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Mar 26, 2008 09:16

They aired the Lord of the Rings trilogy on television over the Easter holidays. It wasn't the first time I'd seen the films, even though it took me a long time to get around to it the first time. And I never could get through the books. I got to the end of the Fellowship of the Ring once, and I got to the end of the first few pages of the Hobbit ( Read more... )

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athene_632 March 26 2008, 10:02:36 UTC

Ditto. I devoured DragonLance, but tried LotR again and again without much success. Finally, when I was old enough to read it in English, I got halfway through before deciding that I've read enough to be allowed to say I don't like it.

lovelies March 27 2008, 16:28:39 UTC

I'm glad someone else liked them better, too! Of course, having read Dragon Lance first probably totally spoiled LoTR for me.

candydarling80 March 26 2008, 12:18:34 UTC

I didn't manage to read LotR until I had seen the first movie. After that the reading got much easier because I was imagining a hot Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn. :) I enjoy Tolkien's world, but it does suck that there are so few females. He might just as well have left them out altogether and had the men boink each other. ;P

lovelies March 27 2008, 16:30:37 UTC

I do love me some bro-mance. But, I don't know. I like characters with personalities better than characters with just attributes and some shiny objects.

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lovelies March 27 2008, 16:24:05 UTC

I think that my inability to relate to any of the characters got in the way of enjoying other aspects of the writing. And it wasn't because they were male, which is historically speaking the case with most literature, but because they all were kind of... dickheads. Uninteresting dickheads, character-wise. The kid that hunts pokemons has probably got more in the way of motivation.

I actually read the Iliad for the first time when I was nine or ten. Lord of the Rings was the most loaned (lent?) book in the school library then, which boggles my mind.

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lovelies March 27 2008, 19:02:30 UTC

Yeah, the "evil is evil because it's evil" thing really wasn't working for me.

grog00 March 31 2008, 15:25:25 UTC

Reading this is one of the few moments in our friendship where I really do feel the age difference.

"When I was your age" I'd read LOTR I dunno, maybe 7-8 times, that included the Simalrillion (which came out in 1978). This was a series of books that had a profound impact on my imagination.

Now I feel old.

lovelies March 31 2008, 17:10:45 UTC

It's not the age of the book. Like I said above there, people I went to school with read it like crazy. I was in a bubble of my own reading Aeneis.

Thinking about it, I'm not sure I've read anything 7-8 times. I've maybe read one or two of the Harry Potter books three times, but I don't really have a habit of revisiting books.