Lord of the Rings have your read them?

[Melkane]

LotR has been a part of my life for many many years, when I was a child it was the cartoon movies, here as an adult it's been Peter Jacksons masterpieces. But until the past few years, I've never actually read the books, until now. I have thanks to my mother (works at book warehouse) an extensive collection of the books about Middle Earth, I've read the Hobbit about a year ago and now I'm deep within the Lord of the Rings. After I'm done I plan to tackle the Silmarillion and go from there into the other tales. It's just such a fantastic and deep tale with so much painstaking history and rich lore it could literally be an alternate universe. It's simply amazing what Tolkien did .

Melkane Reviewed by Melkane on 08-12-2007. Lord of the Rings have your read them? LotR has been a part of my life for many many years, when I was a child it was the cartoon movies, here as an adult it's been Peter Jacksons masterpieces. But until the past few years, I've never actually read the books, until now. I have thanks to my mother (works at book warehouse) an extensive collection of the books about Middle Earth, I've read the Hobbit about a year ago and now I'm deep within the Lord of the Rings. After I'm done I plan to tackle the Silmarillion and go from there into Rating: 5

[Blitzed]

I read the hobbit, but could never really get into the the other parts of the series. A books really gotta grab me by the balls within atleast the first couple chapters for me to finish it.

[halfassedjediknight]

I read lord of the rings, the whole thing, senior year in high school.

im still in college, but when i was a freshman i read other things. i remember reading the silmarillion. so intricate and detailed, its almost hard to read but so good.

oh ps i read the hobbit in 5th grade hahahha

[Matt the Funk]

Read only the hobbit.

[Coelho]

Well... most of the english i speak today i learned reading LotR... my cousin gave me a version of it in english, and i had to struggle to understand it... at the first chapters, i would read with the dictionary on my lap, searching lots and lots of words... at the end, i was reading far better...
Anyway i did read the LotR, several times, the Hobbit, started the Silmarillion but never finished it, as my interests went to another things.

[420_24/7]

i read the hobbit and lotr, i read the silmarillion but i dont remember it much. I didn't like it that much tho

[WaZ]

Read it all. I personally didn't find the movies terribly awesome...

[rebgirl420]

I chose: I'm a big fan I've read the common stuff and even some of his less talked about works.

My dad bought me The Hobbit when I was 7, it was one of his favorites, and I was hooked right away.

Ive read the series and seen the movies. I even have these cool detailed maps of middle earth, the elf language and number systems, and all kinds of cool stuff.

Im a nerd.

[SmokenGuitar]

You are not a nerd for reading those books and having the various pieces of middle earth art . If anything it shows that you have a very imaginative mind . I have also read the series and I personally think that it beats the movies by a wide margin . When I was a youth they had Middle earth movies and shows that would appear from time to time in illustrative form . To this day , I think that the illustrative form of the books is a way better method of showing the Classic tale than ANY human actor ever could be . Dont get me wrong I liked the movies as well , but they are no where to close to the original graphic novels .

Tolkien is the greatest author of our Modern era . He ranks right up with or above Mark Twain . He is the Jimi Hendrix of the writing world ..... In my mind anyways


The silmarrillian is a difficult book to read . I have read it but it was a hard book to comprehend compared to the other works

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Read it? I starred in it! I was great, wasn't I?


Anyway, I've read The Hobbit twice, The LOTR once and I'm in the middle of The Fellowship a second time (somehow it's more enjoyable this time around).
I also have a detailed map of middle earth I bought at the bookstore some years ago, and love it (it actually really enhances the reading when you can take a look at where the characters are on the map).
I own the Silmarilian which I plan to tackle eventually... but, as is I'm reading The Dragon Reborn in Rober Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series and there's still 9 books to go after this one. What can I say, I'm enthrawled... and really, how many times can I read an adventure that I already took part in first hand? :jointsmile: