Poll: How many people have actually read The Lord of the Rings?

[Canadamus Prime]

Yeah I read them way back in High School.

 

[Jamieson 90]

Read the Hobbit and really enjoyed it but I had a lot of trouble with the fellowship of the ring and gave up. I actually have the entire triology sat on my book shelf. I have been meaning to read them at some point but just never got around to it.

 

[Erja_Perttu]

Read it many times. Maybe I'm just a patient reader, because whilst I'll admit they're not the best books in the world (as I believe CS Lewis said 'Not another fucking elf!') but I quite enjoyed it.

 

[eternal-chaplain]

Eh, in the middle of it.

 

[Fursnake]

Where is the poll option for "I did, plus the Hobbit, plus the Silmarillion, plus the Lost Tales, plus the Children of Hurin plus...etc"? hehe

No, I'm not a Tolkien nerd, I just read a lot.

 

[Srdjan]

Three times, also i read Hobbit, Silmariolion, Unfinished Tales, Children of Hurin and Fall of Gondolin.

 

[Fraught]

I have not read the LotR books, though I have read The Hobbit (which was very, very enjoyable) and the Unfinished Tales, or whatever it's called.

 

[mrdude2010]

I have and I urge anyone who likes the films to read the books. I found that understood the characters more after reading the books, not to mention Tom Bombadil!

fuck yea tom bombadil

 

[NeutralDrow]

I've read it a couple of times on my own. My father actually read me the books as a bedtime story when I was a child.

I've only gotten through The Silmarillion once, though. And it took three attempts. Though really, once you get past the early stuff with the elves, up to Feanor, it gets easier.

 

[Risingblade]

I didn't even know it was adapted from books or was a sequel to the Hobbit when I fist watched it

 

[The Wykydtron]

i've read all of them, begrudgingly may i add...

And by "read" i mean i got to the words "the ring was destroyed" noticed there was half a book left and put the book down

Having half the book being an epilogue is not good storytelling

 

[Jake the Snake]

I've read the Hobbit like 4 times, but I've never gotten around to reading LoTR. It's on my list of things to do this summer.

 

[DasUberCow]

Gotcha. Beating the bullshitters at their own game. Cool. I've done that before, too.

Do go on... I'm intrigued.

OT : I've read it through once before. If i remember correctly i was 13. Was heavy going. Might try and read through it again, but i'm loosing myself (intentionally) in the world of sci-fi in the past couple years and besides. Thomas Covenant series beats the shit out of any other fantasy novel. Yeah, i'm looking at you Wheel of Time.

 

[Breaker deGodot]

I did, but didn't like all of it. Tolkien's prose can be quite exhausting.

 

[Parugraph]

I finished "The Hobbit" and read the first book but could not finish it since the such Ye olde english I could not stand it well it was written in the 40ies so I guess that makes sense.

 

[dex-dex]

I have not read them or seen the movies.
soo yeah....

 

[Sandytimeman]

thanks to my father I have read just about everything to do with middle earth. I read the Hobbit, and the Trilogy, I've also read those books published by JRR's son with all his notes and history of middle earth in it.

 

[HentMas]

i took it from a friend, it was this 4 inches book that had maps, illustrations and hard bounded in brown with just the "Tolkien" sign in its spine, it was in English, i loved it... but my friend took it back

so i looked for them in several stores, and found the collection (simarilion, the hobbit, lord of the rings) in Spanish, bought it and read the simarilion and the hobbit, but when i tried to read again the "lord of the rings" i hated the translation... still, loved the other two books.

 

[Fluffis]

Read "LotR" 5,5 times (right in the middle now). "The Hobbit", god knows how many times... "Silmarillion" twice, and "Unfinished Tales" once.

Yeah... I'm a complete nerd.