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How did you discover Lord of the Rings? (self.lordoftherings)

submitted 2 years ago by Boggy to c/lordoftherings

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I feel like everyone has a special memory of how they first learned about Lord of the Rings. For me it was right around when the first movie came out. I watched it non-stop with my sisters friend’s elder sister. Anytime my sister would go over to play I’d be watching. I ultimately got the books but it was a huge undertaking for my age and never actually read it for an embarrassing long time. I did memorize the dwarvish rune alphabet in the appendix of my copy. Drove my teachers nuts writing with it.

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[–] theywilleatthestars 2 points 2 years ago

We had the Rankin Bass Hobbit movie on VHS when I was little

[–] Vench4Life 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We actually had to read The Hobbit in an AP English class (roughly a decade before the movies, not to carbon date my fossilized ass or anything). I remember being so engrossed in the story, that I went to the school library, checked out TLOTR Trinity, and burned through it in about 2 months or less. I have to say though, it's really worth reading The Silmarillian for additional context and deeper lore, if you haven't already. It's a hard read (think bible read, then followed by over a hundred pages of genealogy), but still worth it.

[–] Boggy 2 points 2 years ago

That’s super interesting because my school had it as the non “honors” book assignment. Essentially the one you had to read if they thought you’d have a heard time reading anything.

[–] ConTheLibrarian 1 points 2 years ago

The movies came out and everyone watched them. Sometime after ROTK I purchased my first set of the books. Dunno where they ended up. I now have some old ass hardcover ones.

So weird to think back on theatrical releases being almost universally liked and positively received. God damn social media fucked us up lol

[–] marsokod 1 points 2 years ago

For me it was after reading Dune. I was looking for something similar in terms of world building, and the librarian told me to read LotR.

I read everything failry quickly, putting a few all nighters while listening to Rachmaninoff, so I actually have two soundtracks in my head for this story, Rachmaninoff and the movie one :-)

Shortly after, I read about the movies being in the work and they are just perfect.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

My parents gave me the books shortly before the movies came out, likely because they were coming out. So the books then the movies for me.

[–] TheBlackKnight 1 points 2 years ago

My elementary school librarian recommended The Hobbit to me in grade 7. Over the summer camping on the coast I read LOTR and The Silmarillion. Now I'm a lifer.