I was in third grade, and already horse-crazy, when I found this book in the school library. It was the first book that completely came alive to me and took me into its own world - the Australian mountains. Some time in the next year, after my mother had read The Hobbit aloud to us, I found a copy of The Return of the King at the public library. I didn't realize it was the third volume in a trilogy, but just dove right in. Of course, then I had to read the first two, and I read The Lord of the Rings over and over again, easily twenty times, till I was in about eighth or ninth grade and had whole passages memorized. I read lots other things, too, in between re-readings of The Lord of the Rings. The Lord of the Rings, The Snow Filly, and its companion book The Silver Brumby were the first three books (or five books, if you count the trilogy volumes separately) I bought with my own money. The hard-bound Lord of the Rings cost $9.00 for all three volumes!

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yes, it's true, I was reading this classic as a little girl and falling in love with the Jabberwock and the Tweedle twins while my friends were still playing with dolls. My rag-tag copy was one of those old classic Reader's Digest ones from the 50s, complete with illustrations. My complete works of Lewis Carroll is nice, but doesn't match the nostalgia of that frayed, red book from my childhood.

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