How did you became a Lotr fan?

[missrivendel]

I would like to hear how you became into the ban of the ring
(in dutch the books are called 'in de ban van de ring' so that means not lord of the rings but into the ban of the ring, funny, isn't it? or not )
and did you first read the books or have you first seen the movies?

I was 14 and it was in the christmas holiday
we were going to visit my grandparents, we we're going by car
I always use to read in the car, but I didn't have anything to read
my dad came up with lord of the rings, I thought 'another crazy book form my dad'
but it was so exciting that I read the three books in two weeks and then al the other Tolkien books my father had
a few months later did we watch the films together, I still now I was disappointed because Glorfindel didn't appear

[Mírwen Lindorië]

I KNOW!! GLORFINDEL WAS THE AWESOMEST ELF IN THE WHOLE BOOK!!!!!!!!

Besides Elrond, of course.

It's a reoccuring joke that Glorfindel is never in any sort of film adaption of the Ban of the Ring (lol!) not even the cartoon movie! I thought he was for a moment, because when they are about to go to Rivendell and need to pass the Fords of Bruinen you see this elf with golden hair come by with the white horse, and the hobbits are all excited to see an elf (and I was excited because I thought it was Glorfindel) but then, Aragorn yells out "Legolas!!!!!!!!!!"

........First Arwen steals the show. Now Legolas. Poor Glorfindel, will he EVER get to be in a movie?

They had better put him in the Hobbit movies!! Isn't he on the white council?

Anyway...this is how I became a LOTR fan:

Growing up, I don't remember a time when I didn't know that there was a book called 'The Lord of the Rings'. My mom started reading "The Hobbit" aloud to my brothers and I for school (we are all homeschooled). But she got bored of it because she couldn't remember all the dwarfs' names, so I read most of it by myself. It isn't as epic or adventurous as LOTR, but it is still very cool, and it's characters (Bilbo and Elrond and Gollum, mostly) holds a special place in my heart.

I remember when the FOTR movie came out, I was too young to see it, and it was violent. But my mom wanted me to read it because I had already read The Hobbit. It was like the next level up in reading difficulty, and it was the next chronologically. I read the book FOTR, and then TTT. After I read them I saw the movies. Then I read the book ROTK, and saw the movie when it came out. ;D At the midnight showing. I remember everyone cheering when Sam saved Frodo from Shelob! It was really fun!

[missrivendel]

:Psadly I was too young when the movies came out, but my first lotr remembering is that I saw a poster of the movie when I passed the free record shop
my mum took my dad to rotk as a surprise, but she didn't like it herself someone there asked who had seen the first and second movie, my parents where the only who hadn't seen it

I have seen a part of the cartoon movie, but I thought that it was Glorfindel, I think I've forgotten it was Legolas and found it nicer to put Glorfindel in his place

interesting that you are homeschooled, here it doesn't appear, but my nieces in Canada are also homeschooled for a time
so the hobbit was a part of your school work?
I've read the Hobbit in English last year, for my English literature list
but it was almost summer holiday and I had already read it a few times in Dutch, so I stopped reading it at the point Bilbo saw Esgaroth

[Mírwen Lindorië]

Wow, you've read it in English AND Dutch? Impressive, haha!

I pretend it was Glorfindel in the cartoon and not Legolas. ;D There are a lot of Homeschoolers in the United States. At least, in the part where I live.

Yeah, The Hobbit was part of my schoolwork. But that only meant that after I read the book I would have to do a book report on it. I've read a lot of books for school, most of them are long, old books. They are really good though. If I don't enjoy a book, my mom usually lets me pick out another one instead. ;D

[missrivendel]

yes but I haven't read the English one fully
I must also read some old books for school this year
but I rather like modern books, I had to read a Dutch book from 1880 and in it is used much old language which is irritating to read for 550 pages long

[Mírwen Lindorië]

Wow, that's a lot of pages! What was it called?

[FRODOFAN]

I remember listening to my Mom and older sister talk about this book long before anyone even knew there were films coming out. They'd suggested I read it before, but I always thought it sounded really strange when they started talking about it. Some ring that everyone was obsessed over... and this weird lady Galadriel and these really odd things called hobbits that had the most bizarre names - Frodo and Bilbo? lol... I was little. All I'd really read at that time were James Herriot's animal stories.

I finally decided to read it when people started talking about the films coming out so my Mom had me start with The Hobbit. I was hooked. Then I watched The Fellowship of the Ring (before I'd read the book) at my grandmother's house when we visited her on a trip and I was double hooked!!! I still am. There has never been any other books like The Lord of the Rings and there haven't been any movies like them either. They're amazing. I want to watch them again.

[missrivendel]

Mar 19, 2009 22:39:48 GMT -5 Mírwen Lindorië said:

Wow, that's a lot of pages! What was it called?

Eline Vere, which was also the name of the main character

so we all three have read LotR because of our family
haha another reason to thank them ;D

[Mírwen Lindorië]

Yes, lol! I never realized it before, but it was because of our families, haha!

James Herriot's animal stories....Frodie, were those the stories with Billy Mink and Ol' Man Possum and Peter Cottontail? I loved those books...

[FRODOFAN]

So true!

No, I think those are Beatrice Potter's. James Herriot's stories are true stories. He was a vet. They're very interesting and good light reading. I have his "Dog Stories," "Cat Stories," and "Animal Stories."

[Mírwen Lindorië]

Beatrix Potter had Peter Rabbit, these stories are random stories about a bunch of animals who live in the woods together and have random adventures...


Ah, I think I know the books you speak of though...I remember something about a horse being sick....but that's all I think.

[Nimrodel]

Well, I guess I fell under the spell of LOTR when I first watched the movies in 2007. Before that, if anyone mentioned LOTR, I'd say, "What? Rubbish!" (I was VERY VERY VERY VERY wrong, I KNOW!) But then my dad bought the DVDs for us, and I just said, "Well, it couldn't hurt to look," and once The Fellowship began, I couldn't peel my eyes off the TV! (But then the electricity came off and on, so afte Bilbo's birthday party, he throws the Ring up, then he catches, with a 'Plop!' right? At that exact 'plop', the electricity was cut off ... lol) And when I finished ROTK, I was actually crying..... it was so beautiful! Aragorn's coronation, Frodo sailing away .... *heart melts*

And so I watched them again and again until I could quote them all. Then I began my search for the books (well, in Myanmar, LOTR was pretty rare, I didn't know where to start). My school library had two copies of "The Hobbit", so I read that, and was completely hooked! (and I've read it again in the holidays) ... Then I got membership to the British Council; and THEY HAD IT!!! I read them, and was completely awed!!

Later my Aunt brought me LOTR, The Hobbit, The Sil, Book of Lost Tales 1, and The Treason of Isengard. Now in Nepal I have The Shaping of Middle Earth, Unfinished Tales, and The War of the Ring. YAY!!

I know it was my dad who bought it for me, but guess what? He now regrets it. I'm TOO into Tolkien, he says, and to get out of fantasy. *Sigh* But I think you can never be TOO into Tolkien ....