I have only read The Hobbit -_- But I'll read more in the future.
What Tolkien books have you read?
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Posts: 607 (02/17/06 11:12) Valarauko |
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darkspirit vendigo |
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Posts: 1167 (02/17/06 12:00) Zmei Gorinich |
well,I read The Hobbit,The Lord of the Rings and Silmarillion only. Silmarillion is my fav from those three I guess - many storylines,but I'm not a big fan of his works.
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Lord Curufinwe |
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I have read all what darkspirit has read plus the lost tales. Which is an early version of the Silmarillion.
I like Silmarillion very much too, it is much more epic battles and more with the gods like any other of the stories. I like the beautiful descriptions. For example: And they were all listening to his stories until late in the night. And when they went to sleep, they dreamt of all the things they wished for.  |
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Posts: 607 (02/18/06 04:42) Valarauko |
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Have you read the original English version of the Silmarillion? If yes, is it very hard to read? Because I've read The Hobbit in English and I understood most of it, it was quite easy to read even though my English is not perfect, but I've heard that the Silmarillion is MUCH harder to read and far more complicated than the Hobbit. I'd like to read the original version of the Silmarillion too, but somehow I'm afraid it will be too hard for me =/ |
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Lord Curufinwe |
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No i didnt read it in english as far as I can remember
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Posts: 1692 (02/22/06 07:02) Da Sneaky Git |
Read Silmarillion ones and never really like the saga, great writing as usual but I just never snapped for it like I did with Bilbo, which I thing is his greatest work ever..
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silvaticus |
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Posts: 1031 (02/23/06 13:16) Transvaluator Of Satanic Purity |
Half of Lord of the fukking Rings.
But I`ve seen the other half as movies so... |
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Posts: 1692 (02/23/06 18:06) Da Sneaky Git |
Well, if you read the books you dont need to keep the thrash can close for the sudden vomitattack from seeing orlando bloom in ponytail doing something disgusting...
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Lord Curufinwe |
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But now that you saw the movies. Can you ever imagine the book characters different from the movie?
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Evilbone |
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Posts: 607 (02/24/06 03:15) Valarauko |
Yeah that is my problem. I've seen the movies before reading any Tolkien book. Now I've started with The Hobbit and I always imagine Bilbo, Gandalf, etc... like in the movie. And it will be the same when I will be reading LotR. That sucks a bit. I should have read the books before watching the movie, so I would have imagined the characters with my own fantasy.
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Posts: 739 (03/09/06 05:50) Corpse Without A Soul |
I felt like I had to read the books before the movies.
So I finished the LotR series in about two months.  And that was a period when I didn't read a lot, now I finnish about one 400 paged book a week - hehe. And of course I've read The Hobbit too, and I've browsed a little in Lost Tales and Silmarillion. |
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Lord Curufinwe |
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The sillmarillions first chapter with all the names and stuff, is the most complicated one. But the rest are very nice tales, so dont get scared by the first pages.
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Posts: 739 (03/09/06 08:34) Corpse Without A Soul |
I think that's what I was.
Might pick it up again later, but now I'm going to finnish Wheel of Time and then read some Kafka, Dostoevesky and George Orwell. |
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Posts: 607 (03/09/06 11:14) Valarauko |
I finished The Hobbit today and I will start with "LotR: The Fellowhsip of the Ring" soon.
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Posts: 8 (03/13/06 03:37) |
I've read Silimarillion in English and the first chapters are quite difficult, becasue all the Eldars (Gods) speak in archaic (old) English which is sometimes quite diffucult to understand... and there are a lot of different names.. but after 130 pages the book becomes very interesting and language is simplier...(normal now spoken English)
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Posts: 64 (04/01/06 01:07) Black Numenorean |
Unfortunetly, I read only The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings (and saw the film). But I hope if I've got enough time, I'll read another his books certainly.
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Posts: 1692 (04/07/06 03:07) Da Sneaky Git |
I really hope that he dont rape bilbo with another movie... :/
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Stronghold |
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Posts: 8 (04/10/06 12:38) |
Hello
Im new on this message board. Ive made me the work and have read the "Lord Of The Rings" Trilogy. But Ive read a version from the 80s. So there were 7 books to read. Ive read them in the late 90s. |
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Filosofem |
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Posts: 9 (04/13/06 08:20) |
I've read The Hobbit, LOTR and The Silmarillion
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Posts: 10 (04/19/06 12:57) Uruk-Hai |
TOO MUCH!
The Hobbit The Silmarillion LOTR The History of Middle Earth (complete set) Lost Tales (yes, it's a book!) Unfinished Tales "Letters of Tolkien" (<-pretty interesting) and some Middle-Earth related material (Lexicon, that kind of stuff  )-------------
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Lord Curufinwe |
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ah. Finally another true fan.
I forgot that I have read most of that stuff too. The letters are interesting indeed. For example when you find out, that Tolkiens vision of Gondor was rather an egyptian-style, or which "two towers" are meant with the title.  |
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