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Originally Posted by HarryT
You can read LOTR as a straightforward adventure story as a 12-year-old, I agree. But there's a heck of a lot in it that you aren't going to understand, or be interested in, at that age.
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There are certainly things I'm still not interested in.
I'd say LotR almost marked the point where I started reading adult fiction. There wasn't really any teen-oriented fiction then, that I recall, but quite a lot of adult fantasy/SF was clean and relatively wholesome.