David Smith
👤 Speaker
201
total appearances
Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
The Prancing Pony Podcast
409 – Runnin’ Down a Ring
And he still had that same copy when in 1964 or thereabouts, he started to read it to me.
The Prancing Pony Podcast
409 – Runnin’ Down a Ring
So I do not recall if he finished.
The Prancing Pony Podcast
409 – Runnin’ Down a Ring
He was not good at doing stuff with small children.
The Prancing Pony Podcast
409 – Runnin’ Down a Ring
But I did remember it enough so that when a friend of mine in ninth grade said, hey, you know, there's this book going around.
The Prancing Pony Podcast
409 – Runnin’ Down a Ring
It's by this guy named Tolkien.
The Prancing Pony Podcast
409 – Runnin’ Down a Ring
And I said, hey, I remember Tolkien.
The Prancing Pony Podcast
409 – Runnin’ Down a Ring
And then I said, this is not the ring that I remember.
The Prancing Pony Podcast
409 – Runnin’ Down a Ring
So I read it like 10 or 15 times that first year.
The Prancing Pony Podcast
409 – Runnin’ Down a Ring
And then I started reading it to my younger siblings.
The Prancing Pony Podcast
409 – Runnin’ Down a Ring
And when I got married, I started reading it to my children.