[ SECRET POST #1575 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1575 ⌋


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Comments

[cephiedvariable.livejournal.com]

:/

"Much better?"

The movies are amazing, but not better than the book no matter your opinion. Which is definitely not an unpopular opinion as I hear it about 80% of every time the book comes up in conversation.

and OP you are welcome to your opinion but for some reason every time someone tells me they think this book is boring or badly written I just want to say such irrationally mean things. They are beautiful and evocative and thoughtful omggggg

[akuryounoseiki.livejournal.com]

They are beautiful and evocative and thoughtful omggggg

I like you :D

[childings.livejournal.com]

IDK I think the movies are better
Except for the lack of Tom Bombadil who was FUCKING AWESOME NO MATTER WHAT ANYONE SAYS (though I realize there is no way he would fit in the movies)

[cephiedvariable.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha, hilariously enough while I don't think the movies even begin to hold a candle to the books (despite being very incredible movies that are classics in their own right), the exclusion of Tom Bombadil thrilled me because fuck that guy. I get the point of him but he actually always struck me really out of place, which makes sense because he's technically a cameo character from another myth-story Tolkien never quite finished.

We had the biggest argument about this in my Tolkien class.

Team Bombadil, I will never understand.

[blue-bolete.livejournal.com]

It gets better if you imagine him being played by Tom Baker.

[childings.livejournal.com]

CANNOT UNSEE

[(Anonymous)]

WOW.

Well played. Very, very well played.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Oddly, I've always thought that too, specifically. And I'm not even a Who fan.

[ryttu3k.livejournal.com]

...That... that is beautiful.

[alexiel-rieth.livejournal.com]

this book is boring or badly written I just want to say such irrationally mean things. They are beautiful and evocative and thoughtful

I agree with the second part; but the beginning is too damn boring. There's other parts that drag as well (eg- floating down the river after leaving Lorien). There's several moments during the books that I just can't read 'cause it's too damned boring. In that aspect the movies did much better in getting the action moving.

[cephiedvariable.livejournal.com]

I gotta admit that I've re-read the book so many times I often skip huge passages of the opening (between A Shortcut to Mushrooms up until meeting Aragorn and then some skimming before Elrond's Council), so I don't actually disagree with you. Although the first time I read it as a kid I was enthralled by every unfolding word, which might be the problem. I think we have less time and patience for leisure activities the older we get and thus less patience for novels to take their sweet time getting somewhere. Like- I did Brothers Karamazov and Les Miserable in three days a pop at 15 and am having trouble getting through much lighter fare like A Song of Ice and Fire (weeeeeks a book) now that I'm 24 an in University.

The problem might be trying to read this shit for the first time as adults.

[alexiel-rieth.livejournal.com]

That's the same sort of issue I have too. I read all the time in high school; and now I haven't really read anything at all since Pride and Prejudice over a year ago (didn't take too long to read it, but it's still the only thing I've read in quite a while).

The only thing I can read quickly nowadays is comic books...

[topwithens.livejournal.com]

oh man, this is so true

I am also 24 and I feel like I can't even read anymore. I am trying to read Northern Lights and I started it like... 2 months ago and I'm not even halfway through. I feel like it's because I watch too many movies and TV shows. I still love books, I just find it so much harder to get into them. It's really sad. I used to be a huge reader. :(

[capthollywood.livejournal.com]

I agree 100%. The last book I read front to back was Anderson Cooper's autobiography and that was only because he's my personal hero. Otherwise, I can barely get through books I was enthralled with in my heydays of intellectual reading, like Kafka's Metamorphosis or Sinclair's The Jungle. It is a shame, too. I know those books were good, and I know it's not nostalgia.

[later-tuesday.livejournal.com]

The movies are amazing, but not better than the book no matter your opinion

No. Whether the books are better than the movies or vice versa is entirely subjective. OP is as welcome to their opinion as you are, and what you've said is just that: an opinion.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you!

[beandelphiki.livejournal.com]

but it's boring as shit tho


Seriously, I had to comment to you again because I saw what you said below about not having the attention span to read these things as adults.

I attempted LOTR first as a kid. I quite liked The Hobbit, and I was eager to read The Fellowship of the Ring. And I hated it. I will freely admit that I couldn't get much past the beginning. I read Great Expectations and David Copperfield and Moby Dick and so on at the same age, so it was not a problem with my attention span (at least for reading). The problem is the writing.

And I TRIED. I tried so hard to get through even the first third of the book. I couldn't, and was bitterly disappointed with it.

I don't care if it "gets better later." You shouldn't have to suffer through the beginning of a book to get to the part that's worth reading, and any book that is KNOWN for insufferably boring parts (particularly if one of those parts is the opening pages) may be "great" in the sense that it was highly influential (as LOTR was), but it sure as fuck isn't good writing.

[liyosa.livejournal.com]

"Some people say that FFXIII LOTR gets good only twenty hours in. You know that's not really a point in it's favour, right? Put your hand on a stove for twenty hours and you'll have started feeling the pain but you probably will have done serious damage to yourself." - Zero Punctuation

Thought this might help your point 8D.