[ SECRET POST #3213 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3213 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Downton Abbey]


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[Vampire Weekend]


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[John Green/Nerdfighters]


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[Spartacus: Blood and Sand]


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Comments

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I feel I kinda see both side of the coin - I myself read the books somewhere around the age of 12-13, not long after I really took to reading novels, but there were parts of the books I didn't get into (Helm's Deep, Minas Tirith) and some of the parts I did read were long and painful (Frodo and Sam's journey in the latter two books.

Some time after that I got the Silmarillion and went through it like crazy, but I feel the Silm is a bit of different beast as it was edited by Christopher Tolkien and he probably pared down a lot of his father's long-windedness just to fit everything in the one book.

Then the movies came out. I loved them. My mother, who was once encouraged to read The Hobbit by her brother back in the 70s but could never get past the first few pages, also loved the movies and could really absorb the story that way. I would note, my mother is no intellectual slouch and she does well with modern novels (she's quite the Clive Cussler fan), but Tolkien's style really didn't suit her.

So I tend to take a charitable view of people who love the movies but can't get into the books. Tolkien's style is just old enough and long-winded enough to be trying, even for some of us who did read the books.