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Two things about The Hobbit, which I started reading aloud with Sylvia last night: It is a whole lot of fun to read aloud, with opportunities for doing new voices at every turn; and it seems like it will be kind of fun to be reading in parallel with The Fellowship of the Ring.

I'm just at the point in Fellowship, where the party is leaving Rivendell; in a lot of ways this seems like the real beginning of the story, with the first half of the book having been a prologue. I'm interested in Frodo, Sam, and Strider; none of the other travellers has really got my attention yet. (Besides Gandalf of course; but he distinctly does not strike me as a real character, as a human.) Pippin and Merry both have had moments but they are generally in the background so far.

posted evening of Monday, March 30th, 2009
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are you reading it (them) for the first time?

posted afternoon of March 31st, 2009 by cleek

No; I read both The Hobbit and LOTR as a kid. I loved The Hobbit but did not really get the trilogy -- if memory serves I was mostly reading the trilogy to keep up with my friends rather than out of personal desire.

Over at Facebook today, an old friend is telling me I ought to read Silmarillion.

posted afternoon of March 31st, 2009 by Jeremy

("as a kid" == pretty young. If memory serves I was less than 10 years old when I read The Hobbit, so about 30 years ago, and about 10 when I read LOTR. I may have reread The Hobbit once in high school, and I reread it last month; definitely have not touched the trilogy in the intervening years.)

posted afternoon of March 31st, 2009 by Jeremy

I ought to read Silmarillion.

i tried that, once. failed.

posted afternoon of April first, 2009 by cleek

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