Talk about anything Tolkien related.
Don't be afraid to reply to very old posts. Tolkien knowledge has no expiration date.
Please keep things relaxed. We're all hobbits here. If you are a Sackville Baggins, No Admittance Except on Party Business.
I just barely remember listening to this record as a young child on one of those children's briefcase style record players. I still have my original one, although at some point I actually bought another off eBay because the original one has a scratch.
Cool ass record!!
I got the hobbit in middle school maybe. Back then I was my mothers sweet little boy. It was a concerted effort to read it together at night. I think it was from my school's library iirc. Hard back, green with black lettering maybe.
I can vividly remember the feeling of my room and my mothers voice.
What really got me going was the movies though probably. I watched it with a good friend of mine, around the time his father had passed. He did not have an easy go of things after that and we drifted apart.
My s.o. and I bonded initially over our love of tolkein, as well as sharing the same favorite author of more non fantasy writing. We occasionally nerd out together on it to this day.
I went with friends on a birthday party to see the second PJ movie in cinema. Then I watched the first movie on video and went to the cinema to watch the second movie again. Next school holidays I read all the books and waited impatiently for the third movie.