Just have to bump up some threads. The forum is dying. 🙁
I love this story because two simple Hobbits who seemed so fragile and small struggle up Mount Doom to defeat great evil.
Because the Ring of Power that tempts even the best and strongest and grows heavy and seeks to consume even the soul can be unmade.
Because Galadriel, Elrond and the other Elves choose to diminish and go into the West for the sake of Middle-earth.
Because even the Dead arise to conquer evil.
Because Faramir and Eowyn suffered so much loss and sacrifices only to find each other at the end and experience so much bliss for the rest of their lives.
Because an Ent's true name speaks the essence of who he is.
Because Tom Bombadil's house has become a place to mentally retreat.
Because two creatures from different races who have been enemies for ages became friends after all they've been through.
Because Merry and Pippin learned to be servants.
Because Strider was a wandering protector before he ever became Aragorn the warrior and king.
Because every character who seeks good over evil experiences a transformation of heart and mind and spirit because of his experiences and his comrades.
Because I am more courageous and forever changed for having known them.
Those above are kinda too literal though.
On a more serious note...
I love it because it's one of the few books where I can feel joy and sadness in the same scene and even in the same breath. Some of the finest moments in life are like that, but so very few writers seem to capture that sense of the bittersweet.
I love it because the characters seem so real and so believeable that I can not get them out of my mind or heart. Generally, when I shut the pages of a novel, even a piece of "great" literature, I may say, "That was good." or "That was not so good.", but I stop thinking about it in just a little while.
This is not the case here. I care so much about LotR that I even worry what happened to these characters after the book itself ends. I can not tell you how often I have thought and wondered about how Frodo might have changed and grown in the West. Did he ever find rest before going on beyond the circles of the world, or how lonely was he, especially after Bilbo chose to pass on? How hard it must have been to be a Hobbit when no others of your kind were there!
And what about Sam. How often did his missing friend creep in to his thoughts in what was otherwise a very fulfilled life? Did he ever wonder why he had been appointed to take one path in life, and his closest friend such a very different and separate one?
How long did Treebeard live without his beloved Entwife? And how did the last Ent feel as he came to the final sleep and knew that there would be no others of his kind behind him?
And I wonder exactly how Galadriel was received as she stepped off that ship. And how Arwen felt as she sat in the forest with no Elves and no humans about her and waited, alone, for death. I know I'm not the only one to take these things to heart, since Tolkien himself admitted in his Letters that he worried deeply about Galadriel returning to Elvenhome.
You know, part of me believes that, if I could understand the meaning in this book, I would do a lot better job sorting out the values and choices in my own life. I wish I had Aragorn's certainty about knowing that right does not change. Or I wish I could be like Treebeard, able to experience sadness but still not be unhappy. And, most of all, I need the commitment and gentleness that Frodo embodied, his ability to be obedient to the path he knew was right.
How many times have I wished that Tolkien had lived another 50 years so he could have told us more of what happened in this magical world. But that's the way life is. When you have a good thing, something that has meaning, you can't help but want more and more. Well, I am glad we have as much as we do!
And finally, I love Middle-earth so much because...Tolkien believed in his world, and he made me believe in it as well. 😉
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I guess the main reason i like LOTR is it was the first books i ever really got into, and got me into fantasy. I never read books but when i saw the first book i gave it a go, couldn't put it down lol.
Also i like the whole story, how it almost grabs you and puts you in the story itself, over looking.
I love it because its a world to can get lost in, a world full of elves, orcs, hobbits, ents, ents, men, wizards, i love adventures and journeys, i love the battles, i love everything about it, i love the characters, the culture, the places, its a brilliant story that amazes me in every way, i want it so bad to be real, for there to be a real middle earth that i can escape to and live in
What I like best about lotr now besides the languages and writing systems and genealogies and especially the tragic stories of Túrin, Gondolin etc is the fact that you always discover new things... each time you read a book again there are thousands of things you never really noticed or remembered before [hence my sn - the latest new name I discovered, though I read the text in which it appears already several times before 🙄 ]
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Re: what do you like the most of lotr
Originally posted by liiiiiiiiitle
i like everything about lotr! the movies, the books,(ihave not read them), the characters, and the orcs!what do you like the most from lotr? please share it with us 😄
WHAT!!!!!! how can you not have read the books?
in my opinion there is realyno comparison between the two the books are 110% better.
sort of a Valid point (even if it is off-topci 😛 )
anyways not reading the books can cloud someones judgement on characters.....Boromir was made out to be somewhat a prat in the films, but jesus he is a kick ass guy in the books
what i like mosy about LOTR is that it wasnt just made up in a short while. For instance you have Stephen King who has wrote many books.....Tolkien only had 1 focus and that was ARDA! which made it ultra ultra awesome and special
I was day dreaming today whilst watching a teacher loose the whole classes attention.
anyways, i was wondering what my opening words would be if I had a class to my own and it was a Middle Earth/Arda class or bassically a Tolkien 101 class.
I was thinking along the lines of....
"First off, I want you to take your restrictions on fantasy, on your mind and anything you don't believe in and throw it out the window.....This class is about letting your imagination go and learning things which will never be"
Thats why I love LoTR, there are no lessons, you have to "learn"/read it all yourself, you can have your own opinion about it, you dont have to think what all the others think yet there is loads to discuss about it...
the best thing is - you dont get marks for knowing or not knowing anything 😘
I wouldn't want to have real LoTR lessons, prefer reading it myself.
Lessons make you so dependant 😛