Earlier today the eight year old was showing off her pictures she has drawn while I’ve read Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion to a visitor and her younger sister piped up at one point and I was so proud.
6YO: “The orcs used to be elves but they were twisted and turned evil.” They really are listening and remembering. 
Tonight when we came to the mention of Gondolin I asked the kids if they remembered it. It was vaguely familiar but they sadly weren’t sure. So I reminded them that something they knew was made there.
8YO (hesitantly): “Frodo’s sword?”
Me: “Yes. And who else’s?”
8YO: “Gandalf?”
Me: “Yep. Sting and Glamdring.”
The six year old looked at the map at Ossiriand (land of seven rivers) at one point while I was reading and said “I counted the rivers and there are only six.” I then pointed at the River Gelion that all of the other rivers flowed into in the west and reminded her that it was the seventh river.
When I read about the barrow that the people of Haleth raised over her burial the six year old shuddered, “Barrow-wights! I hate the barrow-wights.”
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