Lord of the rings

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FlorenceFierce · 25/09/2024 10:44

I read 2 of the trilogy when I was 11, decades ago 😂
I thought then that it was the best book ever. Never got around reading the third.

How did you find the trilogy? Did you read it recently? I haven't yet been able to convince my book mad 14 year old to have a god even though she devours any and all books.

Is it as good as I remember? Or too slow for modern tastes and attention spans?

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MaggieBsBoat · 17/10/2024 21:25

ReadWithScepticism · 16/10/2024 09:13

I loved it when young and I'm sure that I would love reading it again now except for the fact that I won't be able to dismiss the film actors from my mind's-eye images of the characters. I delayed seeing the films for precisely this reason but eventually I cracked, having read good reviews and having LOTR-devouring children who were the right age for the films when they came out.

The landscapes of the films were amazingly like my mind's-eye images, which is a powerful testimony to Tolkien's writing of the geographical aspects of his stories. But the portraits - the people - were an imposition. Especially the mimsy Frodo and the comic-relief versions of Merry and Pippin

I wonder what reading disciplines I could use to eradicate them?

I found when rereading the books after the films that my original mindseye view stayed. The people looked the same and not a single bit of the films had infected my own imagination. It makes me dewy eyed thinking of it actually. The power of the written word.

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