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Post by cold on Feb 10, 2007 15:59:34 GMT -5
I forgot how well written and engrossing this was, I started reading it again a few days ago.
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Post by C. on Feb 10, 2007 16:02:33 GMT -5
This I think was one of the greatest books ever. It was well written, descriptive, and the perfect start for the Lord Of The Rings.
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Post by s on Feb 10, 2007 16:25:57 GMT -5
I really liked it. And then I tried to read the first LoTR book, and it wasn't nearly as good.
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Post by cold on Feb 10, 2007 16:28:36 GMT -5
Different genre really, LOTR was written firsty because the publisher demanded a sequel to The Hobbit, it was written some time after it as well, and The Hobbit was originally intended to be in a seperate universe from the rest of Tolkien's Legendarium, and it's a much more children-orientated book.
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Post by slither on Feb 10, 2007 18:11:27 GMT -5
I've read it and I really really liked it. I read it and then tried to read the LotR series, and I couldn't get into them but The Hobbit was fantastic. I should probably read it again sometime.
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Post by PJ on Feb 11, 2007 1:06:54 GMT -5
I liked it better than Lotr. Really great book. I ought to read it again.
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Post by Linda Rhaldeen on Feb 11, 2007 2:30:27 GMT -5
It was definitely better than Lotr. I haven't read it in...six years. I need to read it again.
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Post by Dismay on Feb 11, 2007 15:00:28 GMT -5
Finally, people who liked The Hobbit better than Lord of the Rings like me! All of my friends think I am crazy because of it. I thought The Hobbit was interesting, funny, and generally better. I had to read it for eigth grade English. It was awesome. The teacher was a great teacher, and we all created riddles and stuff. This was also the first teacher I had who let us hurl Shakespearian insults at each other....
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Feb 12, 2007 21:53:32 GMT -5
I actually read the Hobbit after reading Lord of the Rings. I liked it a little less or maybe just the same as LOTR.
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Post by C. on Feb 20, 2007 8:21:12 GMT -5
I think the LOTR books were worse than the Hobbit. Something about their discriptiveness or something made them boring.
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Post by scottifer on Feb 21, 2007 12:38:01 GMT -5
I tried to read The hobbit, before. I got to the drwarves coming to bag end and I gave up. For some reason.
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Post by C. on Feb 23, 2007 7:56:19 GMT -5
I do that with some books. If I already read them or I am starting to read them, some of them are so boring that I cant go past the first page. Hobbit was not like that. It grabbed my attention from the first page.
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Post by scottifer on Feb 23, 2007 14:35:33 GMT -5
I do that with some books. If I already read them or I am starting to read them, some of them are so boring that I cant go past the first page. Hobbit was not like that. It grabbed my attention from the first page. Thats kind of what happened with me. Except with Harry potter. But to be on topic; I might bug my older sister to let me read her hobbit. I want to understand more LOTR. Its just how I am. ;D
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Feb 24, 2007 22:13:09 GMT -5
I wouldn't stop reading random lotr books until I felt I knew the whole story. Including the Silmarillion. And even then I still didn't know about the whole prophecy of the end of the lotr world. So I looked it up online and found out what happened. Then I was satisfied. But there are still more books I haven't read.
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Post by scottifer on Feb 27, 2007 16:06:31 GMT -5
You never get enough info do you? heh.
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