The Most Important Question Of The Day

[ericcoleman]

[Poll #1309305]

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[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

I answered Bilbo because I was actually able to wade my way through that book.

[born-to-me.livejournal.com]

I barely made it through The Hobbit while praying to die... then, masochist that I am, I started the first LOTR books. YIKES! I quit quickly.

I did like the movies, I might someday try to read the books again. MIGHT.

[jerusha.livejournal.com]

I had bounced off the books before watching the movies, too. Once I'd seen the first movie, the characters were people to me, and I cared what happened. Before that, not so much.

[born-to-me.livejournal.com]

I think there's truth in that for me, too. Tolkien was... um... *cough* tedious. Now that I have a grasp of the stories and the characters I think I could go back and read them, and enjoy the detail much more.

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

I had MANY friends at the time who were heavily into them, so I thought I would give them a shot even thought they didn't sound very interesting to me. My brother MADE me watch the first two movies (the first one in Spanish with English subtitles!) and they were OK, and the next year he dragged me to the third. This is my OLDER brother, BTW (they're all older).

My problem with the books is that there's just too much stuff in them that has nothing to do with moving the plot along. TH was less guilty of this than the others were.