That sounds awesome! Such a sweet memory!

I got about 30 pages into the first book , that is just me and my inability to sit still and read

I love the movies re-watch them every few years

Do you mean The Hobbit or LoTR? It takes a long time to get out of The Shire. Once you get to Moria, the pace of the books picks up. The Hobbit is a kids book and does read a lot faster. If you really want a test of your reading endurance, The Silmrarilion will test your resolve. Tolkien was a linguist, not really a novelist.

If ever you want to read hilarious parody get a copy of "Bored of the Rings". It was done by Harvard Lampoon, I think. I laughed tilI I cried.

Moosetrot

So, is it over yet? You must be close to the end.

Shoot I wasn’t planning on binge-ing all of em! Just the first one.

This year we skipped, but traditionaly we had a Lord of the Rings fest for an afternoon and evening when we enjoyed the trilogy. There are several spinoffs that I have not watched for the most part.

Bryce

I am among the nerdiest of the Tolkien nerds as well, and I agree with this. The LOTR movies were decent enough. The recent Hobbit movies were not. The story is completely lost because they focused far too much attention on making it flashy and action-packed. I'm glad other people enjoy them. I suppose they're fine as fairly standard action movies, but, whatever they are, they aren't The Hobbit. The 1977 Rankin/Bass Hobbit is the one to watch.

A lot of moviegoers see it as just an action film. But, you are right, it's more than that; has a deeper meaning.

Loved all the written works, even the Similrillion.. Poems, Tom Bombadile stories. I cant get enough of it.. I even read his sons Christopher's index's... Love the LoTR trilogy, that was almost a masterpiece .. Some things like the scouring of the shire and the barrow downs I would have love to seen but I understand they cant get it all in there...
The Hobbit flms..I loved many of the actors and many scenes. I still enjoyed it and rewatch it ... But they took a lot of liberties there, some changes irked me.. Legolas killing Bolg instead of Beorn made me come out of my seat,LOL
Rings of power..... Ill just leave that one alone
Theres a depth in Tolkien's work, it goes way beyond Elves,Men Orc's, Dragons and Hobbits that I appreciate..
Im a lifelong fantasy nerd and Tolkien is the godfather of high fantasy as far as Im concerned..

At least there was an homage to The Scouring of the Shire during the Mirror of Galadriel scene. The didnt really set up anything that could of made that possible since in the movies they didnt sell off bag end and they killed off saruman. They at least tried to incorporate some lines from the books into the movie, just with different different characters saying them. or just different parts of the movies.

You really need to apply yourself more.

oh yea, I understand.. Im not upset at all just things that I would have liked to seen.
I want to see Jack Black as Tom Bombadile more than anything, even if its just a 2 minute clip.. The two towers plays pretty much on repeat in my workshop for background, not matter what Im doing I stop to watch Gandalf arrive on the first light of the fifth day during the battle of Helms Deep

You really need to apply yourself more.
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I get enough of that from my mother I don’t need it from you!

I bet Bilbo and the Dwarves would break down my door for this dinner!