what is your favorit LotR book, and why!

Herooftheworld · 01-21-2003, 07:24 PM

Why do you like them so much, and which ones do you like?

Elfhelm · 01-21-2003, 07:36 PM

Do you mean "book" as in Books I through VI, or as in the publisher's breakdown into three books each containing two books? Or does the whole thing count as one book, as Tolkien claimed.

If the first, I like Frodo's Quest especially, and that means Book IV and the Mordor parts of Books V and VI. Because it's like that Childe Roland poem by Browning, except it goes on and on and gets bleaker and darker and you just don't know how they can possibly survive it! And Sam is such a ROCK through it all! What a friend! I still get choked up about that.

Firekitten2006 · 01-21-2003, 07:42 PM

I *love* the FOTR

I just think it is a great book! I dont really like either books in TTT, just kinda a inbetween and kinda boring book for me, not very fun. I liked the second half of ROTK tho

Those are just great parts. Dont know why I like them exactly, I just do!

durin's bane · 01-21-2003, 07:53 PM

I like Fellowship of the Ring the best. I liked it because it was more lighthearted and easier to follow. And exciting, too! In TTT and ROTK I found it difficult to keep track of all the separate storylines. Like, for example, I was reading and I came to this part where Pippin and Merry were talking and stuff and Gandalf was there (the chapter of Pippin and the Palantir) and I was like, "Huh? When did they come along?" So I had to go back, skim read the chapter before it and, 20 minutes later, I finally understood. And ROTK had so many war scenes from different points of view which repeatedly switched back and forth. You know, Merry to Pippin to Gandalf to Aragorn back to Pippin to Merry then Pippin with Gandalf then Prince Imrahil...I got confused... I like FOTR because it was so easy to follow. I do like the Sam and Frodo parts in TTT and ROTK though. Those are the best parts of the book. I'm always like, "How many chapters 'til Sam and Frodo?"

Herooftheworld · 01-21-2003, 08:01 PM

right now i'm reading the hobbit, and it's my first tolkien book. I like it a lot. I'm at the part where Bilbo solved all of the riddels and ran out of the cave or whatever it was. Now he's deciding to go back to find Gandalf and the Dwarfs!

durin's bane · 01-21-2003, 08:03 PM

Oh yes! I love The Hobbit as well! Very well done book!

Herooftheworld · 01-21-2003, 08:09 PM

I really enjoy how it was written. I'm amazed by how much detail he put into these charecters! The book blows my mind, and I think that it always will. In fifth grade, we went to see the play in milwuakee and i loved the story ever since!

Elfhelm · 01-21-2003, 08:55 PM

Ah... well many people don't call it a book of LotR, but it's definitely a fave. Too bad there aren't any hobbits in the Silm.

markedel · 01-21-2003, 09:01 PM

I ike RoTK, though I'm partia to book III.

Dúnedain · 01-21-2003, 09:15 PM

I too am a fan of Return of the King. My favorite part of the entire saga is the Paths of the Dead. I think, for me, RotK is my favorite, because it is so filled with so many different aspects of each characters lives. I really had a hard time putting down Return of the King and found myself reading and reading and reading more so than I did with FotR & TTT. RotK also has one of the best endings EVER, not to mention but it individually culminates the future of each race, while celebrating the accomplishments they achieved together and alone. I mean, we started out with a very broad and general world full of differing types of people and creatures and in Return of the King, it brings them all together showing that they really are not different or alone, but instead they are all the same in nature.......

goodwarlord · 01-21-2003, 09:45 PM

i would like to continue reading the books

unregistered · 01-22-2003, 06:53 PM

TTT is my favorite because of Gollum...

WallRocker · 01-22-2003, 08:00 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by markedel
I ike RoTK, though I'm partia to book III.

Ditto for me

RosieCotton · 01-23-2003, 05:24 PM

Return of the King. It's hard to pick one, when they all fit together, but I think that RotK is the best, because Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers spend their time building up to the final climax: Return of the King. I also love the Frodo/Sam scenes in Mordor, Cirith Ungul, and the Grey Havens. I also think that all of the characters transform a bit, turning more into heroes, and I think that's fascinating to watch.

Rosie

Arien the Maia · 01-25-2003, 07:28 PM

I think that FotR is my favorite LotR book. I love the whole Tom Bombadil and the barrowdowns. I also love the part where Frodo, Sam and Pippin are just starting the journey...it gives you a chance to really get to know the characters' personalites.

Radagast The Brown · 01-26-2003, 04:50 PM

TTT. It's really hard to explain why...

I really don't know. It is just the most interesting book. And the funniest. (there are two good jokes in LOTR. Them both in TTT)

Dúnedain · 01-26-2003, 05:10 PM

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Originally posted by Radagast The Brown
And the funniest. (there are two good jokes in LOTR. Them both in TTT)

What are they?

Gwaimir Windgem · 01-26-2003, 07:24 PM

FotR seemed to have more humor to me, esp toward the beginning.

Linaewen · 03-07-2003, 09:08 AM

I also love TTT
I think because i love the Ents, and Faramir (one of my fave characters) is introduced.
And i love the scenes at Helm's Deep. Especially with Gimli's and Legolas' competition.
But i also really love the fighting in RoTK. What can i say? I'm a bloodthirsty person.

Gwaimir Windgem · 03-07-2003, 11:25 AM

Anywho, my favorite LOTR book is Return of the King.

Why, you ask? (Ok, maybe you don't, but ANYWAY...

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Appendices.

01-21-2003, 07:24 PM	#1
Herooftheworld Hobbit Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Kiel,Wisconsin Posts: 16	what is your favorit LotR book, and why! Why do you like them so much, and which ones do you like?

01-21-2003, 07:36 PM	#2
Elfhelm Marshal of the Eastmark Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 1,412	Do you mean "book" as in Books I through VI, or as in the publisher's breakdown into three books each containing two books? Or does the whole thing count as one book, as Tolkien claimed. If the first, I like Frodo's Quest especially, and that means Book IV and the Mordor parts of Books V and VI. Because it's like that Childe Roland poem by Browning, except it goes on and on and gets bleaker and darker and you just don't know how they can possibly survive it! And Sam is such a ROCK through it all! What a friend! I still get choked up about that. __________________ cya

01-21-2003, 07:42 PM	#3
Firekitten2006 Elven Warrior Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: the US of A! But I wish i was in austraila, never been, just think it would be a fun place to live :) Posts: 372	I love the FOTR I just think it is a great book! I dont really like either books in TTT, just kinda a inbetween and kinda boring book for me, not very fun. I liked the second half of ROTK tho Those are just great parts. Dont know why I like them exactly, I just do! __________________ I'm Baaaack!!

01-21-2003, 07:53 PM	#4
durin's bane Lady of Westernesse Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Canada (Help! Our parliament building is melting!) Posts: 761	I like Fellowship of the Ring the best. I liked it because it was more lighthearted and easier to follow. And exciting, too! In TTT and ROTK I found it difficult to keep track of all the separate storylines. Like, for example, I was reading and I came to this part where Pippin and Merry were talking and stuff and Gandalf was there (the chapter of Pippin and the Palantir) and I was like, "Huh? When did they come along?" So I had to go back, skim read the chapter before it and, 20 minutes later, I finally understood. And ROTK had so many war scenes from different points of view which repeatedly switched back and forth. You know, Merry to Pippin to Gandalf to Aragorn back to Pippin to Merry then Pippin with Gandalf then Prince Imrahil...I got confused... I like FOTR because it was so easy to follow. I do like the Sam and Frodo parts in TTT and ROTK though. Those are the best parts of the book. I'm always like, "How many chapters 'til Sam and Frodo?" __________________ Yada, yada, yada

01-21-2003, 08:01 PM	#5
Herooftheworld Hobbit Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Kiel,Wisconsin Posts: 16	the hobbit`` right now i'm reading the hobbit, and it's my first tolkien book. I like it a lot. I'm at the part where Bilbo solved all of the riddels and ran out of the cave or whatever it was. Now he's deciding to go back to find Gandalf and the Dwarfs!

01-21-2003, 08:03 PM	#6
durin's bane Lady of Westernesse Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Canada (Help! Our parliament building is melting!) Posts: 761	Oh yes! I love The Hobbit as well! Very well done book! __________________ Yada, yada, yada

01-21-2003, 08:09 PM	#7
Herooftheworld Hobbit Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Kiel,Wisconsin Posts: 16	Hobbit(part two) I really enjoy how it was written. I'm amazed by how much detail he put into these charecters! The book blows my mind, and I think that it always will. In fifth grade, we went to see the play in milwuakee and i loved the story ever since!

01-21-2003, 08:55 PM	#8
Elfhelm Marshal of the Eastmark Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 1,412	Ah... well many people don't call it a book of LotR, but it's definitely a fave. Too bad there aren't any hobbits in the Silm. __________________ cya

01-21-2003, 09:01 PM	#9
markedel 'Sober' Mullet Frosh Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Queen's Posts: 1,245	I ike RoTK, though I'm partia to book III. __________________ "Earnur was a man like his father in valour, but not in wisdom"

01-21-2003, 09:15 PM	#10
Dúnedain High King of Númenórë Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Númenórë <--United States of America Posts: 1,947	I too am a fan of Return of the King. My favorite part of the entire saga is the Paths of the Dead. I think, for me, RotK is my favorite, because it is so filled with so many different aspects of each characters lives. I really had a hard time putting down Return of the King and found myself reading and reading and reading more so than I did with FotR & TTT. RotK also has one of the best endings EVER, not to mention but it individually culminates the future of each race, while celebrating the accomplishments they achieved together and alone. I mean, we started out with a very broad and general world full of differing types of people and creatures and in Return of the King, it brings them all together showing that they really are not different or alone, but instead they are all the same in nature....... __________________ 'Et Eärello Endorenna utúlien. Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn' Ambar-metta!' - And those were the words that Elendil spoke when he came up out of the Sea on the wings of the wind: 'Out of the Great Sea to Middle-earth I am come. In this place will I abide, and my heirs, unto the ending of the world.' 'Then Tuor arrayed himself in the hauberk, and set the helm upon his head, and he girt himself with the sword; black were sheath and belt with clasps of silver. Thus armed he went forth from Turgon's hall, and stood upon the high terraces of Taras in the red light of the sun. None were there to see him, as he gazed westward, gleaming in silver and gold, and he knew not that in that hour he appeared as one of the Mighty of the West, and fit to be father of the kings of the Kings of Men beyond the Sea, as it was indeed his doom to be; but in the taking of those arms a change came upon Tuor son of Huor, and his heart grew great within him. And as he stepped down from the doors the swans did him reverence, and plucking each a great feather from their wings they proffered them to him, laying their long necks upon the stone before his feet; and he took the seven feathers and set them in the crest of his helm, and straightway the swans arose and flew north in the sunset, and Tuor saw them no more.' -Of Tuor and his Coming to Gondolin "Oh. Forgive me, fairest of all males of Entmoot...Back down, all ye other wannabe fairest males! Dunedain is the fairest!" --Linaewen

01-21-2003, 09:45 PM	#11
goodwarlord Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Kiel,Wisconsi Posts: 102	lotr books i would like to continue reading the books

01-22-2003, 06:53 PM	#12
unregistered Enting Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 85	TTT is my favorite because of Gollum... __________________ www.pbreview.com/forums I'm old Gandalf. I know I don't look it, but I'm beginning to feel it in my heart. I feel...thin, sort of...stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread. I need a holiday, a very long holiday, and I don't expect I shall return. In fact, I mean not to.-Biblo Baggins

01-23-2003, 05:24 PM	#14
RosieCotton Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Hobbiton...no wait.... Posts: 263	Return of the King. It's hard to pick one, when they all fit together, but I think that RotK is the best, because Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers spend their time building up to the final climax: Return of the King. I also love the Frodo/Sam scenes in Mordor, Cirith Ungul, and the Grey Havens. I also think that all of the characters transform a bit, turning more into heroes, and I think that's fascinating to watch. Rosie __________________ Fortune rides like the Sun on high With the fox that makes the ravens fly Luck his sould, the lightning his eye He snatches the moons from out of the sky.

01-25-2003, 07:28 PM	#15
Arien the Maia Fëanáro's Fire Mistress Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Indiana, USA Posts: 1,423	I think that FotR is my favorite LotR book. I love the whole Tom Bombadil and the barrowdowns. I also love the part where Frodo, Sam and Pippin are just starting the journey...it gives you a chance to really get to know the characters' personalites.

01-26-2003, 04:50 PM	#16
Radagast The Brown Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Israel Posts: 6,975	TTT. It's really hard to explain why... I really don't know. It is just the most interesting book. And the funniest. (there are two good jokes in LOTR. Them both in TTT) __________________ Lalala... poof! AboutNewJersey.com - New Jersey Travel and Tourism Guide

01-26-2003, 07:24 PM	#18
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	FotR seemed to have more humor to me, esp toward the beginning. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

03-07-2003, 09:08 AM	#19
Linaewen Fair Dinkum Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 2,319	I also love TTT I think because i love the Ents, and Faramir (one of my fave characters) is introduced. And i love the scenes at Helm's Deep. Especially with Gimli's and Legolas' competition. But i also really love the fighting in RoTK. What can i say? I'm a bloodthirsty person.

03-07-2003, 11:25 AM	#20
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Anywho, my favorite LOTR book is Return of the King. Why, you ask? (Ok, maybe you don't, but ANYWAY... ) Appendices. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle