Google| Subject | Re: Reading LotR and the newsgroups (was Re: Don't aspire to succeed - that right belongs to America |
| From | Laurie Forbes |
| Date | 08/17/2004 05:37 (08/17/2004 05:37) |
| Message-ID | <R3fUc.151945$bp1.110194@twister.nyroc.rr.com> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.fan.tolkien |
| Follows | ?jevind L?ng |
| Followups | ?jevind L?ng (7h & 5m) > Laurie Forbes |
"?jevind L?ng" <dnivejo.gnal@swipnet.se>wrote in message news:meqTc.16075$qn2.2596@nntpserver.swip.net...
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| When 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.
As a boy, I felt the very same way. As a girl, I've managed not to be quite so impatient with the Mordor chapters, but really can't wait to get back to Gondor and Rohan. Way before I ever found this group (or a computer), I thought that everyone must feel the same way. It was a profound surprise to read here that people were doing just the opposite: gritting their teeth through the "beside the point" Rohan/Gondor stuff and looking very much forward to getting back to The Quest (tm).
-- Laurie Forbes
08/17/2004
