Oh I forgot...I enjoy writing poetry. I'm a very stereotypical writer, it's all very emo and heard-it-all-before. I have also just started playing guitar, although I'm not catching on very fast...
I have read the trilogy. And I've read the hobbit.
Films usually ruin the books for me, smashing the images I'd built in my head for the descriptions. But Tolkein describes so well that the film shows exactly what I saw in my head. Although, his descriptions do tend to drag on...