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Mostly I'd just get hate, but I tried to read LOTR. I liked Fellowship enough, but The Two Towers was so tedious it made me fall asleep. But I loved the movies. In other words, I liked the LOTR movies better than the books.

At least as a teen. Maybe if I read them now it would be different.

I tried to read The Hobbit for a month and couldn't get through half. I didn't even bother with LOTR.

I don't get the appeal with the Hobbit, either. It felt like any old generic adventure story. The characters weren't interesting at all, they were all pretty one-dimensional and having 12 almost identical dwarves didn't help. It was just descriptions of their traveling and OH incident here and there.

I tried LotR and quit after one chapter.

That's not too surprising. The first half of the Hobbit drags. The second is where it picks up.

I tried to read the fellowship and got halfway thru. It was sooooooo boring.

I don't think there's anything where it's harder for me to remember that sometimes different people have different tastes and that's okay than it is with Lord of the Rings.

Like, I obviously know that in an abstract way. But with LotR I just love it so much and I think it's so brilliant and that abstract knowledge gets lost sometimes.

Sooooo sorry about that, I guess.

Idk, most Tolkien fans I know are pretty willing to admit that, yeah, he's a pretty dry writer and that's not for everyone [...and I think that's been the general response to the secrets like this that I've seen.]

I read the Hobbit with no problem.

I made it through The Lord of the Rings, but it was a slog after Fellowship.

I got maaaybe a third of the way through the Silmarillion before I threw in the towel.

I actually finished Silmarillion, but it was soooo very tedious.

I have never managed more than a paragraph of Tolkien's prose before being so bored I wanted to claw out my eyes.

Tolkien had the greatest stories to share but he should have found someone else - anyone else - to write them.

I quite enjoy Tolkien's work but it is not the easiest literature to get through, LoTR gets a bit slow in places and man the Silmarillion is a hard read. I remember the Hobbit being fun, but I was a lot younger when I read it last.

Silmarillion gets a lot better if you read it aloud btw. Fits right in there with JRRT's ideas on Anglo-Saxon oral histories.

Two Towers is very middle-bit-of-a-trilogy just read a recap page and skip straight to Return of the King and you'll get the story. Skip the bit about the Hobbits going home and go straight to the epilogue about the gray havens too.

Nah, it's fine :) Tolkien, uh, really loves details. Details in EVERYTHING. Details on every little bitty thing that happened. He interrupted a battle to tell us about the attacker's personal history, and... yeah, not that great with flow.

I mean, I personally love the fuck out of detail, and also love the fuck out of his writing. But believe me, there is no shame in not being able to get through that dense, DENSE prose. (And I say this as someone who's considered LOTR to be their favourite book since age eleven!)

I read through the trilogy in middle school, along with The Hobbit and The Silmarillion, and let me tell you I completely recognize that Tolkien's writing style isn't for everyone.

What the hell kind of twelve year old were you.

(I mean this in a good way)

A bored one who was trying hard to improve her spelling/English skills. I also had a lot of alone time I decided to spend in the library.

Aaaah, me too. Got through the 3 of them when I was 12 in like 2 weeks, I ADORED THEM. I also read basically every book King ever wrote at that time along with a lot of russian literature and other classics, it was probably the time of my life I read more books. Now I have no time. :(

Ahaha, sounds like you really had a time.

And I'm the same. I keep trying to read the latest book in a series I used to read and I can just never find the time.

I love the LOTR movies and enjoyed reading The Hobbit, but yeah, the LOTR books were pretty rough for me because I just don't like that writing style. I got through the bulk of the trilogy by reading it aloud in silly accents. There are some descriptions of Gollum in there that really wowed me, though, so I was glad I stuck with it. That and the Barrowdowns stuff, great horror imagery.

I've read The Hobbit, and most of LotR. Can't do the rest, they're just...not interesting, to me.

I never managed to finish the third book. Come to think of it, I don't think I made it through the third movie, either.

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