Community Admin@Sir_Named just finished watching the 3 LOTR films and the 3 Hobbit films with my son. I didn't want to inflict the books on him, but saying that he is now listening to the unabridged audio books and complaining where the films digressed from the books. 😃
May the lore be with you as you enter the killing fields of the arena.
You have a son?
Well, unfortunately, as the internet society has put it, megasimp. Had to do it to ya.
I like reading, (as long as it's a good book), but I couldn't go through the entire LOTR series. It was far too difficult to remember who is who, plus Tolkien takes forever to get from point A to point B. Great that your son is working on it!
@Sir_Named yes, and a daughter too.
I got through the lotr and all the rest of tolkiens stuff when I was but a twig, I was a voracious reader. But I never got into the fantasy role play gaming and read very little these days. i wasn't sure how to introduce it to him and really didnt want to hand him the books as it would be like handing him a mountain in this day and age. So I started with eragon audiobook, as he loved audiobooks while multitasking (gaming) then the film,.
Then the lotr films and now the unabridged audiobooks (by Robert Englis). He now wants the maps and the history stuff that tolkien wrote, so its been a successful intro to fantasy writings.
Theres also a tape recording that tolkien made of himself reading bits of the hobbit in 1954 i think, that is a very interesting insight to the authors imaging of his book. Its on yt now
