User blog comment:Gcheung28/Middle Earth Trivia Quiz/@comment-50.51.13.193-20130105030720

I have read the Lord of the Rings trilogy 25 times over the last 48 years. I have read all Tolkien's other works in the fantasy genre, read The Silmarillion half a dozen times, and The Hobbit thrice. I have also pored over the Atlas of Middle-Earth which was given me by a school-class that I read the trilogy to, aloud. (6 of my 25 readings were aloud to individuals or groups) I've also memorised yards & yards of Tolkien's beautiful poetry, have the extended versions of the trilogy on dvd, which I have watched many times over, including the informational stuff (Oh, & I always read the appendices of all the books.) I was introduced to this, the most amazing gift of literature and fantasy, by a wonderful English family, the father of which knew Tolkien & who had read excerpts from the books on BBC Radio, back in the 1950s. Am I blessed, or what?!