How many times have you read LOTR?

I must read The Hobbit again... I only read it once, and that was when I was only nine...

First of all the LOrd of the Rings is not a trilogy it is a novel that Tolkien wanted to divide into six books which the publishers divided into three
Well I have read it eleven times in 95 and my pages are falling out, I know try to read it twice a year and I am always finding information I have missed the time before

My original copy which I read and re-read up until I graduated high school, has the inscription "Read 12 times" written on the inside the front cover (I guess I was pretty proud of the fact ). Since then, I have read the books an average of once a year. That adds up to, ummm, 28 times. Geesh, I gotta be nuts!

I've lost count I'm re-reading it at the moment though, I started yesterday and am up to 'Many Meetings'. I've read LOTR so many times I've partially memoriesed it

I love Lord of the Rings...

Twenty at least, including all the appendices (although I am a Dwarf, no Hobbit could enjoy the family trees more than I!) I ran two paperback editions into the ground and now have a Harper-Collins hardback with Alan Lee's fascinating though rather pallid illustrations — and that has just finished its sixth round.

I've read it one time. Beginning with the Hobbit, and ending with the Silmarillion. That was in the end of 1998 and the beginning of 1999. After that I started to buy the whole series of Raymond E. Feist. I'm almost finished with that.

For my birthday, june 9, I get the LOTR omnibus, or something like that. Then I go read it for the 2nd time, and when the movie is almostly coming out in Holland, I will read it for the 3d time...

i've read LotR cover-to-cover twice, FotR on its own once more, & Hobbit countless times. but certain favorite chapters get read individually (the moria & lorien scenes particularly) much more often. and if i can ever find my copy, i'll start Sil.

Hobbit: Comic book version: MANY times when I was little, still read it to bring back old memories now sometimes
real book version: 3
LotR: 1, reading it again now
Sil: 1
Unfinished Tales: In the proccess

update:
i'm now rereading LotR, this is #3 for me. i started yesterday but i'm only up to tom bombadil - i've been up literally all night (mostly writing way-too-long posts to this board) & do ocasionally need sleep.

i'm going to egypt in 3 1/2 weeks, not that i'm counting, & think Sil would be great material for those 10-hour plane rides.

right now my mom & i are rereading LotR at the same time, & i'm trying to get my 16-year-old sister to start. this is pretty good for a 4-member family!

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I read it once every season, and I tally each chapter to keep my place (I don't like bookmarks). But my dad had the books before me, so I get the tallys mixed up. So far, we have read the LOTR 37 times. I've had it for 4 years, so I probably read it 16 times.

37-16= My dad read it 21 times.

WWWWAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY too much much time on his hands

I must be a real strange one...

I lost count at 30 readings, and have read it a couple more times since (that includes the Hobbit, LOTR, and SIL). Am about to start again.

I have found new "stuff" every time, and have enjoyed it every time. <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/embarassed.gif ALT=""> )

I haven't kept track, but I would estimate 10-12 times. The first time was in 1978. Plus, as others have noted, significant browsing through the appendixes.

Kittle shouldn't feel bad at all; like PTimmins, I've read LotR more than thirty times. Only read Silma once though, and haven't read LotR in about ten years.

I've read it 11 times and a 12th right now. I'd had the books for a year before I even began, though. I've read The Hobbit twice, and half of The Silmarillion. It normally takes me 1-2 weeks to read all three from beggining to end.
The first time I hated it. I got 200 pages into Fellowship and gave up. I came back later and forced myself to read the rest of them. It took 3 months. It gets better each time I read it.

More times than I'd like to admit and yet not as many as I'd have liked to!

I like more than half of it half as much as I should like; and less than half of it half as well as it deserves. Exactly right.

now i have read it four times, but i still feel ashamed on this thread

My father read the Hobbit to me when I was 7, and after that I devoured any Tolkien material I could find. (I`ve even got a book by Ruth Noel, that`s how keen I was).
I re-read LOTR once every year until I was about 12, and somewhat less frequently from that age on. The last time was 3 years ago, when I read the whole book to my daughter, who was six at the time. So altogether, I would say I`ve read the book about 15 or 16 times.

I`ve read the Silmarillion numerous times as I prefer it to LOTR. I guess I am just a romantic fool. My interest in Tolkien has been rekindled since joining this forum and the Barrowdowns, so I have read the Sil. again and have just started LOTR. Thanks for bringing me back to the faith.

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I have read LoTR 9 times in the right order and are finished with TFR for the 10th time now. But I usally don't read the books in the rigt order anymore, I just read them as I look for somthing I am trying to find out more about.