Tolkien fans?

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Anyone love Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit/The Silmarillion?

*Raises hand*

I don't manage to read through The Lord of the Rings as often as Christopher Lee, but I make a point to go through it start to finish around every 3-5 years.

For shorter, more frequent doses, I pick two or three pieces from The Silmarillion and decompress.

(Shorter answer: I'm a fan)

I love the Lord Of The Rings movies. I've never read the books, though. I'm not very bookish.

Yup, but haven't read them for years now, thanks to the films replacing the usual re-read urge.
They are a product of their time, hence the purists objecting to the films expanding some female roles into more action than the passive roles in canon, but I thought that a good idea along with 'not all orcs are dark-skinned'. Others have objected, i'm sure the debate continues somewhere.

raises hand. i am.

i first had my dose of the hobbit at 2. i was weaned onto it after my mothers breast.

I like the books, i'm halfway through the second book.

I though the movies where disappointing compared to what i've read.

I plan to read The Silmarillion after I finish the trilogy.

Here.

Not all orcs are dark-skinned in the book. While there are many identifications of dark with evil and light with good in the book, that "dark does not mean evil and white does not mean good" is addressed more than once.

Only one female role is expanded into an action role in the film AFAIR. It is not entirely inappropriate, Elves being intrinsically kick-arse, but the screenwriting for Arwen is as needlessly awful as most of the other meddling. Except for the nin o chithaeglir bit, which is cool.

Galadriel, incidentally, is (by quite some way) the most innately powerful of the Elves at the time of the War of the Ring, and even with the Elves a spent force probably the second most "dangerous" person (after He Who Doesn't Like Being Named) remaining in Middle-Earth, Istari and Balrog included, at least until everyone's favourite steward gets tooled up. Especially on home turf with the diamond ring.

Hmm. I may possibly be a fan.

Yet another one here (me) guilty of loving the movies and games but having never read the books

I love Tolkien, read the full LOTR twice in three weeks when I was nine

*AA raises his hand*

The first movie will play in Portland in mid-October,
for one night only, with a 200-piece orchestra playing the music from the movie.

Tickets are on sale now.

I've tried. Forgive me. It just isn't for me. The closest thing to fantasy that I like is Highlander. Elves and orcs put me to sleep. I do have an interest in Beowulf, but more as a cultural artifact than a piece of literature.

I also love the LOTR movies! I read the books once.

I think that Autists are more interested in the world of Tolkien than NTs.
I think also that Tolkien himself had a kind of autism.
(read in the Appendix of the third book the part about the calendar of the shire)
Many persons in his books are I think also a little bit autistic.
Last year I read the Children of Hurin, and the Silmarillion. (I think that the Sil. is hundered times better than Lord of the rings)
I think Tolkien was the best fantasy author, because he invented the fantasy literature.
But to understand and to explore Tolkien it is necessary to read the Silmarillion and not only the Lord of the rings.

Yes, I love Tolkien. I discovered the LOTR trilogy by accident at about 14 or 15 - in the 1970s. I was hooked from the first page I read and have never looked back.