*icon love* My sister couldn't read LotR until she'd seen the movies. I think it took her about five years to read and when she finished she said she was proud of herself and that she was never reading it again :)
Me, I love the books. I first read them when I was ten, on a school field trip that I loathed, so I hid out and read LotR instead. I know they're not the easiest things to read because he has a style that's all his own. I loved the Silmarillion but I know most people don't. I think it's because I love reading myths. I fell in love with parts of it, but it is 'bitty'.
I don't know what I'm actually trying to say here. Am being distracted by my damn beeping washing machine. But. Bottom line? I love the movies, and they made Rings real and necessary to me on a whole other level. I don't think it matters how we got into Rings, just that we did, and we're here. :)
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Date: 2008-12-11 08:24 am (UTC)Me, I love the books. I first read them when I was ten, on a school field trip that I loathed, so I hid out and read LotR instead. I know they're not the easiest things to read because he has a style that's all his own. I loved the Silmarillion but I know most people don't. I think it's because I love reading myths. I fell in love with parts of it, but it is 'bitty'.
I don't know what I'm actually trying to say here. Am being distracted by my damn beeping washing machine. But. Bottom line? I love the movies, and they made Rings real and necessary to me on a whole other level. I don't think it matters how we got into Rings, just that we did, and we're here. :)