Read the book?

I have no idea why someone would want to start with Unfinished Tales....

Originally posted by mah
How many of you (who have seen the film), have actually read the book?

((for the first time)) when I was about six years old...

then I've read it at least once a year after that... haven't read it for a coupla years tho... started reading it again just lately, just finished Book One of the Fellowship...

Originally posted by Discos
I have no idea why someone would want to start with Unfinished Tales....

discos unfinished talesa arent aeperate stories that never got finished lol

theyre just like...if lotr dips into something and doesnt say what happend then....theres prob something in there about it lol

I just bought the silmarillion (even though i have it on my comp) and unfinished tales....still have to finish RoTK first though 🙁

yes I know bloody well what Unfinished tales is, I am just saying that it wouldnt be my first book to read for Tolkien, I dont know why, its just ....bleh

the silmarillion would be the best one you start with

Discos - infact since I missed the football I am away to read just now!

good idea Discos. The Silmarillion's kind of harder to get through than the trilogy or the hobbit, i think. i started with the hobbit.

ive read all the books and the hobbit.. and ive seen all the movies.. ive seen them so many times it hard 2 count...

you should go to the movie memorization thread then.

I think the best way is The Hobbit first, then The Lord of the Rings, then The Silmarillion, then Unfinished Tales, and The History of Middle-earth, you could read UT first before HoMe or vice versa. That way, you could have the best clues on what's going on without being hopelessly confused. 🙂 In my opinion of course. 😄 And that's the way I've read them. 😄 I'm not yet done with HoME though. 🙁 We could also read The Letters of JRR Tolkien...😄 it will be cool! 😄

I quite njoyed the Silmarillion however, the chapter "of the sun and the moon" confused me, even after the 3rd time of reading it, perhaps due to I didnt read it all at once.

why did Ulmo send the sun and moon "under" the earth?

Under the earth - because they have to return to the same side of the world again to rise 😄 would be stupid if the Sunrise would one day be in the east, next day in the west... and as the world isnt ball-shaped but like a pizza or rather like a ship at that time... hmmmm ... sun has to return subterranean ^^

yeah I came to that conclusion, but I found it rather amusing but at the same time spooky......

anyways when I was typing this people in my class asked me what I was on (I hate when people ask me what site I am on, it annoys me griefly)....anyways I said "this" LOTR forum and nearly all replied "you are always on that, arn't you?

Discos - I wonder how they know? I hardly speak to any of them

Well, they could see your monitor. 😛 Me too, I'm at school right now. 🙁 And I think this will be my last post at this hour. See you guys later. 😄

erm, it was actually the first time I have been on KMC (apart from the time in PSE which I was "alone" in the room), but I am always on it on home and they perhaps speak to me on msn and asked what I am doing..... I dont know I dont pay much attention to people who start petty conversations ie

"hello, how are you"
"yes I am good, yourself"
"I'm good"

and thats bassically a convo

that's the best kind. does anyone know for sure if jackson's going to do a movie of the Hobbit? that'd be awsome.

He definitely wants to. But there are some legal problems. Let this help: 😉

NEW YORK (AP) - Peter Jackson won't be returning to the Shire any time soon. The Oscar-winning director is planning to film The Hobbit, the prequel to The Lord of the Rings, trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien, but two studios must first fight over legal rights to the film.

Jackson said New Line Cinema has the rights to make the movie, but MGM has the rights to distribute it.

"I guess MGM's lawyers and New Line's lawyers are going to have a huge amount of fun over the next few years trying to work it all out," he told reporters recently in Los Angeles, according to AP Radio. "I'm obviously busy for a couple of years on 'King Kong' so those lawyers can just go at it for a long time."

Jackson said if he were going to direct the movie, he'd want it to feel like the rest of the trilogy. On Sunday, Jackson won an Academy Award for best director shared the adapted-screenplay award with his two co-writers for the final "Rings" film, "The Return of the King."

"I'd want Ian McKellen to be back as Gandalf, I'd want it to feel like it was part of the same mythology that we've done with Lord of the Rings," Jackson said.

🙂

thank you! The Hobbit's such a good book. you really get to know what dwarves are like.

the silmarillion explains the dwarves quite great when they first came, how did they become so selfish with the mines and whatnot

hi this is trade i just finished hobbit it is sooooooooooooo good like chocolate ice cream lol🙂