The Fellowship of the Ring Acquired!

[bunnyboo]

I decided on The Fellowship of the Ring for my next book. I've read it once before (last year, actually), and what I mostly remember are hobbit genealogy and history (my favorite), a lot of walking, the strangeness that is Tom Bombadil, and Samwise being the best character. (I love Sam. I have an embarrassing crush on him.)

I tried reading it in high school and then in college, but I bounced off both times. It wasn't until I saw the movie that I was able to actually sit down and understand what was going on. Tolkien is a very descriptive writer and has a clear understanding of his world and its history, but that can sometimes be to his detriment - at least for me.

Anyways, I'm excited to read through it again and write some posts for y'all!

Comments

[shadowhive]

Good luck! I’ve never read any of the LOTR books (despite having one of them) and recently a bunch of people on twitter makes me wanna see the films again

[bunnyboo]

I'd 100% recommend The Hobbit to anyone and everyone, but the actual The Lord of the Rings series is a harder sell.

[dreamersdare]

Love those books (do not, so much, love those films, but that's because I love the books so much, I think).

I'll be interested to see what you think :)

[bunnyboo]

It'll be cool to put down my thoughts for others to see this time. I found that annotating my copy of Frankenstein was really helpful, but I'm still debating if I want to go into that level of detail with Fellowship.

[dreamersdare]

Ha, I can't write on books. They made me do it for a-level English Lit, and it made me so sad

(Mind you, I am also the person who can't use the scoresheets that come with board games. I am weirdly anal about it; no permanent changes to the game materials, dammit. I'm still holding out for games to come with a wipe-clean scoring card. I could cope with that)

[bunnyboo]

I'm the same way with board games and stuff like that. I have this weird idea that I'm ruining the "value" of it, even if I don't ever intend to sell it.

[anirrationalseason]

Ironically, I DNF The Hobbit in grade school, but got through both FotR and TTT in high school, then lost my copy of RotK and never bothered to replace it. I remember skipping large chunks of narrative description. Then, ten years ago my husband and I watched all the Special Edition extended movies, and he got the full bookset (including The Silmarillion, woo!). I read a few chapters of FotR and forgot to come back to it. (I think my bookmark is still in it... #_#)

Anyway, the point of all this rambling is that it will be nice to vicariously relive the readings through you!

[bunnyboo]

Heh, thanks! :)