captainhaggis

well there's not a lot good you can say about my dad, but one thing is he did read to us- my younger sister and I- when we were kids. He read us the narnia stories, the Oz books, all of Heinlein's boyscout type era, and The hobbit. He also started out on the Fellowship, but I don't think we ever got much past rivendell. I went on to become a voracious reader of sci-fi and fantasy, though my sister never got into much outside of C.S.Lewis as an adult.

I went to my first science fiction convention with my dad when I was twelve or so. I think it was the worldcon in boston. It was awesome. It was very important to me as a kid to see positive freaky/geeky role models.

I read LOTR the first time through on my own at about that time. I didn't try the silmarillion until my twenties when I had stronger linguistic tendancies.

My apreciation of Tolkein has only grown the more interested in language and linguistics I've become.



Sound like you're getting a cold.
you know what Linus Pauling would say....
vitimin C
(hope I've remembered the right chemist's name...)

nice plan *shrugs*