I don't read much, I just wait for the books to be made into movies. But I really liked LOTR1, I've watched it 6 times since I got it last Friday. I would try the book, but I'm banned from getting books for the rest of the month, after my mom spent $45 on an Edgar Allan Poe book. People do say that the LOTR books have "hard" or "big" words in it that I would not understand, but I think that if I read E.A.P., I would be able to "handle" reading it.
BTW~Sorry I keep mentioning Edgar Allan Poe..

My favorite books are; Brought to you in Living Color(NBC book, it has all the shows they have ever had on NBC in it), Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe, His Life and Legacy, and all the Chicken Soup books, even the ones for moms and stuff, because I enjoy the stories so much.