# Surely The Lord of the Rings is one of the best stories ever written **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** middle-earth, books-writing-myths\ **Created:** [May 13, 2024, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surely-the-lord-of-the-rings-is-one-of-the-best-stories-ever-written/1001504 "2024-05-13T19:48:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2024, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surely-the-lord-of-the-rings-is-one-of-the-best-stories-ever-written/1001504/6 "2024-05-13T20:01:35Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > I think you will find disagreement with that. Here’s something that I posted in 2018: > [@Movies that were BETTER than the book they were based on](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-were-better-than-the-book-they-were-based-on/806515/68): > > I couldn’t either. But for me the movie has had a heavy-handed visit from the [Suck Fairy](https://www.tor.com/2010/09/28/the-suck-fairy/), too. I’m also in the boat of not being a fan of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings books–never even attempted to read them (fantasy not being a strong genre reading intrest for me) until only a few years ago, after the LotR movies came out–I quit on Hobbit around halfway through, quit on Fellowship probably 1/20th of the way through. Tolkien IMHO created interesting worlds but wrote very clumsy dialogue and… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surely-the-lord-of-the-rings-is-one-of-the-best-stories-ever-written/1001504)._