I've seen the movies, and read the books, but I feel no smarter .....
Oh, and before anyone else tells you, no emoticions in the subject line please.
Unwritten rule of TLR I'm afraid .......

Edited by - Neo_Kuja on 7/19/2004 10:47:45 PM

Read the books, watched the movies, loved them both.

i read the book, the impression i got of the elves at the time, i thought they where more like dwarves, well i was 15 at the time.

Tried to read book, got bored, watched movie instead.

I enjoy Tolkien very much. In fact, I first read LOTR when I was 8. That being said, what exactly would you like to discuss about Tolkien, O Friend of Chet?

I should probably mention that I do not speak Elvish, but I know a few Klingon phrases (don't ask, really).

I read the Hobbit at the age of about 8 and then at 10 I had a stab at LOTR. I gave up at 12 and listened to the Radio 4 dramatisation. I picked it up again at 13 and put it down again by the end of the year. This went on until I was 17, when I forced myself to read the trilogy back to back. It made no sense to me, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. The films really brought it alive for me....I swore after ROTK last year that I'll pick up the book again soon and give it a go. Maybe when I'm 60, I will actually read it and understand every word. Who knows.

Loved the first two LOTR. I was really disappointed with the 3rd. It just didn't have the same feeling as two had. It was almost as if they were not trying and they knew they had on already. Don't get me wrong it was a bad film, just not as good as The two towers. And i never read the books.

it was the films and a hobbit from Shropshire that got me to finish the books 25 years after I first started reading them. I've read the Silmarillion over and over, its by far my favourite of all T's work.

Yet to read Simillarion at all, mainly as i was under the impression that its a grand sweeping...but unfinished story.

Like Grom - read the hobbit whilst i was at school at around the age of 9 or so. It was our class book, and although our English teacher was a complete cow - she was a Tolkien fan luckily. I then read the Fellowship and Two towers as well, and i was hooked (bear in mind that i only read fantasy stuff like Tolkien, Eddings etc at this age). The Library didn't have ROTK for a good year or two due to a pupil nicking it, and i think i finally read it by around the age of 12. The whole story stayed vivid (strangely enough mainly the Fellowship!) until I read the books again a few months before the film came out.

Love the books, love the films, love the extras on the DVD that show just HOW hard they tried to get everything perfect.. The only thing that didn't seem to match my immagination was that i imagined orcs as per the normal short, fat green guy with pointy ears and teeth sticking from his lower gum out through his mouth, wearing some armor, and carrying a round sheid
The films really impressed me

I heard rumors that after the trilogy Tolkien went on to continue the history of the Middle Earth in Silmarillion style. Never read anything from that, tho, so can't say exactly.

Wisdom comes with age. But sometimes age comes alone...

LOTR? but, er, isn't that where that midget with the hairy feet is sent to go do some mission, or something like that?

I read The Hobbit, LOTR, Silmarillion and The Unfinished Tales (in english of course )... and there are over 20 more, written by Christopher Tolkien... Anyway Silma is my favourite... As all of you might already know there will be a film 'The Hobbit' in 2006.
And I give Quenya and Sindarin lessons for free


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Read the books. Suffered the films.

Tolkien was an amazing writer and the pinaccle of modern fantasy as well as it's father. But we must remember the books are based on the languages, not the stories.

I have read LOTR books since I was 8 years old. I loved each one of them! I also enjoyed the movies quite a bit.