Congrats! And thanks for everything - not least for providing a friendly hangout where so many diverse and often opinionated geeks from all over the world get along with, by and large, very little drama or unpleasantness.
If I remember rightly from back when this was first in the news, he was suing because RoP supposedly copied elements from his book. From the blurb, I gather that he writes about the history of the Rings in a prologue or something.
Of course he still stole that from Tolkien's writings, so...
From the blurb, it's even worse that the Iron Tower by Dennis Mckiernan. I mean, at least he understood sentence structure and commas. Even though his not-Gimli was forever "casting his hood over his face" whenever he got bad news.
I caught several episodes of the radio show when they were first broadcast. My mother taped as many as she could, and I listened to those as well. So probably in the 5-6 age range.
Read the books not long after. Prefer the radio show though.
ETA: the radio show was released on audio cassette...
The wife and I have an arcade machine in the living room. It's been upgraded with a modern screen and CPU and has sixty of the old classics. Pacman, Donkey Kong, Dig Dug, Galaxian, Space Invaders, Time Pilot, you name it. Great fun.