The sound of bongo drums and the smell of cedar always reminds me of coverless copies of Silver Age reprint comics like early issues of Marvel Superheroes or Fantasy Masterpieces and of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The reason is that when I was a youngster I would go into my big brothers' room and I read their comics and their paperback editions of Tolkien's trilogy, stopping occasionally to play my bongo drums made of cedar wood.