Lord of the Rings lovers ONLY!!!! TEAM LOTR LOVERS

[arwoon]

Count me in!!!

 

[M-H-Fielding]

Wow, I've been gone too long!

 

[Boppo]

I don't know if I want to join, but I would like to

I have been a huge fan of the Hobbit and LOTR since I read the books, I think I started in what would now be called middle school, and re-read them multiple times through high school and college.

I did not much care for the early animations or attempts to make movies. The Peter Jackson movies, though were very good (though the expansion of the Hobbit was troubling). I don't know if I can say I have ONE character who is a favorite. In my youth I strongly identified with Strider (who later becomes revealed ....), but I really like Sam, and the dwarves, and all the Hobbits. I love the elves, and the Ents, and just about all the characters. It is such a fully imagined world. A bit short of female characters, which didn't bother me when I was younger, but I notice it more now.

Very excited to hear about the new Amazon Prime series, and hugely relieved that it doesn't chew over the same material as Hobbit or LOTR.

 

[Earthdale]

Tolkien rules!

 

[azurbanclucker]

Tolkien rules!

I was wondering how long it would take you to find your way over here with an profile pic like that

 

[Earthdale]

Well...

 

[Amer]

I love the LOTR books! And the Hobbit.

 

[Everose]

Just started reading the Hobbit. I like it so far, but goodness gracious it's a long winded and sometimes hard to follow story!
I feel like he could've developed his characters more, like so far I'm more than halfway through but I don't really know thorin very well, and I think he's a pretty important character.
But besides that I like it a lot.

 

[azurbanclucker]

Just started reading the Hobbit. I like it so far, but goodness gracious it's a long winded and sometimes hard to follow story!

My single biggest gripe with Pappa Tolkien has always been his annoying habit of spending 3 pages describing the trees, rocks, and grass at the roadside.

We get it, man! Move the story along please and thank you.

 

[AGeese]

Just started reading the Hobbit. I like it so far, but goodness gracious it's a long winded and sometimes hard to follow story!
I feel like he could've developed his characters more, like so far I'm more than halfway through but I don't really know thorin very well, and I think he's a pretty important character.
But besides that I like it a lot.

Oh boy, then The Hobbit is probably your stopping point with Tolkien