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The Hobbit
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I just finished reading The Hobbit!! I wanted to read it for sooo long, and I have finally done it!! So, guys, tell me about The Lord of The Rings!! Oh, and this is gonna sound crazy, but like, SPOILERS WELCOME!! xP

submitted by CaykeTheCook
(April 23, 2015 - 3:25 pm)

back to the Blab about Books

Ah!!! I am rereading LotR and I am like 200 pages into the Fellowship.

*looks away with dreamy eyes

I love it. 

submitted by S,.E.
(April 23, 2015 - 8:30 pm)

Peep Peep Peep for Middle earth and hobbits and elves and dwarves and wizards like Gandalf!!!!

submitted by A Little Birdie
(April 24, 2015 - 10:47 am)

Hey, i just finished reading the Hobbit too!!!!!!!

 

submitted by Owlgirl, age 11, Texas
(April 24, 2015 - 7:07 pm)

Hooray! Tolkienites Unite!

submitted by Everinne, age 15, Rohan
(April 24, 2015 - 8:56 pm)

YASSS Tolkienites!

I've just started LotR, literally today, and I'm about 180 pages into the first book! So... I'm not quite qualified to tell you about it, but we can fangirl together! 

submitted by Air
(April 24, 2015 - 8:57 pm)

The sense of detail and fullness of the world makes it so real, you know? LIke he had to have beeen there and experienced it to write so completely.

I would say the movies and books are even in quality, one of my reasons being Pippin and Merry. You get such a young, mischivious image in the movies, and somewhat the books, but they stuff like my dear and beloved hobbits and it seems very classy and very Tolkien like, but not fitting my image.

But they also took out some awesome characters like Tom Bombidal why????????

ANd Goldberry why?????????

And Farmer Maggot why??????

But otherwise most of the changes are alright. Especially the time after Bilbo leaves to the time Frodo leaves. In the book, it has always driven me nutty that Frodo is fifty and leaves twelve years later. I like how in the movie, age isn't really mentioned, and it doesn't seem like twelve years has passed, more like a few months. 

submitted by S.E.
(April 25, 2015 - 6:55 am)

EEP I LOVE IT I LOVE IT I LOVE IT

Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit are my life. I have all the books, all 6 of the movies, a billion movies posters up in my room, a bow, an elven cloak, THE LIST GOES ON AND ON. 

submitted by Cloudy Dweller
(April 25, 2015 - 4:20 pm)

It's been so long since I read The Hobbit and LoTR. About two years so I  can't  tell you much. 

The start of the first book is rather slow. But don't stop reading. It gets more exciting further on.

submitted by Shadow Dragon, age 11, No Where
(April 26, 2015 - 2:53 pm)

*bangs furiously on a locked door* I NEED TO GET OUT OF THIS HOUSE AND TO THE LIBRARY!! I am DYING to get LotR as soon as possible! Meanwhile, I am going to start celebrating the fact that I am finally part of the LotR fandom. *wipes happy tears* ANYWAYS I HAD BETTER RUN AWAY BEFORE I START FANGIRLING LIKE CRAZY. *runs away* *gibberish and screams are heard*

submitted by CaykeTheCook
(April 26, 2015 - 6:53 pm)

I read The Hobbit about a year or two ago. I do not remember that much of it. 

submitted by Rose bud
(April 26, 2015 - 7:06 pm)

I'm going to rant now.

So, I never liked Lord of the Rings. TOO. MANY. BATTLES. And names. I mean, u guys aall say it's amazing, but... I never really liked it.

Cayke, you can go ahead and read it, but I warn you: It's much more confusing than the Hobbit. Too many battles, names, and their isn't much humour.

Go ahead, LotR fans, slap me. I always liked Hobbit better than LotR, movies and books. 

submitted by Danie
(April 28, 2015 - 4:46 pm)
Oh, I ADORE Pippin in the LOTR films--especially the scene in FotR after they leave Bree and he wants his second breakfast, and looks up at the sky after Aragorn throws the apple at him.
I've never minded the exclusion of Tom Bombadil. I agree with PJ's argument that he's too detached from everything in Middle Earth to have much impact in the story. Besides, not even Gandalf is so impervious to Sauron, and TB and Goldberry are more a kind of side attraction than anything else.
My least favorite part of the film series is Faramir. Not exactly his change of character, because I feel it's a fair alteration for a man desperate for the acceptance of his father--but because of David Wenham's acting. He just seems so WRONG. Even if he wasn't morally perfect, did he have to seem so cold and cruel? Coming on the heels of Sean Bean's Boromir, he just tastes flat. And FEEBLE. Eowyn would never have fallen in love with him after harboring affection for Aragorn, I'm sorry.
Frankly, I wish PJ had killed her off in RotK rather than leave her end so unresolved. Her part in the film is much more tragic anyway, because of the intimation that Aragorn MAY have cared for her (due to Viggo Mortensen's acting), and then her last scene of any emotional depth is when he says he could never love her, and you're left thinking she never gets over it. Whereas in the book, Faramir opens her eyes and her heart to see sense. It is a little pat, admittedly, but at least it's a happy ending. The only thing not so bad about the film end is that Theoden names her his heir after he dies.
submitted by Everinne, age 15, Rivendell
(April 29, 2015 - 3:13 pm)

I just finished the second Five Kingdoms book; Rogue Knight. I'm waiting for the third.

submitted by FrozenDd, age almost 11, USA
(May 2, 2015 - 7:05 pm)

No way! I read da Hobbit quite a while ago, but I just did a school report on J.R.R.Tolkien. Did u know he was born in 1892! His full name is John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (don't ask 'bout the middle name). Tolkien actually means foolish yet brave in German. Also, when he was 2 he was bitten by a large tarantula; and some think that it lead to the giant spiders in Murkwood!:)

submitted by Saphire Dragon
(May 12, 2015 - 4:45 pm)