The most important thing is that your kids enjoy this amazing story, and feel like they have something special you can share with them. In the end, it doesn’t really matter how you do it. It will certainly heighten the tension, while frustrating them to no end! But you’re the parent (and you loved these first), so it’s your prerogative! This has been a long time coming, so make a day of it! Heck, make a weekend of it! Or if you really want to go old school, do it like we did back in the day and make them wait a year between each movie. With the extended editions, you’re looking at a total of eleven and a half hours of glorious bonding time. So it’s safe to say that Lord of the Rings has had an extremely big impact on my own life, and I definitely want my son to have the same experience.Īfter (and I would suggest only after!) your child has read the entire Lord of the Rings on their own, it’s time to hunker down and have a movie marathon. Perhaps one day you will even be able to read my own novel, a comedic fantasy heavily influenced by (and a loving ode to) Tolkien and his world. Naturally, like any parent-to-be, my mind of late has been preoccupied with the extremely important business of how to best set him up for success in life, which primarily means figuring out how soon the kid can be introduced to Middle-earth.įor me, The Hobbit (which I read for the first time in 5th grade) was a gateway drug to a life-long love of fantasy. You can follow him online at or on Twitter: All posts by Matt GrantĪfter an incredibly long wait, which is not worth getting into for the purposes of this post, my wife and I are expecting our first child by the end of the year! It’s very possible that by the time you read this, he will already be snuggling in our overtaxed, sleep-deprived arms. Matt's work has appeared in Longreads, The Brooklyn Rail, Tor.com, Huffpost, and more. In addition to BookRiot, he is a staff writer at LitHub, where he writes about book news. Matt Grant is a Brooklyn-based writer, reader, and pop culture enthusiast.
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