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LOTR heavily influenced my love for fantasy as a teen (as well as all those heroism/self-sacrifice + all those major themes). Oddly enough, however, I am less likely to pick up any new fantasy books *now* - but I still love the themes I fell in love with in LOTR. (I think part of it is the new stuff doesn't have the things I love LOTR for - and it tends to have things that turn me off very strongly. So my fantasy reading is mostly nostalgia reading now, the books I loved as a teen. Alma Alexander's Worldweavers series is the one main exception.)

I read tons of YA books while I technically should've been reading children's books (what is age? lol), and I still love YA as a result. On the whole, I'm far more likely to pick up a YA book than an adult one, as far as fiction goes (though I read adult nonfiction all the time).

The film Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain (1995) either started or paralleled my love for female friendships which verge on romantic friendships, and it's still one of my favorite (tiny/nonexistent) fandoms. Watched it as a 12 or 13-year-old and I fell in love with it immediately. I'm pretty sure that is one of the most formative canons I ever saw.

And as far as TV shows go, the earliest ones I can remember watching were a few clips of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, and a lot clearer memories of Walker, Texas Ranger. Perhaps the latter is what sparked my love of law enforcement procedurals with some emotional content thrown in, though I think I really fell in love with that from Rizzoli & Isles (and I still don't remember how I discovered R&I! perhaps it was a friend of mine knowing my love for close female friendships - I know I found it right after S1 had finished airing, so it was early on).