Poll: How many people have actually read The Lord of the Rings?
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I read it, the entire trilogy and The Hobbit.
Fucking lengthy, and hard to understand at times. But I have no regrets.
Fucking lengthy, and hard to understand at times. But I have no regrets.
I did read the books and was quite underwhelmed by most of them. The third book ends halfway through, I was really pissed that there was so much more book left over, after everything had ended. But that's one thing I never really liked about Tolken was just how much his books rambled on. I know that's the reason a lot of people liked his books but I found it tedious. The 2nd book in LOTR is the one I liked the most, tho I admit I loved the bit in Moria, and all the bits with the dwarfs, but that's the thing in the last book Gimli did nothing, the support characters didn't get to do anything but stand around and look pretty, and that really kinda bugged me. In the first and second book the characters seemed to matter more, so I liked them a lot better. But for me The Hobbit is my favorite work of Tolkens. The major events felt major because Tolken wrote them well, and you really got a sense of wonder as Bilbo went to all these different places and took in the sights. It benefited a lot from only having one perspective, and leaving out some major things that happened, because Bilbo didn't see them. All the wondrous things in the Hobbit felt wondrous because you were seeing them through the eyes of Bilbo Baggins, rather than the narrated feel that the other 3 books had. And if things did feel narrated, there was a kind of feel that Bilbo was narrating. That gave it a much closer feel. All in All The Hobbit is my favorite book. But I just don't get into Lord of the Rings so much. I'll give you, I liked the first two books, but the third book I just hate.
It's been a while, but I recently started reading The Hobbit again. So I plan on reading LotR.
I do think Tolkien goes overboard with his descriptions, though. Did we really need to witness every step of Frodo and Sam's journey through Mordor, especially since nothing happens that's relevant to the plot? Or the Old Forest.
Oh god, the Old Forest.
Still, those are small pimples on an otherwise beautiful face.
I do think Tolkien goes overboard with his descriptions, though. Did we really need to witness every step of Frodo and Sam's journey through Mordor, especially since nothing happens that's relevant to the plot? Or the Old Forest.
Oh god, the Old Forest.
Still, those are small pimples on an otherwise beautiful face.
Wasn't The Hobbit easier to get than LotR? Well, it is from what I have seen here in Melbourne yet.AndyFromMonday said:
OT: Yes I have, both The Hobbit and the entire LotR trilogy.
I'm a huge D&D nerd and everything but... I just couldn't get into it, honestly. I got about 25% through the Fellowship from the school library and even that was punishment.
I can read Shakespeare or a tabletop reference book cover to cover, but I just couldn't get behind LOTR.
In a similar vein, I can read translations of Book of Five Rings or The Art of War, but when I tried to read Le Morte d'Arthur, it felt like reading the Bible. Begetting everywhere, and people just marching around and losing their horses and getting back on their horses... Dry stuff.
I can read Shakespeare or a tabletop reference book cover to cover, but I just couldn't get behind LOTR.
In a similar vein, I can read translations of Book of Five Rings or The Art of War, but when I tried to read Le Morte d'Arthur, it felt like reading the Bible. Begetting everywhere, and people just marching around and losing their horses and getting back on their horses... Dry stuff.
Read it once, when I was around eleven. Again, when I was seventeen. I don't like the trilogy too much. I do, however, read The Hobbit on an annual basis.
No and I don't have a year on head to read them all that is what the movies are for.
Lazy fucks like me.
Lazy fucks like me.
Multiple times, as well as The Hobbit. They're good books but my god, Tolkien can be dry sometimes.
I've read LotR, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion at least twice, all before the movies came out.
I have read and enjoyed but I will give my slimmed down version of the 2nd book... we marched a fucking lot, and when we weren't marching the other guys were marching... then we marched some gd more.
Oh, I have also sat down w/ all 3 extended versions and watched them straight through. We also attempted to make a drinking game out of the movies and drink when ever the ring was mentioned/my preshious was said/ sam and frodo had a seemingly gay moment/ or something else.... It was brutal
Oh, I have also sat down w/ all 3 extended versions and watched them straight through. We also attempted to make a drinking game out of the movies and drink when ever the ring was mentioned/my preshious was said/ sam and frodo had a seemingly gay moment/ or something else.... It was brutal
Got to page 180ish of the trilogy and gave up, I had enough of the previous 40 odd pages of tolkien describing a forest, everything before said forest was good though, but ive not had the time nor effort to retry it.
I've read the hobbit though, that was a good read.
I've read the hobbit though, that was a good read.