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Jul 01, 2016Futurvue rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
After trying, in middle school, to read LOTR following The Hobbit (which I liked a lot), and just not getting into it, I put it back on the shelf. Then in my late 30s/early 40s, when my kids were maybe eight and five, or maybe a little older, I began reading a bit of LOTR to them at bedtime because they'd liked The Hobbit so much. At that pace, I could handle the extended descriptions. It took us from October to May to get through it--coincidentally, the exact timeframe of the story in the trilogy--at 20-30 minutes of reading a day. Tales of adventure and courage! The only thing missing is real romance, but kids don't seem to mind that exclusion. (Hint: as a bedtime story, don't conclude the night's reading at a very scary part; press on to a description of landscape or something less charged.)