Lord of the Rings Another Take on them

[Lord Schaudt]

So i hear these books are pretty horrible anyone else read them?

[xKatiexBellx]

I tried, the only LotR things I like are the movies... the books are boring, too long!:eek:

[Lord Schaudt]

And their Crack pot author didn't even finish writing some of them! all these History of the Middle Earth books, they barely half done!

[alqua]

I do hope you are joking. Tolkien didn't live long enough to finish all the great work he'd spent all his adult life writing.

I think the books are excellent.

[stridersghirl]

I read them after seeing the first film so i could understand it better cause i was a bit lost with all the different names and what was going on.

The Aragorn/Legolas/Gimli stuff at the start of the two towers is wonderful but i didnt understand their stuff in the return of the king. I did tend to skip a lot of the description out and just go to the speaking though :o maybe thats why.

The Frodo and Sam stuff in the return of the king is absolutely superb though.

[Lord Schaudt]

I loved the books, they are my favorite books of all time.


But they do need some critizism and it might just be fun



Dag blastit Tolkien, theres to many languages in your books stick to two or three please!

[Lanen]

Lord Schaudt -

If I thought for a moment you were serious, this would be a definite trouting moment! ;) As for the languages - joking again, I see! Language, of course, was Tolkien's primary concern. His Middle Earth grew out of the languages he created, not the other way around. but you knew that...

stridersgirl - no wonder you didn't get what was going on in Return of the King! :eek: There is SO much in between the lines of dialogue. Remember that movies and books are entirely different things - like fish and apples - you just can't approach them in the same way!

I am going to go away and try not to think about people reading my books and skipping all that masterful prose and just reading the 'speaking' bits - shudder - sigh...

[stridersghirl]

It was the fact that all the words he used words that to me were so complicated, and i found it hard to understand them, and found it hard to read, and so many names kept appearing, i just gave up really and tried to get the jist of what was going on, and thought stuff this

i really want to know if sam gets frodo back from those orcs

stopping the two towers when he did and then having what felt like thousands of pages before he got back to frodo/sam was just shocking !!!!

[Lord Schaudt]

Yes yes, and we all know about Tolkiens work habbits "Yes of course i'm working, heres my list of chapter titles...... 12 years later.... Im sure it will be done soon"

Dang Tolkien Shriking his real job to write LoTR!

[StarGazr]

I read FotR in a week but it's taken me over six months to read TTT... it's a very hard book to read... all of them are. It's enjoyable though. :)

[Amberion]

StarGazr - you still have the best book to go yet.

Tolkien books are the best.

Lanen - I always read the between dialogue bits - especially yours

:hug:s

[LuthienElentari]

Originally posted by Lord Schaudt



But they do need some critizism and it might just be fun



Why on earth would you want to critzite Tolkien on a website that was created by some Tolkien fans? I don't see the point. So :trout: you. And critizing JRR is not fun ( To Me at least)



Luthien