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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cthulhu's Librarian" data-source="post: 1877194" data-attributes="member: 11064">The first fantasy book I read was The Hobbit, when I was in second grade, so I was 7. That was the year the animated LotR movie came out, and my uncle took me and my cousin to see it, and we both got hooked on fantasy. The next year, I started the Lord of the Rings (age 8), but didn't finish it until I was 9. Funny story about that, I was reading the Fellowship of the Ring in school, and my teacher took the book away from me, telling me that I was too young to be reading a book that big. She told me I could have it back at the end of the year. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" />  The next day, my mother (who is a teacher herself) came into school with me in the morning and told the teacher that she had some nerve taking a book away from a student who was reading, expecially since I was obviously reading above grade level. The teacher gave the book to her, and Mom handed it right back to me and told me if the teacher gave me a hard time again, she was going to set up a meeting with the principal to discuss the teacher's qualifications. Definitly the worst teacher I ever had. After LotR, the next fantasy books I read were the Chronicles of Narnia, then A Wrinkle in Time, then Elfstones of Shanara. After that, I have no idea, I read anything I could get my hands on.</blockquote>

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