re: The Hobbit and LOTR Question

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I can remember the moment as a kid when I came across The Hobbit in the local library for the first time. I had no idea what it was. I'd never heard of it. But I can vividly remember the feeling of picking it up and seeing the cover art for the first time. It was the version with the picture of the Lonely Mountain rising up out of the forest. I didn't know anything about it, but I somehow knew that whatever it was, it had been written for me. Thank you, J.R.R. Tolkien.

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I can remember reading it in the fall of my 8th grade year of brother martin almost exactly 23 years ago from today. It was my best friends copy that had been handed down to him from his mom. Was hooked by "hole in the ground"