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Read it once - got very confused with all the place/names. Best part was when he got to hobbit/LOTRs part. Really liked to get some background on what happened before those events.
 
You're not really going to read it, you're going to start to read it, then quit after chapter one. I'm firmly convinced that Chris Tolkien only did 3 chapters, the first two and the last one. The rest of the book is just random letters banged out on a keyboard by a trained monkey. He knew that nobody would read the middle part after suffering through the first two chapters. He tacked on the final chapter for the people who like to skip to the end.
 
I read it and don't understand why people found it hard to read. Boring, maybe, but not a difficult read.

Men of Numenor = cool. Also it was nice to read about the origins of Elrond and Galadriel. Nothing really too notable about the book otherwise.
Originally posted by: hypersonic5
I'm trying to read Dune. God, so many boring pages.
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Now THAT is heresy! There was not a single boring page in the first Dune novel.
 
Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
You're not really going to read it, you're going to start to read it, then quit after chapter one. I'm firmly convinced that Chris Tolkien only did 3 chapters, the first two and the last one. The rest of the book is just random letters banged out on a keyboard by a trained monkey. He knew that nobody would read the middle part after suffering through the first two chapters. He tacked on the final chapter for the people who like to skip to the end.
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you suck at reading the thread
 
Hehe, I guess I'm a total Tolkien fiend, because I did a book report on it in sixth grade. I didn't find it difficult then, so I guess you all suck. 😀
 
after a while all the elves get overrun and one guy sails to valinor and begs forgiveness so the might of valinor marches to angband and kick's melkor's butt. then they toss him out into the void. the morgoth's second in command, gorthaur, becomes the primary bad guy, gets numenor destoryed, and starts distributing rings to form the basis of government. and we all know what happens after that.
 
Originally posted by: darkswordsman17
Ok the title says going to read the Hobbit, but several people here are talking about the Silmarillion. Big difference.
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i changed the title

i just finished the silmarillion, now i'm reading the bobbit
 
Originally posted by: ElFenix
the ainur are created by illuvatar. then the ainur create the world. some of the ainur, including the most powerful, go to live in the world. the two kinds are the valar, the most powerful, and the maiar, who are lesser. The most powerful of the valar is melkor/morgoth, who tries to thwart the other valar in creating the world, bending it to his own evil purposes. After a while the other valar get pissed off, sack melkor's fortress, and imprison him for a time.

the elves enter the world. they are created by illuvatar, not the valar. the valar eventually convince the elves to come to the valar's land, valinor. most of the elves never go to valinor. at that time all the light in the world was emitted by two trees. the elves become ever more masterful. eventually, the most powerful elf, feanor, is born, and he crafts 3 jewels, the silmarils, which capture the light of the trees. then melkor is released. he plays nice, but poisons the hearts of some of the elves against the valar, including feanor. melkor then destroys the trees. at that point they could be revived with the light from the silmarils, but melkor steals those and goes back to middle earth. feanor swears an oath, as do his sons, that he will not rest as long as someone else, including valar, maiar, and other elves, have the silmarils.

so they leave. but there is a giant sea between valinor and middle earth, and the sea elves won't give them ships. so feanor attacks the elves, the first instance of elf on elf violence. for this they are cursed, and all that they do will be for their own ruin. eventually they make it back to middle earth. feanor and sons had left other elves that were going with them in valinor, then burned the ships. so the other elves had to brave ice floes in the north. eventually they fight a battle with morgoth's forces, all the way to the gates of angband, where feanor is killed.

<going to a review session, back for more synopsis later>
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Great synopsis of like the first chapter of the Silmarillion.

Now, how about "The Hobbit".
 
Originally posted by: CFster
Originally posted by: ElFenix
the ainur are created by illuvatar. then the ainur create the world. some of the ainur, including the most powerful, go to live in the world. the two kinds are the valar, the most powerful, and the maiar, who are lesser. The most powerful of the valar is melkor/morgoth, who tries to thwart the other valar in creating the world, bending it to his own evil purposes. After a while the other valar get pissed off, sack melkor's fortress, and imprison him for a time.

the elves enter the world. they are created by illuvatar, not the valar. the valar eventually convince the elves to come to the valar's land, valinor. most of the elves never go to valinor. at that time all the light in the world was emitted by two trees. the elves become ever more masterful. eventually, the most powerful elf, feanor, is born, and he crafts 3 jewels, the silmarils, which capture the light of the trees. then melkor is released. he plays nice, but poisons the hearts of some of the elves against the valar, including feanor. melkor then destroys the trees. at that point they could be revived with the light from the silmarils, but melkor steals those and goes back to middle earth. feanor swears an oath, as do his sons, that he will not rest as long as someone else, including valar, maiar, and other elves, have the silmarils.

so they leave. but there is a giant sea between valinor and middle earth, and the sea elves won't give them ships. so feanor attacks the elves, the first instance of elf on elf violence. for this they are cursed, and all that they do will be for their own ruin. eventually they make it back to middle earth. feanor and sons had left other elves that were going with them in valinor, then burned the ships. so the other elves had to brave ice floes in the north. eventually they fight a battle with morgoth's forces, all the way to the gates of angband, where feanor is killed.

<going to a review session, back for more synopsis later>
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Great synopsis of like the first chapter of the Silmarillion.

Now, how about "The Hobbit".
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Now, how about you check out the 4th and then the 3rd post above yours and read it. Then check out the times.

Good morning BTW. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: ElFenix
hobbit done!

what to read next?
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Originally posted by: ElFenix
just finished the hobbit, next up:
chronicles of narnia
an army at dawn (the way in north africa 1942-1943)
angels &amp; demons
Tolkien and the great war
new spring (robert jordan WoT)

might thrown in the book of lost tales
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One of those perhaps? 😛
 
Originally posted by: aves2k
Originally posted by: ElFenix
hobbit done!

what to read next?
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Originally posted by: ElFenix
just finished the hobbit, next up:
chronicles of narnia
an army at dawn (the way in north africa 1942-1943)
angels &amp; demons
Tolkien and the great war
new spring (robert jordan WoT)

might thrown in the book of lost tales
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One of those perhaps? 😛
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Hehehehe! 😀

If I had to choose one from that list, I'd choose "The Chronicles of Narnia". I have only read one of the books, but I plan on reading them all one day. 🙂


: ) Amanda
 
I'm one of the few people that haven't read DaVinci code... but I did read Angels &amp; Demons. Found it to be a very easy, fun and informative read. Just started DaVinci code... and it feels like I'm just continuing on with Angels &amp; Demons...
 
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