Tolkien

I quite like Tolkein but am not a fanatic. I found the films tedious, but you can't blame a dead author for that.

I liked The Hobbitt. (fell in love with Glorfindel Didn't get far with Lord of the Rings though. Perhaps I'll try again.

jingle where have you been!!!! I loved The Hobbit. Did not enjoy Lord of the Rings.

I love the Hobbit too but found Lord of the Rings hard going.. I've been meaning to give it another go.

I haven't been anywhere Glass. I've been here.

You have a nice trip next week. (I hope)

Thanks jingle I am looking forward to it! I have just not seen much of you the last couple of days.

Oh gosh - I think I am alone in this, but I really do not like Tolkein - my children have loved his stories, but it never did anything for me I am afraid - am I alone in this?

You are not alone. I managed to get through "The Hobbit", but "The Lord of the Rings" left me cold.

I've read the whole lot twice and enjoyed them but not sure I would now. DS2 read the trilogy when he was 7 and after that he read nothing but cricket magazines for the next ten years!

When Tolkein, C. S. Lewis (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Perelandara, etc.) and a third English professor at Oxford whose name I can't remember used to meet to discuss their fictional work in progress, C. S. Lewis was known to say to Tolkein, "Not more f*****g elves!" You are definitely not alone Mishap and Elegran

I agree L of Rs needs some serious editing. had to go for a little walk around the foyer in one of the films - the one with the hours of orc wars. The beginning and the end are best.
The Hobbit hangs together as a single work of art - so why is it being made into two films? It is, though, a world as relentlessly male as an Oxford college was in those days. Quel coincidence.