Okay? Anyone out there obsessed with LOTR like me? Seriously. I've read LOTR, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, and am now working on Lost Tales, Book 1.

P.S. I love Legolas!!!! Elves Rule!!!!!

I LOVE LOTR! I haven't read all of his other books, but I want to! And yes, Legolas rocks! (Orlando is SOOOO cute!) and aragon is awesome too!

Yeah, Aragorn is pretty cool. (Just to let u noe, my friend Becca claimed him last year) YOU HAVE TO READ THE SILMARILLION!!!! It's all about the elves and it explains soooo much. (Plus, there's a handy glossary with everyone's name and another with the meanings of a bunch of elvish words.) LOTR RULES!!!!! Yay!!!! Yes, ORLANDO is seriously hot!!!

(Yes, I do happen to noe I'm a dork, in case u were wondering.) :rolleyes: :D

lol, I know a LOT of people who have 'claimed Orlando Bloom! :P I did too!! :D But anyways, yeah LOTR is the BEST!! And they picked the greatest people to play all the characters in the movies!!!!

(And by the way Jewelz, if you're a dork, I'll have to join you, cause I'm one too!!! :D )

Yay Dorks!!!! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! I'm a hyper dork!!! Yeah, I claimed Orlando too... along with like 50,000 other girls... lol... weeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!1 :D

haha! I love the LOTR books! I read the Hobbit and I am in the process of reading the Two Towers... at parts it just gets so boring because he uses like 20 pages to describe the weather and the color of the trees leaves... but the books rock!

I love the lord of the rings series almoat as much as il ve the harry potter series ive read the books in seen the movies over in over again in again

:angry: NOOOOO!!!!! ORLANDO IS MINE!!!! MINE MINE MINE!!!!!! LOL JK (he is mine though) i love lotr it is my fave book series along with Chobits :D , Harry Potter (of course) :wizard: and A Series of Unfortunate Events :huh:

Yeah, the descriptions in these books is just sooooo amazing. It might be just a little too much in some places, but oh well, cause it just fits into the story perfectly.
And lots of people don't like reading old books! I mean, JRR Tolkien wrote these quite some time ago, and they are still really really popular!! Now that's writing that will last a loooooong time!!

I can't be bothered reading them,

are they better then the movies?

If not, then I dont think I will bother...

I made myself read them and I liked LOTR a LOT better than the Hobbit. The Hobbit bored me so much. Aragorn and Legolas are super sexy *yay*. Although at the end of Return of the King when it rambled on about pubs for 100 pages, I just gave up and skimmed the last part of it :-P

See, I actually read the books before I saw the movies.... *Yay Legolas!* And they are better than the Hobbit. But I actually read the entire books.... Appendixes and all...

i just got done reading fellowship. I am nnow on the two towers

The books have more description than the movies... and the movies left some stuff out, so it depends if you want to read the whole story or not darko. I thougt they were worth reading, but maybe you won't think so *shurgs*

the books are great, they give a bit more in depth stuff than they have in the movies. LOTR is better than the Hobbit though, in my opinion. But The Hobbit has a dragon, which is pretty cool. If you think LOTR is hard to get through, try reading the Silmarilion. Now THAT'S hard to get through.

I have read the books and seen the movies. I am a total Lord of the Rings FREAK!!!

P.S. Orlando is MINE!!!



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I do love the LOTR, even though Tolkien's writing style isn't my favorite (which I am more than willing to admit is entirely a matter of personal taste). The books explained a lot more than the movies did, filling in holes and giving a much more rounded story. However, I was surprised at how well the movies captured the spirit of the books. They may have bent some of the details around, but if the end result was to preserve the feeling of the story, then I applaud them.

I'm not sure who my favorite character would be. I really am an elf fanatic at heart (which makes me swoon for both Legolas and Aragorn), but so many of the other characters could touch you deeply that I can't particularly say that so-and-so was my favorite.

I will say however, that I absolutely detest the Simarillion. If I wanted to read endless genealogies broken up by bland exposition, I'd read the Bible (and have, actually). It's really quite obvious that Tolkien himself didn't write the Simarillion; it's not at all a story the way the LOTR trilogy is a story. While reading it all I could think of was that here were the notes of a brilliant mind, to be used to keep the details of a narrative accurate and consistent... but not to be glued together into some shambling excuse for its own narrative.

Yes, the Simarillion does explain a lot of backstory that isn't fully explored in the trilogy. However, getting through that god-awful book was a physically painful experience. You'd be much better off going over to some kind of wiki (One Wiki to Rule Them All or wikipedia) and learning all the same info without the hassle. I do feel for Christopher Tolkien and difficulties he faced when trying to put together the Simarillion... but I still recommend a wiki for learning the world's backstory.

I'm reading the books now and find them quite slow. I've been reading the FotR for about 9 months. I find it quite slow. Tolkin writes weird in my opinion. I do love the EE movies though, so I just keep telling myself that sooner or later I will get to the scene where so-and-so does this and that. I keeps me reading........... for awhile.