[ SECRET POST #1107 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1107 ⌋

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

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Comments

[fscom.livejournal.com]

127. http://i45.tinypic.com/aagowg.png

[trialia]

You know, that just makes you sound really dumb.

A book or a series being long is no reason not to read it, unless you don't have time to, and being in fandom, you clearly have time.

In this case... you really ought. It's an enhancement if you're familiar with both canons.

(not OP)

[(Anonymous)]

The lack of time is what keeps me from reading Harry Potter :( I want to, I really do but school and work take up a LOT of time. (I'm not in any fandoms either, I just really enjoy the HP movies.)

I agree though, if you have the time and love the fandom that much, it wouldn't hurt to read the books.

also not the OP

[(Anonymous)]

Some people can't stay focused that long to get through books like that. It's not that they don't have the time, it's that they just can't sit down and read a book series that's THAT huge. They'd become disinterested or frustrated if they try. Nothing wrong with the person for it, and it's fine if they just want to enjoy the movies.

[rionaleonhart]

There's nothing wrong with loving a fandom you've only experienced in one medium, even if that medium isn't the original. I loved Fullmetal Alchemist before I read the manga. I loved Sherlock Holmes before the 2009 film came out, but I don't mind the new fans who haven't read the stories (although my stance might have been different had the film not portrayed Watson so wonderfully). I'd suggest giving the books a try, because you might like them if you love the films, but if you don't there's no shame in that.

(Lying that you have read them is a tiny bit ridiculous, but this stranger forgives you, at least.)

[flax.livejournal.com]

Hey, you're the one missing out, there. It's no skin off anyone else's back if you don't want to read them.

I'm kind of embarrassed for you that you feel the need to lie about it, though.

[signifiers.livejournal.com]

The combination of that secret + your icon literally made me laugh out loud.

[oldstarnewshine.livejournal.com]

I honestly don't understand people who come out of adaptations not wanting to read the source material. I have nothing against them, it just does not compute for me. If you love it that much, why wouldn't you want to consume as much of the world as possible?

It's fine for you if you just want to be in movie fandom, but lying about it is kind of silly.

[cantfindreverse.livejournal.com]

This. It's one of the reasons I love new adaptations- it gets me into older, often times awesome stuff, like Tolkien and the old Star Trek series.

Even if it tends to ruin the new stuff for me, but I'm odd like that.

[(Anonymous)]

Loving a movie adaption doesn't mean you will love the source books, though. Of course, you can't know that before you've tried, and the OP sounds like they haven't even tried, I'm just saying.

[(Anonymous)]

OH NOES. NOT WORDS. THAT REQUIRES, LIKE, READING AND SHIT.

Get an audio book or something? Seriously.

[(Anonymous)]

Your loss, OP.

[angathol.livejournal.com]

They're like, really long

I read this in a valley girl voice.

Read the books. Skip Tom Bombadil if you must. I read these when I was 11.

[chambergambit.livejournal.com]

I kept up the same charade to my lotr-loving friends all through highschool. I finally announced the truth during my "senior speech" at an end of the year dinner. Everyone flipped the fuck out, then lol'd heartily and forgave me. It's one of my fondest memories lol.

[wordfuzion.livejournal.com]

Um...honestly they aren't that long. >.

[iiiskaaa.livejournal.com]

I've read the books, but I don't like them (The Hobbit excluded). I think the writing is mind-numbing.

[omorka.livejournal.com]

If you don't want to read them, that's your prerogative, but I don't get lying about it. It's not hard to tell who hasn't. Just like more hardcore Tolkienites than I can tell I haven't finished the Silmarillion yet, but I don't pretend I have.

Anyway, hurt-and-tortured!Frodo in your image is tasty.

[xanykaos.livejournal.com]

0.o

I wasn't really going to judge until:

"They're, like, really long."

Seriously? You typed that sentence? I'm leaning towards troll, because there's no way someone typed that sentence in regards to not having read a book unless they meant it ironically.

And the truth is...no. No they're not. For pity's sake, Twilight is longer than those books (not that I'm advocating reading that dreck), and twelve-year-old girls seem to plow through that just fine. Yeah, LotR's a little bit thick in the literary sense--very very wordy to be sure, and I'm not gonna judge someone for not reading 'em. But lying about it to kick around the fandom? It's not like it's an out-of-print comic or a hard-to-find story. Yeesh.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Librarian, so I get to say this. Yeah, those books are long.

It took me years to get through LotR. I kept getting stuck at Bree. Finally had to take a course in college to make myself read the entire trilogy. (Finished half of the Two Towers and the entirety of Return of the King in one night, but that was after dutifully reading just the assignment for weeks.) And once I'd finally read them, I didn't go back until the movies came out. But since then, I've read the trilogy again and again, and now I'm glad I made the original effort.

Skip the poetry, feel free to skim to the interesting bits, or get an audiobook version or audio adaptation. (The BBC did a really good one with Bill Nighy as Sam.) But there are things in the books which never got as far as the movie, and subtle differences in characterization which make certain fanfics make more sense in context.

[soy-soc.livejournal.com]

So... have you ever even tried reading them? (And given it long enough to get past Bombadil.) I love the movies, but when I could never get past The Two Towers when I read the books, the writing simply not being in my tastes. There's no shame in saying that his writing is too dry for you.

Lying about it seems excessive, and if it comes back to bite you in the ass you deserved it.

[midnightglass.livejournal.com]

Dude, I don't blame you. I somehow got through them when I was 12 and NEVER AGAIN. I found it only really started to get enjoyable during RotK which, you know, is quite a lot of pages in.

[dorknessrising.livejournal.com]

Not reading the books is not something to be ashamed of. I read them when I was 10, but not everybody has the attention span for Tolkien. Lying about not reading the books just to get fandom friends is what makes you a dumbass.

[lady-wormtongue.livejournal.com]

It's a shame you feel that way, because you're missing out on some really beautiful writing. :(

[wings-on-flames.livejournal.com]

When I was in school, I had a friend who loved Harry Potter the way I loved - still love - The Lord of the Rings. And while he agreed that the movies were awesome, he wouldn't read the books because they were "too long". To this day, that statement pisses me off. I don't care how long it took/takes me to finish any of Tolkien's works. They're worth it. And seeing as how you're in the fandom, you're only cheating yourself by not reading the books.

[lemonsherry.livejournal.com]

I tried reading them too and just couldn't get into it. But I'm not really interested in the fandom either.