“So it begins…” we do a lot of reading out loud as a family. We finished the hobbit earlier this year and the kids have asked to dude into Lord of the Rings as some of their friends’ families are doing the same. As the reader it’s a definite jump but I’m hoping it will help my speaking cadence and vocabulary improvement as well. I read this fully last 15 years ago and have been chasing around the Simarillion and some of the other side books. Glad to get back to the core for a while.