Lord of the Rings!

[kduncan5]

...just came in the mail today!!! My very first copy, and it's all mine!!! Oh, I've read it before, but it was always someone else's copy. Not anymore!

It's mine!! All mine!!!

First I gotta finish The Cataclysm (a Dragonlance chronicle...), then I gotta read The Hobbit all over again just to get the story started, then The Lord of the Rings.....

Can't wait! (/me rubbing my hands together vigorously...)

For the ones who have not read The Lord of the Rings, you probably think I've lost the one marble that I had left. But for the ones who have read it, you know exactly where I'm coming from.....

With miles of smiles -kd5-

 

[yakko]

I know exactly where you are coming from.

 

[kami]

As do I...damnit, I think I'm going to have to read it again now. Bastard!!!

 

[kduncan5]

Sorry kami, I didn't think it would be a bad thing.....:Q -kd5-




oooops! Didn't see the wink

 

[ElFenix]

i got the hard covers a couple years ago. read the silmarilion. that book is nuts, but very very good. melkor is so much more evil than sauron its not funny. and if you can do that, try the book or lost tales and unfinished tales. each character changes names like 10 times. but its still better than faulkner.

 

[damocles]

If you are a LOTR fan you really should read the Silmarillion. For me it answered lots of niggly questions that came to mind when i read LOTR. Then when you next read LOTR you see many aspects of the series in a different light

 

[Regine]

My mother goes through a cycle - about every 3 months she reads the whole series
I've only read it once, but I really like it. Maybe if I have enough time over christmas break......

Are you guys looking forward to the movie, or do you think it will never be able to live up to the books, and therefore they shouldn't bother?

 

[kduncan5]

Thanks E|Fenix and damocles, but it took me long enough just to get The Lord of the Rings. And it would be that much longer before I could read it if I put one more book in front of it.....:Q

But, one of these days I plan to read The Silmarillion, just because you said it was good -kd5-

 

[snow patrol]

I have a really old and crusty tea stained version of The Hobbit. It has 'character'

 

[kduncan5]

toolgirl, I look forward to it, and I hope that, in this technologically advanced era of special effects extravaganzas, they do an immaculate job of reproducing the characters and the scenery.

Or I'll be p*ssed! -kd5-

 

[JasonG]

I actually thought the Simarillion was incredibly boring when I tried to read it many years ago.

Maybe I should try to re-read it now (although I can't find my copy).

I think I've read LOTR at least 4 times (as well as the Hobbit).

Probably one of the best series of books ever.

I for one hope the movie(s) are good but I have my doubts that they could possibly be as good. Movies usually aren't nearly as good as the book (i.e. Dune).

Now I have the urge to re-read LOTR again too. I'll have to dig up my old paperback copies!

Jason

 

[Blackhawk2]

I'm waiting for The Wheel Of Time movie. That is gonna be one long movie with 7+ books :Q

I read Lord Of The Rings but its been so long I've forgotten what it was about

 

[Thorn]

Yeah, LotR is the best fantasy series of all time. I just got through reading it for the 10th time a month ago and it just keeps getting better and better. After you've read the LotR the first time you should go back and read the Silmarillion, the Lost Tales, The Hobbit, then LotR again (in that order). Everything becomes very clear. You'll then see Gandalf's real motivations (Hint: it involves self-preservation more than and heroic instincts) and the true reason why Aragorn was so beloved of the elves (Hint: there looks like there was an elf in Aragorn's ancestor's woodpile). Ooooooo, I love those books!


Blackhawk2,

The Wheel of Time is going to be in 3 movies (or so I've heard). The first movie will be books 1-3, the second will be 4-7, and the third will be 8-10. Still gonna be some be some really long movies... that happens when every book is almost 1000 pages long. I'm just bummed out over the direction WoT has taken. Jordan could have done so much better.

 

[EmperorNero]

it's so great to see fellow tolkienians

I've read the hobbit long ago, and loved it. then I read most books in the LOTR series. I just recently bought my own copy of LOTR and the samillarion (I also found it boring but I'm going to give it another chance). then I just asked my cousin for a hobbit book for christmas so I can reread everything.

 

[Isla]

I'm going to buy the old man the nicest hardback set I can find for Christmas, to replace the ones he had as a kid.

Tolkien rules!

 

[kduncan5]

It's been a really long time since I read LOTR, I can barely remember what happens. I know it's an exceptional story, I remember Frodo, Pippin, Gandalf, Sauron, the elves, the dwarfs, the orcs. I remember it's really sad in places, the hardship they must endure. But I remember the book sparks the imagination to the max! I can't wait to reread it..... -kd5-

 

[damocles]

I have been of the set of LOTR a couple of times and a couple of my friends are extras (one was stopped in the middle of Wellington and offered a job as an Uruk because he is so tall). The movie looks really good. However i first read LOTR when i was very young and the characters that formed in my head then have persisted with me every time i have read the books since. How can any movie compare to a persons imagination?