Google| Subject | Re: Reading LotR and the newsgroups (was Re: Don't aspire to succeed - that right belongs to America |
| From | ?jevind L?ng |
| Date | 08/14/2004 17:31 (08/14/2004 17:31) |
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"Christopher Kreuzer" <spamgard@blueyonder.co.uk>skrev i meddelandet news:dnkTc.2$df3.385221@news-text.cableinet.net...
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Christopher KreuzerWhen I read LotR as a boy, I very much enjoyed the battle scenes but thought the chapters about L?rien a bit slow. Nowadays I don't enjoy the battle descriptions in the same way (which is not to say that I dislike them), but I love the chapters about L?rien. As a boy, I thought the first three chapters of Book Four a bit boring; Frodo and Sam and Gollum just slog on and on and on. Their arrival in Ithilien came as rather a relief. I can appreciate those chapters a bit better now, but they still feel a bit dreary, which I suppose is inevitable, given what they describe.
My experience rather is of finding _new_ things with each re-reading that I hadn't noticed before. Maybe I haven't read it enough times yet... Seriously, I would hope that the magic of reading certain passages would never fade or grow stale, but I have noticed my preference for certain passages changing over the years. What I think other people have said is that as their lives change with time, so their experience of re-reading LotR is informed by this and hence is a different experience from the readings of their youth.
?jevind
08/14/2004
