'd ever got stuck. My conclusion is perhaps I wasn't really ready for them. Perhaps a little too young in some way. My friend had already read them more than once when she recced them to me, and I always wondered how. :) Last time I read them, it was in the form of audiobooks and it was a really excellent narrator. It was like a whole new experience. :)