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LOTR, Hobbit geek-fest

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I started out with Tolkien by reading the Hobbit my first quarter in...5th grade, I think. I had just read 20,000 Leagues in 4th grade, and after I enjoyed the Hobbit I went through the trilogy in the remaining three quarters (one per quarter). I was hooked ever since, and I think that's also when I started reading the Chronicles.
 
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scarletmike;1923756; said:
I started out with Tolkien by reading the Hobbit my first quarter in...5th grade, I think. I had just read 20,000 Leagues in 4th grade, and after I enjoyed the Hobbit I went through the trilogy in the remaining three quarters (one per quarter). I was hooked ever since, and I think that's also when I started reading the Chronicles.
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For me it was Johnny Tremain, The Red Badge of Courage, LOTR, and Dear Penthouse: The Collected Letters.
 
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knapplc;1923684; said:
The Balrog was in Moria. He said after Moria. No biggee, but I thought I'd ask.




And so we're clear, I am WAAAAAY more nerdly about Tolkien than that pic. I have all the supplemental books Christopher published posthumously, I have the Father Christmas Letters, I have Roverandom, I have The Tale of the Children of Hurin. All of it.

I even have the NECA Balrog action figure, and the Toybiz 6" Gandalf on the little stand that shouts, "You shall not pass!"


Honestly. It's a miracle I ever got laid. :biggrin:
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I can't believe a LOTR discussion has been going on and I've been missing it. I see knapplc has been doing a great job representing nerdom in my absence on this subject--thank you. :wink2:http://www.buckeyeplanet.com/forum/member.php?u=20389

And yes, the movies were a horrible bastardization of the book, that become progressively worse with each one. I think the best line in the movies, although I don't think it was intentional, was when Faramir took Frodo and Sam to Osgiliath and Sam says in despair "we shouldn't even be here". No shit! It was only Jackson's complete destruction of one of the greatest characters in the book, Faramir, that had you there instead of moving on towards Minas Morgul.


JCOSU86;1923432; said:
Some called Tom Bombadil the JarJar Binks of the LOTR books.
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And those people would be idiots.
 
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Gatorubet;1923714; said:
But the whole eco-friendly, tree-hugging, hippie chick thing really struck a cord in the 60s readers.
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Of course, the funny thing about all of that is Tolkien was the epitome of everything the hippies were against: ultra-conservative, staunch Catholic, anglophile, anti-modern, etc.

Tolkien was a environmentalist only to the degree that he thought modern man had divorced himself from his God-granted status as the steward of nature. He would have been very much against the neo-gaia worship that often accompanied the environmentalism born out of the 60s.

For an example of Tolkien's views on man and nature, look at how nature under proper stewardship (i.e. the ents and the elves, and even the hobbits to a certain degree) is exalted in his works--though even with the elves there are problems. Contrast this with how untended nature is represented in his works, such as with Old Man Willow.
 
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buckeyegrad;1924146; said:
Of course, the funny thing about all of that is Tolkien was the epitome of everything the hippies were against: ultra-conservative, staunch Catholic, anglophile, anti-modern, etc.

Tolkien was a environmentalist only to the degree that he thought modern man had divorced himself from his God-granted status as the steward of nature. He would have been very much against the neo-gaia worship that often accompanied the environmentalism born out of the 60s.

For an example of Tolkien's views on man and nature, look at how nature under proper stewardship (i.e. the ents and the elves, and even the hobbits to a certain degree) is exalted in his works--though even with the elves there are problems. Contrast this with how untended nature is represented in his works, such as with Old Man Willow.
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FCollinsBuckeye;1924127; said:
I'm a Tolkien fan too - I read the Silmarillion then the Hobbit then the trilogy every 3 to 4 years.
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I used to read LOTR every January, but then I started being able to quote entire pages of text at a time, and that became a little too much. I hadn't read it in years until this year, when I once again went through The Hobbit and LOTR. Also read Book of Lost Tales, but stopped there. Didn't want to tackle the Silmarillion again.
 
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