Well,now you Write in english...yes,i read with 11 years.I've every biography of Tolkien:Silmarilion,comunidad,fall of Númenor,etc
Me like because i always imagined my land in his books,by forest,montains,rivers,etc.Tolkien inspired Rohan in Slavic and Scandinavian mithology...Those of Gondor,are based in Legion of Roma.A shame that Peter Jackson filmed the hobbit..is more fascinating the fall of the Northern Kingdon..of course,but you would fail your Orlando Bloom ;-p