The Lord Of The Rings Who Likes It?

[Guest steve]

:cool: i`ve read the books and they are a master peice...j.r.r tolkien was a visionary it took him from 1912 to the end of the 50`s to write it..it was the first of it`s kind..he also taught at stanford and harvord and now with a buget of supposedly 300 to 400 million they made the movies..the catoon was great in the 70`s but my ? is does anyone here like the lord of the rings and will u see the first movie this christmas????:cool:

[NorykoAngelcry]

I will definitely be in line to watch it this Christmas. I have been following it very closly, and though I have not read ANY of the books(I know, shoot me), I am looking forward to this movie ^_^

It looks good, and I hope it doesn't dissapoint. *shuts up*

[Sui Generis]

I have only read THE HOBBIT due to the fact that most of our stores here are sold out of THE LORD of THE RINGS series...I thought THE HOBBIT was great, it kept my attention the whole time and I love Tolein's writing style....However I can not wait till the movie comes it...It looks awesome, and if it is anything like what I have heard about the book, I am sure it will be fantastic!!:excited:

[ssj babe]

i never read the book and i never saw the movie. by looking at the little tv commercial things(i don't know what they r called) i think it seems really interesting

[Lia]

i read the hobbit and the lord of the rings series....AWSOME books! ^^ finally a book that can actually keep me reading for a while, i wanna see the movie:D

[Guest]

I heard its a good book

[ssj babe]

amber said it wuz an awesome book

[Kuja]

[SIZE=3][FONT=century gothic][COLOR=crimson]haha... im sure none of yall have read as much Tolken as i have... i read the hobbit in 4th grade and had the trilogy done by 6th grade :)... on top of that i read the silmarion and 2 other books about middle earth that i cant remember the names... these books are amazing and make the trilogy seem so tiny and insignifacant...
i just hope they F up the movie like they do so many other books, about the only 2 movies that i read first that were still good are WWW (wild wild west) only cause the book was off the movie and the green mile... was a beautiful movie... book was better but the movie didnt lose too much[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]

[Lotus]

Haven't read Lord of the Ring yet, I read The ...Towel, forgot the title. There were three part two it, and I only read two.

[Gee-enki Dama]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by kuja [/i]
[B][SIZE=3][FONT=century gothic][COLOR=crimson]haha... im sure none of yall have read as much Tolken as i have... [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [/B][/QUOTE]

*Me posts around kuja's big head


I read the hobbit, when I was about 8, then LoR when I was about 10, and this year(Im 15) and it was amazing, kept me reading for hours, and I will definately be seeing it.

[Hinata]

[COLOR=royalblue]I haven't read the book...but mystical stories and movies are interesting to me...SO I am gonna check out the movie whan it comes out...and if it's good then I might read the books.[/COLOR]

[Sara]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by NorykoAngelcry [/i]
[B]I have not read ANY of the books(I know, shoot me) [/B][/QUOTE][SIZE=1]::shoots him::[/SIZE]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by kuja [/i]
[B][SIZE=3][FONT=century gothic][COLOR=crimson]haha... im sure none of yall have read as much Tolken as i have... i read the hobbit in 4th grade and had the trilogy done by 6th grade :)... on top of that i read the silmarion and 2 other books about middle earth that i cant remember the names... [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [/B][/QUOTE][SIZE=1]I read The Hobbit in Second grade and had the trilogy done by the fourth...I've read those four through at least three times each, and the Silmarillion through once-and-a-half. [Silly me, I lost the book, and by the time i'd found it again I was already head-first into Garth Nix's [i]Sabriel[/i].] And I think I've read one other book... Can't flippin remember the name, either.... It might not have been by tolkien, though....I [i]think[/i] it was....[/SIZE]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by kuja [/i]
[B][SIZE=3][FONT=century gothic][COLOR=crimson]i just hope they F up the moviemuch[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [/B][/QUOTE][SIZE=1]You sure that's what you meant, Kuja?[/SIZE]

[Guest steve]

:cool:yes i`ve read those books as a child as well..and the other books names are the lost tales of middle earth 1,2,3..all of which where put together by his son chris tolkien..see tolkien only finished the hobbit and the three lord of the rings books but he had other stories about middle earth before the rings saga.. the lost tales are unfinished works. these were things that were only a few paragraphs, small stories,poems,some were unfinished sentences and others were in such bad condistion that chris tolkien couldn`t tell what was said...tolkien made his own world in his writings i mean his own language combining latin,greek and many others..he also left clues in how to decrip his language in his books..he made his own culture and famly trees about his characters in the stories..also he makes things sould like things from this world,like say someone in the books is telling a story to someone else.one story made a person sound like he was hitler by that he did things just about the same way hitler did. i think tolkien did that because he was in the war? also he did things like this poem for exsample....


There is a inn, a merry old inn
beneath an old grey hill,
and there they brew a beer so brown
that the man on the moon came down
one night to drink his fill.

The ostler has a tipsy cat
that plays a five-stringed fiddle;
and up and down he runs his bow,
now squeaking high,now purring low,
now sawing in the middle.

The landlord keeps a little dog
that is mighty fond of jokes;
when there`s good cheer among the guests,
he cocks an ear at all the jests
and laughs until he chokes.

They also keep a horned cow
as proud as any queen;
but music turns her head like ale,
and makes her wave her tufted tail
and dance upon the green.

And O! the rows of silver dishes
and store of silver spoons!
for sunday there`s a special pair,
and these they polish up with care
on saturday afternoons.

The man in the moonwas drinking deep,
and the cat began to wail;
a diah and a spoon on the table danced,
the cow in the garden madly pranced,
and the little dog chased his tail.

The man in the moon took another mug,
and then rolled beneath his chair;
and there he dozed and dreamed of ale,
till in the sky the stars were pale,
and dawn was in the air.

Then the ostler said to his tipsy cat:
"the white horses of the moon,
they neigh and champ their silver bits;
but their master`s been drawned his wits,
and the sun`ll be rising soon!"

So the cat on his fiddle played hey-diddle,diddle
a jig that would wake the dead;
he squeaked and sawed and quicked the tune,
while the landlord shook the man in the moon:
"it`s after three!" he said.

They roll the man slowly up the hill
and bundled him in to the moon,
while his horses galloped up in rear,
and the cow came capering like a deer,
and a dish ran up with a spoon.

Now quicker the fiddle went deedle-dum diddle;
the dog began to roar,
the cow and the horses stood on their heads;
the guests all bounded from their beds
and danced upon the floor.

With a ping and a pong the fiddle-strings broke!
the cow jumped over the moon,
and the little laughed to see such fun,
and the saturday dish went off at a run
with the sunday spoon.

The round moon rolled behind a hill,
as the raised up her head,
she hardly beleived her fiery eyes;
for thought it was day, to her suprise
they all went back to bed!

well i think that is awsome as hel and tolkien was a one of a kind.i`ve read all of his works and i admire him and i hope one day to write in a way like this man did..(not like he did) but the way he did ground braking.anyways i hope someone likes this post.it`s 420 got to go... :cool:

[Flare Falcor]

So far I've only read the Hobbit... but that's 'cause the other books are always out at the library :(.... but I loved the Hobbit, and I'm definaetly gonna go see the movie! Looks great! Can't wait!

[Stormbringer]

Love the books
Will more likely than not love the movies

Beware the Silmarilion..... it reads so SLOWLY. But in it's own way, it's still good

[Kuja]

[SIZE=3][FONT=century gothic][COLOR=crimson]yea i forgot a dont in there...
and tolken wrote another book... that his son didnt touch... i read that one.... it was like 4 stories i think... god i havent read that one in ages... probably middle school maybe freshman year of high school... it wasnt the lost stories... it was something else... now ill have to go find it in my librabry *turns around... too many books to go threw oh well*[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]

[Guest Akito]

LUV the BOOKS!!!! Read the Hobbit, and the Fellowship of the Rings, The Two Towers, and the last book, which i forgot it's name! All Classics in my mind! If tolken was alive, he would be gettin letters from me everyday to continue writting more books like Lords of the Ring!

[Sara]

[COLOR=darkblue][SIZE=1]I memorized that poem about Aragorn when I was in third grade...I just love it....

[i]All that is gold does not glitter....[/i].[/SIZE] [/COLOR]

[amibasuki]

I've read the Hobbit and am working on Fellowship of the Ring. awesome books! my boyfriend told me about the movie, so I checked out the trailer and such and am DYING to see it. December's much too far away!!!

edit: I think Elijah Wood makes a good hobbit:toothy:

[Stormbringer]

The book that is spoken of, that is 4 stories, is the Silmarilion. It tells how the whole world of Tolkien came about. Long a heck, and boring at many places, but good none the less. Expect to take a lot of time reading it.

The 3rd book in the Lord of the Rings series is Return of the King.

[Lady Macaiodh]

i'm going to see it. i love tolkien. i like the asatru influence in those books.


[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by steve [/i]
[B]it`s 420 got to go... :cool: [/B][/QUOTE]

steve, i think your watched stopped b/c it's always 4:20 w/ you...