Im upto the part where there just about to enter Mirkwood, Gandalph has turned back, but im sure we'll see him again, its quite captivating.
I read LOTR a few year back, so interesting to read about things here that are going to happen. Its very connected to the LOTR.
I have feeling theres going to be a huge battle near the end.
I like the part when Gandalf signal to the Dwarves to come in 2 by 2,
as he is telling beorn his story, and the story on how Golf was invented.
I've read the Hobbit at least once a year ever since I was seven... Its an excellent book... but I think some of you are a little confused... Tom in The Hobbit is a Troll, and is no relation to Tom Bombadil (the possible Maiar/Valar/Nature Spirit/who knows what) in LOTR... great book though...
Ah the Hobit I think is the first book I fell in love with 20 odd years on I can still read it as if if the first time! (and no its not because I have the memory of goldfish...
Unfourtunetly everyone should read the Hobbit before the LOTR it is just a great book. Can't explain it truely, can't imagine why its not introduced into the school system.... for children, the make'em read assops fables for heavens sake....
Its in our school. Yes, definatley read it before reading the other triogy books, or watching the movie. Cause just like in the mines of moria i had no idea what the crap was on when Gimli ran up to Balin's tomb.
i havent read the book in years but it IS amazing so are LOTR
which version do you have? because tolkein worte two. the orginal one, where gollum was actually kinda nice n then after lotr he realised that gollum needed to be portrayed as more evil and so rewrote his part in the hobbit to make him seem more evil. i think i read the "evil" version, and i expect you are too cuz only the really old copies have the oroginal story.
I used to hate books until I was 12 and my little brother got me The Hobbit for Christmas, and after I read it I was hooked into fantasy books and now because of that book, years later I am adapting works from Robert Jordan, George R.R. Martin, Orson Scott Card, Raymond E. Feist Tad Williams, and the list goes on and on. All because of the Hobbit
[Technically speaking, the Dwarves names were derived from an Old Norse poem, and should be spelt: Ţórin(n); Eikinskjaldi; Dvalin(n), etc. It may also be prudent of me to mention that the name Gandalf came from the Old Norse name Gandálfr, and that he was originally envisioned as the leader of the Dwarves.]
Addendum
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, is to be thought of as Bilbo's Memoir. Later, Frodo compiled his story into the same book, and entitled it The Lord of the Rings. Together, (and with some other materials added later), this collection was bound together and called the Red Book of Westmarch, because it came under the possession of one of Samwise's daughters, (who married Peregrin's son), and lived in the West Farthing. Samwise was the person who finished writing the last few chapters of the book. After many happy years, he ventured into the West as had Frodo and the others years before, the last of the Ring-bearers.
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This book keeps gettin better. Im where they are leaving Beorn's and they are venturing off into the woods
Feb 28th, 2004 01:45 AM
