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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 9714364" data-attributes="member: 52734">I was about 10, in 1980, when I was introduced to D&D.  My first exposure to Tolkien was The Hobbit Rankin Bass version - I can't remember exactly when, but well before I was in 7th grade (I got to be the voice of Smaug for the school play that year <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ).   To this day, I have never completely read the Hobbit, and only barely managed to complete The Fellowship of the Rings.  The movies and TV series (as well as discussions with my friends who have read the books) is where I got my knowledge of the stories.As an aside, when it comes to Conan, my knowledge is primarily from the Marvel comics (#1 to about #83), as well as the Savage Sword of Conan comics - as well as the various movies.   I've only this last year sat down and read a handful of the Howard tales.Oh, and when it comes to Cthulhu and Lovecraft, my knowledge for the longest time only came from Deities and Demigods.  The first Lovecraft story I actually read was only a handful of years ago - At the Mountains of Madness, then followed by a few other stories (Call of Cthulhu, Pickman's Model, The Colour out of Space, The Dunwitch Horror, that I can recall).</blockquote>