Is Lord of the Rings a children's book?

[Wycoff]

Originally posted by Zkribbler


You are a sick puppy. The phone book has a better plot.

The only thing I took away from it was a surprisingly large elven vocabulary...which I'm sure will come in handy the day I run into a elf.

I also enjoyed the Silmarillion.

The thing that you have to keep in mind is that Silmarillion isn't supposed to be a novel. It's more like a Beowulf type saga with a dash of Bullfinch's Mythology.

[Japher]

Beowulf kind of sucked too

[SlowwHand]

Kind of???

[Japher]

I was trying to be respectful... it is old

[SlowwHand]

Remember that when you're talking to RAH and Ming, then.

[Japher]

I try... Lord knows I try

[Drake Tungsten]

There are things tucked away in there that teens cant get either, that you can only really understand as an adult.

You can say the same thing about the Shrek movies. Does that mean they aren't children's movies?

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

There are things tucked away in there that teens cant get either, that you can only really understand as an adult.

You can say the same thing about the Shrek movies. Does that mean they aren't children's movies?

It depends how important those things are. A couple of little double entendre jokes, or important themes.

The weltschmerze of the Elves, loving the world, yet tiring of it, is something that really doesnt make sense when you're 14. Or if it does, you have major issues.

[Drake Tungsten]

The weltschmerze of the Elves, loving the world, yet tiring of it, is something that really doesnt make sense when you're 14. Or if it does, you have major issues.

Existential angst is a French speciality.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

They raise them early to be whiny little gits.

[lord of the mark]

[QUOTE] Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
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[Q Classic]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Yes. Tom Bombadil is proof enough of that.

Tom Bombadil is easily one of the most irritating, dumbest portions of the book.

It stopped me from completing the book twice; only later was I able to power through it by treating it the same way I treat Ayn Rand's 60-page philosophical rants in her books--by skipping it.

(I read them sometime in the 90's, during middle school, roughly the same time I was reading Ayn Rand. Not out of pleasure, but of an obligation: I had to read famous books.)

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[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Q Cubed

Tom Bombadil is easily one of the most irritating, dumbest portions of the book.

It stopped me from completing the book twice; only later was I able to power through it by treating it the same way I treat Ayn Rand's 60-page philosophical rants in her books--by skipping it.

(I read them sometime in the 90's, during middle school, roughly the same time I was reading Ayn Rand. Not out of pleasure, but of an obligation: I had to read famous books.)

It has to do A. With the notion of really ancient beings surviving from the eldest days B. Some old celtic-anglosaxon lore JRRT was really into C. The notion of someone whom the ring couldnt rule, but he had no human desire for power, greed, etc.

[Sprayber]

Both me and my son enjoyed the movies and lead me to actually read the book for the first time at 30. I honestly don't think most kids would make it through a lot of the book but some might.

Now for a nice childrens tale set in the Tolkien universe, I would suggest The Children of Hurin. Lot's of family inspired fun