How did you get involved with LOTR book?

[Neutrino]

One of my friends in middle school was reading Tolkien's books, and he recommended them to me.

[Imran Siddiqui]

shorthand isn't going anywhere. so u might as well just live w/ it.

Yeah, it isn't going anywhere. Especially not on these forums where no one but you uses it .

[JohnT]

Imran, yavoon:

[Pekka]

Yeah, it's been portrayed as a book that you have to read, even if you don't read books, or especially fantasy books. A book you have to have in your shelve, like you have the bible and Dostojevskis.

[JohnT]

<--- owns neither a Bible or a Dostojevski...

[Pekka]

JohnT, you are a bad person.

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Originally posted by JohnT
I tried reading the Hobbit, found it to be most odd: juvenile and pretentious. Never bothered with the rest (even though they aren't as juvenile as the others, so I've heard).

I thought the Hobbit was by far the best (I was 13, I prob wouldn't like it if I picked it up today)... I couldn't even make it through the LOTR. I read part of the first one and just found it to be, like you said, very pretentious and very boring.

I really don't see what people like in that stuff.

[JimmyCracksCorn]

I think what it comes down to, for me, is that JRR Tolkien is nothing more than a conceited, self-absorbed *******.

Anyone ever read "The Silmarillion" by him? Its nothing by grammar, maps, definitions and songs. God, just awful...

[Pekka]

JimmyCracksCorn, true, but he was a linguist. Also, he did say that the whole work is of his interest to linguist things.. or that there was a strong leaning towards that direction.

[Verto]

The Silmarillion was great. He did it because he wanted to. Nothing conceited about it.

[Q Classic]

you don't have a dostoyevski, johnt? man.

then again, the only one i've read is crime and punishment... i liked it. no annoying singing high turds like tom bombadildo.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Crime and Punishment:

I hate those, let's examine the human psyche books. 'The Scarlet Letter' was like that... horrid.

[Q Classic]

the scarlet letter was horrid. at least crime and punishment had a whore and an axe murderer.

two things that even LOTR didn't have.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Well I got to the whore and the axe murderer... then I got bored of it .

And if you were a Christian moralist, then I guess you could say the Scarlet Letter had a whore .

[Q Classic]

nathaniel hawthorne is way overrated. and jeebus, anybody with half a brain was wondering why they didn't just burn hester prynne for having that dumbass name. dostoyevski isn't horrid, but i've yet to read his other work.