Ah ok I got into it 'cause my dad read & saw the movies and then my older siblings saw the movies, I'm reading them at the moment. I Haven't read the Simallirion, but I've read the rest of them :)
Read all but the Hobbit and the Simallirion, trying to get all of the history. And yeah, the movies is how I got into it, so of course I've seen em. :p