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01-03-2004, 02:43 PM | #1 |
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The Tolkien Statistical Reading Institute
Read the Silmarillion: 1 (am on the second time now)
Read the Hobbit: 1 Read the Lord of the Rings: 20 |
01-03-2004, 03:21 PM | #2 |
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...and the point of this thread would be?
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01-03-2004, 04:51 PM | #3 | |
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01-04-2004, 05:14 PM | #4 | ||
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I think people should also put the books they want to read next too.
Read: Silmarillion: 1 The Hobbit: 2 Lord of the Rings: (almost done) 4 Farmer Giles of Ham and the Adventures of Tom Bombadil: (almost done) 1 All other Tolkien books: 0... unfortunately Next on my list after the above are completed... Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and the Unfinished Tales.
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01-04-2004, 08:25 PM | #5 |
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The Silmarillion- lost count
The Hobbit- 4 times LotRs- 6-8 times UT- 3 times The HoMe series- plodding through them now.
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01-04-2004, 08:52 PM | #6 |
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Well if we're all showing off how much we love Tolkien.
The Hobbit: More than three times. The Lord of the Rings: About six times, but I tend to flick through it a lot and read my favourite bits. The Silmarillion: Twice Unfinished Tales: Twice The Adventures of Tom Bombadil: Once The Book of Lost Tales, Part 1: Once The Book of Lost Tales, Part 2: Once The Return of the Shadow: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part One: Once The Treason of Isengard: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Two: Once The War of the Ring: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Three: Once Sauron Defeated: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Four: Once Morgoth's Ring: The Later Silmarillion, Part One : The Legends of Aman: Once The Peoples of Middle-Earth: Once Roverandom: Once Farmer Giles of Ham: Once The Letters: Twice
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01-04-2004, 08:53 PM | #7 |
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LotR - 10
Sil - 5 UT - 3 HoME - almost finished End of the Third Age - 5
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01-04-2004, 11:16 PM | #9 |
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Hobbit - not enough times
LOTR - not enough times Sil - not enough times UT - not enough times Morgoth's Ring - not enough times Peoples of Middle Earth - not enough times Lays of Beleriand - not enough times War of the Jewels - not enough times Smith/Giles - not enough times Bilbo's Last Song - not enough times BoLT 1 and 2 - not enough times Leaf by Niggle/Fairy Stories - not enough times Treason of Isengard - not enough times Gawain - not enough times Letters of JRRT - not enough times
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01-04-2004, 11:39 PM | #10 |
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ok let's see...
The Hobbit...can't remember how many times...my mom used to read it to me when I was a kid LOTR...about 5-6...I've only ever finished it once or twice though (shame on me!!!) The Silmarillion.... 4 times and am currently reading it for the 5th time (it's my favorite!) HoME....I only have Morgoth's Ring and am reading sections of it at a time, when I'm in the mood Unfinished Tales....once but I skipped around alot |
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Not enough times. How true it is R*an.
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01-05-2004, 09:46 AM | #12 |
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Middle-earth:
Lord of the Rings: 5-6 The Hobbit: 3 Silmarillion: 6 Unfinished Tales: 2 HoME Book of Lost Tales 1: 1 HoME Book of Lost Tales 2: 1 HoME Lays of Beleriand: 1 HoME Shaping of Middle-earth:1 HoME The Lost Road:1 HoME 6-12: not yet *sigh* Letters: 1 Others: Roverandom: 2 Finn and Hengest: 1 Farmer Giles of Ham:1 Leaf by Niggle:1 That should be it, I think.
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01-05-2004, 04:13 PM | #13 |
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Lord of the Rings: 7-8 The Hobbit: 2 Silmarillion: 2-3 Unfinished Tales: 1-2 HoME 1-5 and 10-12: 1 or more, some parts of those books I've read several times, like the Athrabeth, Shibboleth, Laws & Customs, FoG etc. HoME 6-9: Not yet Letters: 1 Others: Roverandom: 1 Smith Of Wootton Major: 1 Farmer Giles of Ham: 1 Leaf by Niggle: 1 The Adventures Of Tom Bombadil: 1
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01-05-2004, 04:22 PM | #14 |
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whoa! I'm not sure I can recall...
The Hobbit - not sure, I can't recall The Sil - únótima LotR - errr... hmmm... maybe... about 5 times or so, maybe more. UT - about 3 times BoLT1 - once BoLT2 - once Morgoth's Ring (HoME-X) - twice WotJ (HoME-XI) - once PoME (HoME-XII) - once I don't think I'd like to read the other HoME books if I can get my hands on them cheap... but I think I'm just going to have to wait a while longer. |
01-05-2004, 04:26 PM | #15 |
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Middle-earth:
Lord of the Rings: 7 (will be 8 soon) The Hobbit: 2 (if you count my dad reading it to me) Silmarillion: 3 (or so, some parts read several times) Unfinished Tales: 2 HoMe 4, 6 and 7: Not at all HoMe 1-12: 1+/- (some parts I've read several times, some not at all) The Road Goes Ever On: 1 Others: Roverandom: 1 Smith Of Wootton Major: 1-2 Farmer Giles of Ham: 1 Leaf by Niggle: 1 The Adventures Of Tom Bombadil: 1 The Monsters and the Critics: 1
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01-05-2004, 04:53 PM | #17 |
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It's really pretty hard to say how many times I've read things, because after you read them a few times, you can just pick them up and read a favorite section or two ... at least, I do it that way. But I think it's about time of a cover-to-cover read of LOTR again.
Ruinel, I highly recommend HOME 3 - the Lays of Beleriand. I am NOT a poetry person, but I fell in love with this one.
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and to tempt you, Ru, a certain person of whom you're very fond is mentioned quite a bit ....
The odd little passage where Felagund and Beren went, calling themselves Nereb and Dungalef (looks closely at those names ), disguised as Orcs, before Thu (Sauron) to try to get the Sils. They are discovered when they can't blaspheme Manwe and Varda, and Thu: Quote:
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! Last edited by Rían : 01-05-2004 at 05:53 PM. |
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01-05-2004, 08:06 PM | #19 |
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Feeling like I'm in august company... maybe like a moth getting too close to the flame!
But here goes... Hobbit: 7-8ish LotR: 6-7ish Silmarillion: 1 Biography: 1 UT: 1 Letters: 1 PoME: 1/2 (my latest acquisition - I've read the parts of greatest interest to me first) |
01-10-2004, 12:45 AM | #20 |
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Wow, I'm way behind...
The Hobbit - twice LOTR - twice Silmarillion - twice I've skipped around a bit in Unfinished Tales, The Book of Lost Tales, and others, but I've never read through them.
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