[ SECRET POST #2578 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2578 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, yeah... I don't want kids, but growing up, I always imagined introducing them to stuff I liked.

Of course, there's a chance they wouldn't like it. Or that they'd resist it just because if they thought you were pushing it on them.

[(Anonymous)]

Good point. After all, my Dad loves Lord of the Rings, and I just cannot get into the books. I liked The Hobbit (which I've heard is considered sub par by a lot of proper fans), and I even liked FoTR, but I couldn't get into the rest. Same with Star Trek - I just can't get into it. So there you go.

[intrigueing]

It's not considered sub-par by proper fans. It's considered not serious enough by dickish snobs who don't approve of fun.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

On Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit - noting that I speak as someone who got hold of the LotR books long before I even saw a copy of The Hobbit, and even read The Silmarillion before The Hobbit:

The Hobbit is, simply, a children's story. I will say that when I finally did read it, I also reread the Narnia series and by far, I found The Hobbit a far better reading experience than Narnia. Narnia felt like it was talking down to it's audience, while The Hobbit did not.

But when Tolkien went on to write LotR, he piled huge amounts of detail into it that he never put into The Hobbit, and by far, LotR ended up for a more mature audience than The Hobbit. Also, it seems that when Christopher Tolkien put The Silmarillion together, he took a leaf from the tone of LotR and the way that book is toned is the more mature tone of LotR.

It's not that The Hobbit is sub par (at least not in my opinion), it's just that it and LotR have such different feels to them for stories that are written by the same person and set in the same world.