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Just finished the Hobbit for the first time ;)

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pg22

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So I saw LOTR a few weeks back, and I thought it was mediocre at best (*hears cries of 'blasphemy!!' 😉 ). I've never read anything by Tolkien and never really cared too. So I was at Borders the other day and bought a whole bunch of books. After a good 5 minutes of thinking, I decided to buy this. I finished the Hobbit in just three days...I loved it!!! Even though I saw the Fellowship of the Ring before I'll have the chance to read it, I'm sure I'll love the book (even though I thought the movie was boring). Damn I thought all hell was going to break loose in that last battle in the Hobbit 😉

 
its a great book, just wait you get to the LOTR🙂

I am reading the lost tales, The History of Middle Earth😀

this is great reading, but is probably a little much unless you are pyschotic like kami, or me
 
The Hobbit in three days?

lol over winter break I read the entire LOTR trilogy in three days :Q

Is the history of middle earth good? I saw different Middle Earth books at waldenbooks by like christopher tolkien or somebody. Never heard of them so didn't pick them up
 
i finished it about a week ago too. now i'm on FOTR, up to the Tom Bombadil part. So far I like the Hobbit better... but I'm sure LOTR will get better soon.
 
uh huh? you thougt the movie was boring? They cut a huge amount out of the movie as to keep the story moving..... I cant imagine finding it boring, it was almost too fast paced for me.. but hey I like a story


the rest of the lord of the rings is not like the hobbit.. the hobbit was written as a stroy really for his kids (but I agree it is awsome, I love it)

LOTR is of a more serious tone


I too have read the history of middle earth... most of them anyways, it is hard to find some of them
 
I read the Hobbit long ago, and I didn't read LOTR books. I did see the movie and I LOVED!!! it. I got the LOTR books and I'm almost done reading the first one. I thought the movie was much better than the book is. I know the book's got more depth, but the action just doesn't seem as cool. The movie put a "hurry-up" attitude that the books don't have. I'll finish the other two books, then go back and reread the Hobbit. I can't wait for the movies to come out, but I'm going to have to wait a year 🙁

Legolas owns all!

-Pakaderm
 
for those that didn't have a problem with the movie being as long as it was, wait until the director's cut comes out on dvd; rumor has it that it will be nearly 5 hours. For myself, that's an excellent way to spend an evening with some other fanatics 😀
 
Just think He wrote them in1920's-1930's. He is the first to invent a whole new universe!( maybe Edgar Rice Burroughs, but he did not invent Language, mythology) Read a biography on him, his job while writing these books was writing the dictionary researching word origins. His elfin language is based a lot on Finnish origins of words and early Nordic mythology. The man was a genius!
 
As far as the movie being better than the book, that's a rather surprising statement.
The book has so much more to offer. But "To Each His Own."

Chinaman.... you read the whole trilogy in three days!:Q Evelyn Wood rears her ugly head.🙂
 
hobbit was grast so was LOTR. movie was awsome when it was done i wanted toi take a 10 min break and watch the other 2!!!! and the rumer i heard is that the Directers DVD will have like 40 min of extra film footage they cut out. and that only makes it like 4 hours total but if theres really 5 that will be great also
 


<< Is the history of middle earth good? I saw different Middle Earth books at waldenbooks by like christopher tolkien or somebody. Never heard of them so didn't pick them up >>

Christopher is John's son. The History of Middle Earth books are the Silmarillion, the Hobbit and the Lord Of The Rigns trilogy with all his fathers notes put in to expand the story further. It can be a very tedious read but is shows how far along the creation of Middle Earth was and yet how far it still had to go.
 
Wanna hear something really funny...

...we bought a house in a new-ish (~7 years old, but still expanding slowly) development recently, but the jack-a&& developers mis-spelled the name of our road (road-sign, deed, docs, etc), so I live on HOBBITT lane which is in the Shire plan adjacent to Aragon place.

Do you have any idea how many times I'm going to have to answer yes to "Is that hobbit with two t's"? over the remainder of my life?!?
 
now i thought the LOTR books sucked, even though i loved Hobbit. I never feel the urgency of disposing of the invisibility ring. After all it doesn't seem like the ring is that big of a deal to be honest. Only in the movie you really felt that
 
I finished TheHobbit a few months ago and started working on Fellowship of the Ring, got about a third of the way into it, but haven't finished it. I found the movie much more entertaining. But congrats on finishing it in three days... that's impressive to me.

nik
 


<< now i thought the LOTR books sucked, even though i loved Hobbit. I never feel the urgency of disposing of the invisibility ring. After all it doesn't seem like the ring is that big of a deal to be honest. Only in the movie you really felt that >>

when you read the LOTR books, did you comprehend it? in the books you feel the importance of the ring much more. Maybe the way it was written and the way everyone spoke made it hard for you to follow. it slowed down my reading speed for that reason.
 


<< I finished TheHobbit a few months ago and started working on Fellowship of the Ring, got about a third of the way into it, but haven't finished it. I found the movie much more entertaining. But congrats on finishing it in three days... that's impressive to me.

nik >>



Stick with it. It gets much better. Read my 1st post in this thread, I was probably at the part where you are now, and also thought it was kinda boring, but the action picks up, especially in TTT which I'm almost done.
 
heh...I forgot about this! Well, yep, I finished the Fellowship in a week, and now I'm on the Two Towers. The book was MUCH better than the movie. You really get a feel for the characters much, much, better. 🙂
 
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