I've been promising my son that I'd read this so we can bond over it. We read The Hobbit together when he was about twelve, and I thought it was a pretty good story, and he began a lifelong passion for all things Tolkien. He's 18, now, and still waiting impatiently for me to follow through on my promise, so here we are.

I read the Foreword, the Prologue, and Chapter 1. So far, so meta.