1. 20. 2. I can't rightly remember, maybe 11 or 12. We had Tolkien calendars throughout my childhood whenever my mother was able to get hold of one (we lived in Italy, so that mostly meant the years we went to the States in the previous summer). The pictures for LotR were so much more exciting than the ones for the Hobbit, which we'd been read as a bedtime story, but my mother drew the line at reading LotR at us, so I started asking to read it and eventually my mother deemed me old enough. 3. Cappuccino, which I'd drink incessantly if more than one coffee a day didn't disagree with me. Otherwise, Badoit mineral water. 4. Argh, where do I start. I've never been able to stick to one kind of music for more than a couple of months. At the moment I've been listening to an iTunes radio station playing Italian pop music, just enough oldies from the '70s and '80s to keep me happy. In English-speaking popular music I have favourites from the '60s to the '00s; my iPod contains a lot of Doors but also a lot of Nick Cave. If I get free Proms tickets from the Warburg this year I will have my annual classical resurgence, currently biased towards early music but with a changing cast of favourites from every century. I've also been through phases of folk music (US/UK/Irish), north Indian ragas, church bells, birdsong, female Bollywood vocalists, acoustic blues, female jazz singers, 1920s/'30s bands. To name a few. 5. It's changed over the years. In fact I've probably read LotR with at least a dozen favourites at various times (including Shadowfax, of course). Right now, probably Pippin.
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2. I can't rightly remember, maybe 11 or 12. We had Tolkien calendars throughout my childhood whenever my mother was able to get hold of one (we lived in Italy, so that mostly meant the years we went to the States in the previous summer). The pictures for LotR were so much more exciting than the ones for the Hobbit, which we'd been read as a bedtime story, but my mother drew the line at reading LotR at us, so I started asking to read it and eventually my mother deemed me old enough.
3. Cappuccino, which I'd drink incessantly if more than one coffee a day didn't disagree with me. Otherwise, Badoit mineral water.
4. Argh, where do I start. I've never been able to stick to one kind of music for more than a couple of months. At the moment I've been listening to an iTunes radio station playing Italian pop music, just enough oldies from the '70s and '80s to keep me happy. In English-speaking popular music I have favourites from the '60s to the '00s; my iPod contains a lot of Doors but also a lot of Nick Cave. If I get free Proms tickets from the Warburg this year I will have my annual classical resurgence, currently biased towards early music but with a changing cast of favourites from every century. I've also been through phases of folk music (US/UK/Irish), north Indian ragas, church bells, birdsong, female Bollywood vocalists, acoustic blues, female jazz singers, 1920s/'30s bands. To name a few.
5. It's changed over the years. In fact I've probably read LotR with at least a dozen favourites at various times (including Shadowfax, of course). Right now, probably Pippin.