SINGAPORE - Composer Avik Chari was 10 years old when he picked up a copy of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy series The Lord Of The Rings.
It took him a year to finish reading it, but luckily he did, because some things in his life might not have come to pass otherwise.
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