Read the book?

I loved the book 1st time round - about 20 years ago I first read it.
Now after watching the films I'm reading it again and yes it is just as good, but I find it amusing that the characters in my head when I'm reading, look and sound just like the ones in the films - strange!!

i ve read them and the simarillion (great read for those of u who thirst for more) and now im reading ythe histroy of middle earth (expanded and more detailed version of the silmmarillion in sven books, some have heaps of poems and stuff in them) im up to the third one - the lays of beleriand yes yes

Originally posted by shadow link
i ve read them and the simarillion (great read for those of u who thirst for more) and now im reading ythe histroy of middle earth (expanded and more detailed version of the silmmarillion in sven books, some have heaps of poems and stuff in them) im up to the third one - the lays of beleriand yes yes

There are twelve of them 😄 not seven... but three are about LoTR. Great stuff. The Lays are my absolutely favourite book...

Also reading them at the moment, though not systematically - I finished the first 5, now Im reading my way through the 9th (Sauron Defeated) and 12th (The Peoples Of Middle-Earth) and started 6 (The Return Of The Shadow) and 10 (Morgoths Ring, currently reading the Athrabeth) some time ago.

I am swiftly moving onot Unfinished Tales,

The books are amazing but first time round I read FOTR, I couldnt understand most of the sentance structure, the words "be thy" and whatnot....

Discos - why havn't "thee" matured?

Originally posted by Discos
why havn't "thee" matured?

Isnt it why havent thou 😛 as its nominative

erm sure why not,

Discos - its the new millenium

I've read them, and loved them. I've read the trilogy, The Hobbit, and The Silmarillion. I decided to take a break from them after The Silmarillion, because for me, it was one of the hardest books I've read.

I've read them all way before the movie came out, just starting on most of the 'Unfinished Tales' and all the other books beside...The Silmarillion is one of THE best books of all of Tolkien's work...The sentence structure didn't bother me so much compared to reading Shakespeare I guess...

It really wasn't that. You just had to remember all these names of places, and have a lot of imagination to think of what they would look like

ah, thats another good point, the names and places were confusing for me also....but not now,

I agree with Bingabongo that the silmarillion is a very hard book but I found it fascinating and thats why i am reading it for a good ole 3rd time.

I have read the LOTR, the Hobbit, and I am working my way through the Sil right now... slow going but it is worth it~!!!!

my first time i read the Silmarillion took about 2months to finish it, I read it about 3 times a week for about 1 and a half hours (when the football was on cause i dont pay attention to it)

OHH,ME!I READ IT!!!

(Is also working on Sil right now... 😛)

I've read them (LotR trilogy, Hobbit, Unfinished Tales and Sillmarion), more than once 😊

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As you are all reading the Sil I think I will also start again... I just realized how much of it I had already forgotten again 🙁

i've read the trilogy, the hobbit, and the silmarillion

Originally posted by Exa
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As you are all reading the Sil I think I will also start again... I just realized how much of it I had already forgotten again 🙁

LOL...I'm also starting again..😄 With Sil and the LOTR book. With all the hype for the LOTR movie, I've gotten things so mixed-up and I also forgot lots of things...😛

me too. it bugs me.

Originally posted by shadowy_blue
LOL...I'm also starting again..😄 With Sil and the LOTR book. With all the hype for the LOTR movie, I've gotten things so mixed-up and I also forgot lots of things...😛

Lol me too... thats why I recently re-read RoTK and will now start the sil again...