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 | 08/17/2004 12:42 (08/17/2004 12:42) |
| Message-ID | <lhlUc.16524$qn2.2692@nntpserver.swip.net> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.fan.tolkien,rec.arts.books.tolkien |
| Follows | Laurie Forbes |
| Followups | Laurie Forbes (3h & 2m) > ?jevind L?ng |
"Laurie Forbes" <moc.rr.eniam@1sebrofr>skrev i meddelandet news:R3fUc.151945$bp1.110194@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
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Laurie Forbeson
| 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
| 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.quite
As a boy, I felt the very same way. As a girl, I've managed not to be
so impatient with the Mordor chapters, but really can't wait to get backto
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 surpriseto
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).One eye-opener when reading these newsgroups is discovering that there hardly is any chapter or passage in LotR that isn't someone's favourite (even, it seems, "The Departure of Boromir"), and hardly any protagonist in it who isn't adored or detested by *someone*. There has even been one poster here who claimed that Celeborn was the real hero of the book, the wisest of all Elves. There are people who diss my favourites, Faramir and Gimli and Sam; and then there are those, like you, who love Pippin, something I must confess I do not. That people get such different things out of a book should not come as a surprise, of course, but it did to me. Must be because I first read the book when I was quite young.
?jevind
08/17/2004
