07-03-2003, 03:57 PM | #141 |
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I saw the movie, and after a while began to like the whole LOTR thing, and my dad got out his old copies of the books and I ate them up in less than a month. I love LOTR!!
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07-03-2003, 10:06 PM | #142 |
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i read it for one reason, in the end of the hobbit it says if you wish to know more about hobbits read lord of the rings
AND I DID!
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07-03-2003, 10:10 PM | #143 |
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I had to read the HObbit as required reading in high school lit class. Then I read the LotR. Wow... I was hooked! Then I read The Sil... O.O! And that was it... I was a total fan. I've since read other books that Chris Tolkien has put out by his father JRRT.
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07-03-2003, 11:26 PM | #144 |
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I read The Hobbit because I got it for Christmas one year, and then I read LotR partly because I wanted more from Tolkien, and partly because my friends and family had been nagging me to read it for a while. Now I'm rereading LotR and it's even better the second time.
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07-05-2003, 06:55 AM | #145 |
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Because I heard of the movie and thought that it sounded interesting. But just to mention it: I did read the books before I saw the movie.
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07-05-2003, 07:21 AM | #146 |
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In school, we'd set up a play highly influenced by 'the Hobbit'. A couple of years later we were going to chose a book to read. I chose 'The Hobbit' since I wanted to see how much the book ressembled our school play. I was hooked.
Then I read 'The Silmarillion' and afterwards I was simply forced to read LotR, which was supposed to be Tolkien's greatest work.
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07-06-2003, 02:44 AM | #147 |
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I'm one of those people who read the books to see why their was such a hyped-up movie about it. At first I didn't like it (pre-FotR) and then I loved it (pre-TTT). I guess that's one more reason I should like the movies. (The other reason- Orlando Bloom! )
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Though I didn't like how some things in LotR was given away in Sil.
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07-06-2003, 10:48 PM | #151 |
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When I was really little my dad read The Hobbit for me and my brothers. I thought the story rocked and I remember seeing other books on his shelf that were done by JRRT (the trilogy). My dad said he wouldn't read those to me because they were too long so I forgot about it for a couple of years until I was old enough to reread The Hobbit for myself and then I went straight into LotR.
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07-08-2003, 11:40 PM | #153 |
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Just happened to see it in a bookstore(paperback) about 1974 or so...cover looked cool, bought all three...got halfway through FOTR, realized I needed to read The Hobbit, found it, read it. Started over on LOTR...hooked ever since.
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07-09-2003, 01:56 PM | #154 |
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I heard the film was coming out and my friend leant me hers to read and i got hooked and bought them all and about another million tolkien books! they rock!
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07-26-2003, 12:04 AM | #155 |
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i read lotr because my friend gave me fotr as a gift, and i read it and bought the rest of it too. simple as that.
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07-26-2003, 01:17 AM | #156 |
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The Hobbit was recommended to me a couple years ago. I read half of it and didn't like it. When the movie came out my friend went MAD about the books and the movies and I decided to go along with it. So this summer I read the other half of The Hobbit and LOVED it. Then I read FOTR and I think that The Hobbit is just a "pretty good" book because of it. And I'm not ashamed to say I'm still reading TTT, but I've recently been going on LOTR websites so now I'm officially-not hooked-nailed to LOTR. FOTR is the only thing I watch when I'm bored at home (and somebody else isn't hogging the T.V.)
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07-26-2003, 07:29 PM | #157 |
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I had to read The Hobbit in school but then I read only about 10 pages, decided it was boring (shame on me! ) and didn't read any more. Then, after some years, I came across with the book and decided to read it after all and found it extremely interesting.
But LOTR was recommended to me by my friend, she was reading it and mentioned to me that it was interesting. At first she didn't even tell me that it was connected with The Hobbit but as we have similar taste of books, I wanted to read it anyway. So after she had finished reading, I borrowed the books from her and found LOTR the best book I had ever read. I got Silmarillion also from her. But now I've bought both the books (LOTR and Sil) and am reading them again.
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07-27-2003, 10:26 AM | #158 |
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my brother had taken an interest in the Hobbit when we were young. After seeing the animated movie a bunch of times, I decided to read the Hobbit. When I heard they were making movies of the series, I decided to read LoTR, and then read the Silmarillion out of my own interest in the book and the languages.
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08-03-2003, 03:09 AM | #159 |
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I'm only 15, but The Lord of the Rings is my dad's favorite book, so when he heard the movies were coming out, he wanted to make sure I read it before I saw the movies.
So I read FotR and I sort of had to push my way through it, but after I saw the movie I understood the story better and I read TTT and RotK almost non-stop until I finished and now it's MY favorite book as well as my dad's. Also, I have just recently read the Hobbit for the first time so I actually read the LotR before I read the Hobbit. I enjoyed the Hobbit, but I didn't like it nearly as much as the Lord of the Rings.
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08-09-2003, 06:07 AM | #160 |
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I saw them adverised in a book club, so I thought I would buy them. Glad I did. Although I am still reading The Fellowship of the Ring I have to admit that this is my favourite book to date.
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