Is Lord of the Rings a children's book?

[Cort Haus]

If you haven't read it - please say so and don't vote otherwise. Seeing the films doesn't count.

[Drake Tungsten]

Yes. Tom Bombadil is proof enough of that.

[ZEE]

i read 'The Hobbit" does that count?

[Cort Haus]

No it certainly doesn't. The Hobbit is definitely a children's book.

[Soltz]

Taking children as meaning pre-teen, I voted "no"

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
They had a novelization?

[Winston]

If one starts wondering whether a particular literary work is a children's book, it probably is..

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Soltz
Taking children as meaning pre-teen, I voted "no"

Yes, that would be the definition of children in this case.

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Winston
If one starts wondering whether a particular literary work is a children's book, it probably is..

I could read The Hobbit when I was six, but not LOTR. Much of it went over my head. Of course Drake and Asher might say that this is because I'm a ******, but I wouldn't agree.

[Drake Tungsten]

I read it when I was six and understood it perfectly. That may not be proof that you're a ******, but it is proof that I'm far cleverer than you.

[Cort Haus]

Hmm, well, perhaps I was younger than six ....

[Nostromo]

'The Hobbit' is a book for children. 'LOTR' is a book for geeky teens.

[Nostromo]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
I read it when I was six and understood it perfectly. That may not be proof that you're a ******, but it is proof that I'm far cleverer than you.

Well, at least it proves you're just full of it

[Drake Tungsten]

How dare you, sir?

[DaShi]

I'd put it more at pre-adolescent snooze-fest.