A severe lack of appreciation!

Originally posted by Arroch
Errrh, What are we talking about? 😑 😑

sorry but that vader quote came on

not enough appreciation,

so I guess you have taken the time to read all of the topics/threads on this forum and officially declared we dont huh

Discos - *tut*...fool

Originally posted by Ushgarak
It's funny, whenever I read LOTR again, all that normally strikes me is "Geez, long stretches of this are really badly written..."

🙄 got to agree with you Ush, there are parts that were very badly written. Even still it doesnt change the fact that LOTR is an amazing piece of work. 😎

Ush, go suck mud!

and you Baylin.....just go

😆

Discos!

*gives another jewel*

you are a hero!

😬

All a matter of opinion
No reason to suck mud 🙄

I personally never found any passages "really badly written", but surely there are scenes better than others and some that in my opinion don't really reach the high standards of the rest of the book
but theyre still irreplaceable and brilliant
I really need a peace-smilie here 😄

@exa dont make me say something about mud to you 🙄

and what books do you like Ush? jean austin, stephen king?....all but just a few other names of people justas big and creative and awesome as me

Discos - now tolkien on the other hand 🙄

... he didnt say that he didnt like lotr

He said that some stretches are in his opinion badly written

Which is something completely different because that's true for each and every book, no matter how close to perfect balance the other sentences, pages, chapters are

Originally posted by Discos
@exa dont make me say something about mud to you 🙄

*cough* *is watching*

😕

I closed the lid on the mud box, so everythings ok now

There will always be a page or two that would seem to drag on; more like a pause in the action as part of a continuation to the story. A breather if you will.

if you look in the silmarillion, there is a paragraph where Tolkien describes a whole family of elves (I think) and mentioned their relation to each other ie step sisters cousins etc.....argh!

Whether there are long stretches that seem to drag on, it doesn't take away the excitement of the story, the one complaining about the book being bad is just lacking imagination to really appreciate said book.

i thought rivendell was extremly long it took me a while to read as it kept drowning .. to me any way

Originally posted by Shadowy_Exa
He is right about the eagle thing mind 😄

true but it would of been considerably shorter and not (in my opinion as good) but like i said thats just me.

it takes about >260 pages to actually reach something in reference to an actual "fellowship" of the ring 🙄

Originally posted by Shadowy_Exa
He is right about the eagle thing mind

I read a little in Tolkien's Letters today, there's some comment about an other planned film made of the story, and the changes are a little rigorous there - for example, most of the way the hobbits are carried by eagles

I don't exactly remember Tolkien's reply, but he said something like he already used the eagles nearly too much, it wouldn't be really believeable with too many eagle-scenes, and imo he's right about that - eagles as they are now are ok, but more influence of them would definitely ruin the story, ignoring the fact that there would be nearly no story left 😛

people say rivendell was the worst part of the book.

its my favourite, i couldnt put it down theough that chapter

rivendell sucked? who dare say this treachery.

I prefered Lothlorien myself, but how could people say Rivendell sucked, the part of the Old Forest tired me out a bit.....why couldnt the of just invented a compus right there on the spot 🙂

anyways its good though as they got to meet the ye merry Tom