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Started reading my five-year-old The Hobbit this week, and man he loves it.
I love it too..having an excuse to read it again :D

We're doing a chapter a night-just finished Overhill and Underhill yesterday.

So far his favorite chapter is Roast Mutten--mostly because the Trolls kept calling eachother "Bobby". But when Gandaf started tricking them into arguing, he got all excited, and figured it out for himself--"I think it's the wizard doing all that!!"

Anyone else read Tolkin to their kids?
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Not yet, but the hobbit was read to me exactly like that, (By the time I was 10, I'd read LoTR myself, and struggled valiantly through the Silmarillion), and you can bet I'll be reading it to my own kids that way when I get around to having some.

Good stuff man. Instill a love of reading in them now, and they'll love books for life.

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Instill a love of reading in them now, and they'll love books for life.
Absolutley. Well Said.
But if you're all about the destination, then take a fucking flight.
We're going nowhere slowly, but we're seeing all the sights.
And we're definitely going to hell, but we'll have all the best stories to tell.


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