The Lord Of The Rings: JRR Tolkien
I am guessing that is not going to be a popular post.... 😁
I watched the first two Lord Of The Rings movies and although I thought there were some pretty cool battle scenes (Helm's Deep), they were a bit long and some bits dragged. I had never read the books though, so, when I was given some old hardback copies, I chose them for my summer holiday reading when we went on holiday two years ago. Big mistake.
Not only did the books weigh a ton and filled all my bag, but nobody warned me that they were actually really boring. In two weeks, I only managed to read a few hundred pages of the Fellowship Of The Ring and all they did was talk about stuff. There's no way I could read a whole book of that, let alone three! I had to end up buying some emergency books on my Kindle and ended up reading Plague by Michael Grant (from the Gone series) about 6 million times instead. To be frank, I nearly left the Lord Of The Rings in France.
I know the books are meant to be classics and some people love them loads, but I won't be bothering to try reading them again and my copies will be given to my cousin! Sorry Tolkien fans 😳
I watched the first two Lord Of The Rings movies and although I thought there were some pretty cool battle scenes (Helm's Deep), they were a bit long and some bits dragged. I had never read the books though, so, when I was given some old hardback copies, I chose them for my summer holiday reading when we went on holiday two years ago. Big mistake.
Not only did the books weigh a ton and filled all my bag, but nobody warned me that they were actually really boring. In two weeks, I only managed to read a few hundred pages of the Fellowship Of The Ring and all they did was talk about stuff. There's no way I could read a whole book of that, let alone three! I had to end up buying some emergency books on my Kindle and ended up reading Plague by Michael Grant (from the Gone series) about 6 million times instead. To be frank, I nearly left the Lord Of The Rings in France.
I know the books are meant to be classics and some people love them loads, but I won't be bothering to try reading them again and my copies will be given to my cousin! Sorry Tolkien fans 😳
Lord of the Rings is written in a slower 20th Century style. There are loads of allusions to all sorts of other literature (think Easter Eggs or Memes). Without broader reading experience, these get missed. Read the books again when you are in your mid-twenties.
ReplyDeleteAnother consideration is that boys these days are experienced with a much faster story telling. If you watch older movies, the story moves much slower. This is why I intentionally increase the pace of my stories for the current generation of boys. My books are long, but the pace is much quicker. - James A. Love
Oh I know that older books generally are a lot slower and I don't mind that so much (I think 80's movies are just as good as modern ones despite having a lot less action and way more talking) but LOTR was a bit too slow. Maybe I will like them more when I am
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