I am dyslexic
I got read to to a stupidly late age as I couldn'y read for shit til I was about 12. The hobbit was read to me when I was much younger than that, also LOTR.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 2 Nov 2011, 22:41, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

i didn't read lotr
until I was 22. True story
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 2 Nov 2011, 22:46, Reply)

I think I first read it myself younger than that

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 2 Nov 2011, 22:47, Reply)

I just started larping and it seemed like
I ought to read it at some point.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 2 Nov 2011, 22:50, Reply)

For shame Caves, for shame.
That's like saying "I was off on this crusade, see, and I thought I should maybe read the bible, look you."
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 2 Nov 2011, 22:52, Reply)

Shockingly
I was mostly into sci fi before that. Still am. Fantasy is so often toss, I mostly didn't bother
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 2 Nov 2011, 22:54, Reply)

tend to agree.
After tolkien, it's mosty derivative.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 2 Nov 2011, 22:56, Reply)

I've never read it.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 2 Nov 2011, 22:56, Reply)

it's OK
the film gets through it quicker and you don't get Tom Bombadil
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 2 Nov 2011, 22:59, Reply)

Or as he is known by most people who have read the book:
Tom fucking Bombadil and his fucking boots of fucking yellow.

The Ja Ja Binks of the fantasy world.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 2 Nov 2011, 23:00, Reply)

Me too.
I tried the Hobbit about seven or eight times when I was at school and just never got into it.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 2 Nov 2011, 23:00, Reply)