I first read 'The Hobbit', 45 years ago, at age of 9.  From then until now.  I have to say my life has been much influenced by the works of it's author, J.R.R. Tolkien.  Including, first starting to play RPGs in 1976.

I remember in early 1998, not long after first getting online.  Of hearing the first rumours about the planned filming of LOTR.  I remember savoring each new bit of information like a drug addict, jonezing for his next fix.  An discovering the 'theonering.net', the LOTR Movie Nirvana.  Then watching TFOR for the first time at the midnight showing.  Such tears and laughter of joy were involved with that.  They did it right!  They didn't screw it up!

So when I go to see the midnight showing early on the 17th of this month.  It will indeed be the end of age, of sorts for me!  For over 2/3rd of my life, most people I knew didn't know anything about the works of Tolkien.  Nor wanted to.  Now it's main stream.
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