LORD OF THE RINGS!!!

[Meriadoc Brandybuck]

welcome, welcome! I'm glad you agreed to read it! now...you must read The Silmarillion, which I have not read but want to. It is necessary to understanding LotR, from what I hear.

Yup. It contains a lot of information. Did you read my last post? It fit your opinion nicely.

[TawnyDestrange]

welcome, welcome! I'm glad you agreed to read it! now...you must read The Silmarillion, which I have not read but want to. It is necessary to understanding LotR, from what I hear.

I quite agree, the Silmarillion is an example of great literature at its finest. It will also "fill in the blanks" in the other books, so to speak. It is a difficult read, and a bit dizzying, but well worth the time.

[Bilbo Baggins.]

same here. I see the world differently than everybody else I know. I long ago gave up on trying to explain how I see things to people, because no one ever understands.

I know, right? I try to explain to people that LOTR isn't just about Orlando Bloom, but it has many themes and ideas and theories that go deeper than one might first see. The ideas behind the elves, Tolkien's perfect people, and their love for nature, the theories of nobility and the honor system and kinsmanship and going beyond expectations and finding deeper emotions and appreciation of what Tolkien created and how difficult it was and how much we can learn from it and, and, and this is also a very long run-on sentence so I shan't try to put my feelings into words. I can't quite describe exactly how I feel about it either, because it's just kind of the kind of thing that you either appreciate the tangible and intangible aspects of, or you don't.

I know. I have a friend who claims that "Lord of the Rings is stupid. None of it is real; its just some dumb guy making up a world of nonsense!" she is obviously not intellectual at all, nor does she know how to appreciate or comprehend literature at its finest. Then again, this is the same friend who does absolutley nothing but sit around on facebook... but still, it makes me mad when she says "at least I don't read about Gumbledoofuses!" then I have to go on about how Gandalf is not Dumbledore, and explain how awesome he is, and on and on and on until her short attention span takes over and she leaves the room.

[☆ ★TARDIS]

So many people think that Lotr is just about 'a ring that some midget throws into a volcano'. But it's so much more than that! I have have a friend who hates fantasy stories. She quit Narnia after the first paragraph, which was a sentence long because it started with one upon a time. *sigh*

[TawnyDestrange]

So many people think that Lotr is just about 'a ring that some midget throws into a volcano'. But it's so much more than that! I have have a friend who hates fantasy stories. She quit Narnia after the first paragraph, which was a sentence long because it started with one upon a time. *sigh*

That`s what my Mum thinks of LotR. My Dad and I have tried to convince her otherwise, without success.

[Lunaestrella]

I hate when people say that. Its such a complex story...
Oh! And now I know who Tom Bombadil is!!! I can't believe they missed him out in the movies

[Bilbo Baggins.]

yes. that was Peter Jackson's worst idea EVER.

[Meriadoc Brandybuck]

No kidding.

Darn. Just finished watching FOTR on YouTube, and mom won't let me watch TTT because I'm supposed to go to my brother's baseball game. Lol nope, I went last week. I'm going to watch the movie, whether you like it or not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIgNECCunqk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
This whole video, just...it's too perfect.
Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

[Crow Jane]

it was too epic to not post here.
I want to see Hobbit here and now. :B it's so much time to December...

[Lunaestrella]

Thats funny!
I know! I just wish it could be December now...