I bought into the whole LoTR shebang now in the wake after christmas, a box set with the whole three books plus the Hobbit. It dawned on me, after reading a bit into the first LoTR-book, that there were about two chapters worth of backstory just included with the first book! Add to that all the appendixes, maps etc. and that is a lot of stuff... and the real story hadn't even begun yet!
I am not quite sure what it is I have given myself into... ;)
To bad that I had seen all those movie trailers and stuff for the movies, I always like to imagine what the characters looked like myself.
