hArdyPUNKmArk
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I just finished Lord of the Rings book and fuck, it's a big read. Finally finished it, YAY!
Now I'm going to read Catcher in the Rye.
Now I'm going to read Catcher in the Rye.
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LotR
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I just finished Lord of the Rings book and fuck, it's a big read. Finally finished it, YAY!
Now I'm going to read Catcher in the Rye.
LOTR is a great read...Catcher In The Rye is my favorite book ever...
hArdyPUNKmArk
I'm better than you!
LOTR is a great read...Catcher In The Rye is my favorite book ever...
Sweet. Yeah LotR took a while but I'm glad I read it, true masterpiece of writing. So detailed.
Catcher in the Rye has been on my list of books to read for fuckin ages so I'm pretty keen to get into it. Looks like a quick read though compared to LotR lol
LOTR is a long read, but it's fun. Unlike the movies, you're not actually watching the walking. You're reading about the journey.
Catcher In Thye Rye can be finished in one sitting if you get hooked. I did it in school, and I did it one of the many times I re-read it.
Catcher In Thye Rye can be finished in one sitting if you get hooked. I did it in school, and I did it one of the many times I re-read it.
hArdyPUNKmArk
I'm better than you!
Nice,
Yeah the only bit in LotR that got a bit slow was the start of Frodo and Sam's walk after leaving the fellowship in Two Towers. It's just finished the battle at Helms Deep and everything and Isengard etc and then it's just 2 hobbits walking. But then Gollum/Smeagal comes into the picture and it takes off again. The ending is better than the movies too, how they have to save the Shire still lol from all the ruffians hehehehe
Yeah the only bit in LotR that got a bit slow was the start of Frodo and Sam's walk after leaving the fellowship in Two Towers. It's just finished the battle at Helms Deep and everything and Isengard etc and then it's just 2 hobbits walking. But then Gollum/Smeagal comes into the picture and it takes off again. The ending is better than the movies too, how they have to save the Shire still lol from all the ruffians hehehehe
The part you're referring too was slow, but there wasn't much else that could happen. Could you have really kept the information straight in your head if there was a war going on in one place, and all sorts of action in another? For a movie, that's fine, but in a book...
Shadowmancer
I am The Last Baron
The book is great try reading the prologue that Tolkien put in there before reading it. Have you read the appendices?
Next try resad ythe silmarillion, THe hobbit is good as is The Children of Hurin. I still need to find the untold tales to read.
Next try resad ythe silmarillion, THe hobbit is good as is The Children of Hurin. I still need to find the untold tales to read.
hArdyPUNKmArk
I'm better than you!
The part you're referring too was slow, but there wasn't much else that could happen. Could you have really kept the information straight in your head if there was a war going on in one place, and all sorts of action in another? For a movie, that's fine, but in a book...
Yeah I completely agree. Looking back now having read the whole thing it was done right by doing it like that but at the time it just slowed right down. But as my housemate said, "push through it and it will get awesome again" and it did.
Fucking awesome read though. I'd venture to say that LotR movies are one of the best adaptions from book to film ever done that I've seen and in a huge commercial sense. The movies did the book justice although it's the same story as most adaptions like that: The book is still so much better.
Shadowmancer
I am The Last Baron
well if you were going to do a true adaption of the book it would stretch on for days
hArdyPUNKmArk
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The book is great try reading the prologue that Tolkien put in there before reading it. Have you read the appendices?
Next try resad ythe silmarillion, THe hobbit is good as is The Children of Hurin. I still need to find the untold tales to read.
Yeah I'm going to read the Simarillion at some stage later on. I didn't read the apendix's but I flicked through them. I'm just astounded at how much of a world Tolkein created, it's a huge story with so much history.
I'm just stoked to finally finish it. I'm also really stoked to be able to start the Catcher in the Rye now too! I've been wanting to read it for a long time now.
Shadowmancer
I am The Last Baron
With the appendices the one that tolkien insisted on keeping in despite everything is the Arwen and Aragorn one
hArdyPUNKmArk
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Yeah I was wondering about that. They made a pretty big deal of Aragorn and Arwen in the movies but was only really mentioned at the end of the book and that they would get married and she would be Queen.
I'll have to check them out.
I'll have to check them out.
hArdyPUNKmArk
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That's because it's a fucking awesome story.
I've read the Hobbit a couple of times and done a couple of marathons with the movies but the book is by far the most epic. It's a legendary piece of literature. Tolkein was a genious.
I've read the Hobbit a couple of times and done a couple of marathons with the movies but the book is by far the most epic. It's a legendary piece of literature. Tolkein was a genious.
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