Inspired by the same Harry Potter thread.
I am curious because I read and LOVED Harry Potter, but I cannot get into LOTR no matter how hard I try. It’s for a couple of reasons: I can’t remember the weird names, I get confused over the fake locations as well…even with the map in the book, and, most of all, I can’t stand the long winded paragraphs over seemingly nothing. So I just never read the books. Who else is out there?
I read The Hobbit in 10th grade English, then watched the first LOTR movie and said I would read the novels.
I tried to, but by GOD is that one tedious book(s). I got about three chapters in before I gave up…
Got about 70% of the way through the Fellowship. Enjoyed all the movies, though.
Forced myself to finish Fellowship. Hated it. I think the primary reason was that I’d read so many ripoffs of it by the time I started it, it was just way too cliched. Ironic, no?
I read through about 2/3 of the first book before getting utterly bored and putting it down. I did like The Hobbit, though.
I loved the Hobbit.
Read the first LoTR book, whatever the hell it’s called, and was bored shitless. Started the second book and gave up about 20% of the way in.
Found the movies pretty tiresome too, though I did see all three, and I liked the monster CGI elephant thingies.
When I was married, my wife would read it to me on long trips in the car. We made it to the very beginning of Return of the King before we split up. I haven’t finished it and remember very little of what I was read.
Every member of my immediate family (except for me). I read all the Harry Potter, The Hobbit, and LOTR.
My mom and one sister read the Harry Potter books. Otherwise, it’s just me. I feel like such an outsider.
I got through most of Fellowship back before the first movie came out, but haven’t started back up again. I still plan to, but great Og the prose he uses is a slog.
My Dad read (most of? all of?) The Hobbit to me when I was a kid. I tried to read LOTR, but I could not slog through it. A Doper recently described the books “Let’s fight! But first, let’s talk about this swamp.” I can respect the level of detail in LOTR, but I did not enjoy reading all that detail.
I’ve tried reading LOTR a few times. I loved the Harry Potter books but I can’t hack my way through the Shire; I cannot get into the books and watched but wasn’t a particular fan of the movies.
My answer is pretty much the same as in the Harry Potter thread. Haven’t read the books and am not in any kind of hurry to.
I’ve seen more of the LOTR movies than Harry Potter and the fantasy-verse is more in tune with what I would like, I still never managed to be into them.
shrugs
If my SO did that, we’d split up, too. I tried reading one of the books in high school and found it genuinely unenjoyable. Granted, I’m not a huge fantasy fan (unless Ray Bradbury counts).
I did read the first Harry Potter and found it cute, but no more deserving of fervent fandom than anything Roald Dahl’s written.
I’ve never read any of the LOTR books. We had to read the Hobbit in grade school (I was in an “advanced” program) and I associate it with the cartoon and grade-schoolers and Leonard Nimoy (Ballad of Billbo Baggins) and Dungeons and Dragons and Smurfs and other things that were popular at the time and would never ever be associated with now and it never occured to me that adults would be interested in such an absurd thing in a million jillion years.
What does Harry Potter have to do with this?
I’ve never read LOTR, Hobbit, or Harry Potter. I’ve Never seen the movies, either.
Sounds very uninteresting, to be honest.
Never ready anything LOTR related, and I don’t plan to.
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I certainly didn’t mean to suggest that Tolkien ended my marriage.
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I’ve never read LOTR, never saw the movies.
Just don’t do anything for me.
Dammit, that was exactly what I was going to say.
Read the Hobbit in middle school and wasn’t one of many people in high school who read the trilogy when the first movie came out.