Converts to LotR!!!

The Ringbearer · 12-02-2002, 05:29 AM

I've made 2 converts to LotR in the last few months! And one of them didn't even LIKE LotR before she began reading the books and watching the movies! Has anyone else had similar experiences?

Goldberry1 · 12-02-2002, 04:47 PM

My cousin said that the movie was so stupid, so naturally I tried to get her to watch FOTR while we were on vacation, and she did watch parts of it. Then when we went home and she actually went out and rented it!! She's trying to start the books but hasn't had much time because of school. She really likes it now though.

Sminty_Smeagol · 12-02-2002, 07:22 PM

I have gotten 2 friends in to the movies/books. And one in to Tengwar. Those I can safely say are MY converts. However, I think I have enfluenced many people in my class, and they know I am THE tolkienist in my class, so ocassionally people will mention that they watched LOTR, or ask me about Tengwar, and they know I am knowledged in it and would like to converse about it.

But then I have a friend who has been reading LOTR every year for like, 3 years, and I was very complimented when he assumed I was very tolkien-wise, and was surprised that I have only been reading it one year. I really am not knowledged LOTR -I have only read it once, and that was a year ago, and I have a hard time remembering characters outside the Fellowship- but I have read the Silm, parts of HomE and Unfinished Tales. And of course I was EXTREMELY complimented when he assumed I knew more than him about ME.

Anyone know how to get a hand on HoME? The whole series?

***Rían*** · 12-02-2002, 07:29 PM

I've heard you can order the whole series on Amazon.com for a good price. Still pretty pricey, though.

cassiopeia · 12-02-2002, 11:17 PM

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Originally posted by Sminty_Smeagol
Anyone know how to get a hand on HoME? The whole series?

You could try the library. My local library has all the HoME, I think.

Well, I have converted two people. A few years ago, I made my sister read the books and now she loves them. And a few months ago I kept talking about the LOTR book and movie to a friend of mine, so we went to see the movie. I tried to get him to read the books, but he hasn't yet.

***Khamûl*** · 12-03-2002, 12:16 AM

Well, I tried to get my mother to read The Hobbit.

This was after I dragged her to the theater to see FotR. She didn't even get to the part with Bilbo and the Trolls. She says that there were too many dwarves and people to keep up with. At least I tried.

Inderjit Sanghera · 12-03-2002, 10:26 AM

Thoguh I try to encourage people to read them, I don't pursue it very far. If they don't like LOTr, then they don't like whether they think it is stupid or for losers. It's their decision. I have got a few friends who have a little intrest in M-E, but they aren't really intrested in it.

Agburanar · 12-03-2002, 11:34 AM

My sister watched the movie and thought it was brilliant

. Then I leant her the books and now she is totally anti-movie and pro-book. Hooray!

***Sister Golden Hair*** · 12-03-2002, 12:08 PM

Moving to Lord of the Rings book forum.

Khadrane · 12-03-2002, 11:03 PM

A friend of mine read The Hobbit in fifth grade because I convinced her to and never told me she hated it until about a year ago. But when the LotR movie came out, she read it again and loved it, and then she read LotR, and now Tolkien is her favorite author. (At least, he was a few months ago)

I'm happy!

Nimphredil · 12-04-2002, 11:15 AM

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Originally posted by Khamûl
Well, I tried to get my mother to read The Hobbit

My mother was the person who convinced me to read the Hobbit. At first i wasn't interested to it at all and didn't want to read it. But then i started to read the part where Bilbo and Gollum are solving the riddles and then i was hooked. That was years ago, and now i have read (don't know how many times) lotr and sil also. My mother has read the lotr also, but she keeps forgotting all the names, she has made me way bigger fan that she is.

I don't have such luck - none of my friends want to read it. One of them just asked (while he was looking over my shoulder) what's a hobbit. btw he has seen the movie, and he doesn't remember anything from it and he never wants to see it again. I tried to explain that the book and the movie are compleately different things. But he isn't a big reader, so why push it.

WallRocker · 12-04-2002, 11:36 AM

My Mom was the first one to get me to read the Hobbit as well. Then I picked up LOTR when the movie came out(fortunately, before I saw the movie). After my Mom saw the movie, she admitted to me that she had never read the books! So she is now starting FOTR. It'll take her awhile to get throught it, but I'm making sure it happens

Elven Princess Arwen · 12-04-2002, 10:59 PM

I'm in the process of trying to convert my friend but she refuses. She doesn't like LOTR, she doesn't like Harry Potter (thank god or she'd drive me insane) but i'll convert her yet!

“All things are connected like the blood which unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.” -Chief Seattle

“How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own?” -Schopenhauer

*~*Arwen*~*

Renille · 12-05-2002, 11:16 PM

I made my whole family into LOtR converts!! My mom is reading the book aloud to my smaller siblings, while my 14 year old brother is currently on "The Return of the King." Isn't it wonderful...but I think everyone in the world should read JRRT's series at least ONCE. That would be ideal.
I think everyone should start buying cheap copies of FoTR and leave them on airport seats, restaurants, places like that...with bookplates telling the finder to keep the book, read it, and put it somewhere else.

Haha. Nice idea, few funds.

Agburanar · 12-06-2002, 10:06 AM

You talk of LotR like it's a religion..... instead of a whole lifestyle!

Elfhelm · 12-06-2002, 02:56 PM

I read The Hobbit to my daughters. The rest they did on their own. They are both fanatical JRRT fans.

TolkienGurl · 12-07-2002, 02:09 PM

My two little boy cousins (6 and 10 years old) are my new converts to The Lord of the Rings. First they watched the Fellowship with me, and then the extended DVD, and now they want me to read them the Hobbit! Oh, and their Christmas list consists of ALL the LotR action figures! Every time I see them they ask me a TON of really intelligent questions. I'm so happy they like LotR!

I'm a cool cousin.

Renille · 12-08-2002, 12:40 AM

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Originally posted by Agburanar
You talk of LotR like it's a religion..... instead of a whole lifestyle!

See...I don't personally think it's either...just a wonderful book. I guess I already have a religion and don't have time for an alternate lifestyle. High school is confusing enough!

Falagar · 12-08-2002, 11:01 AM

I have tried to convert two of my friends to LotR.
One of them have almost finished it, he loves the movie (but mostly because of the sword-fighting), and the other one got to Caradhras, before he stopped reading it

So now most people in my class thinks the guy who loves sword-fighting (and haven't finished RotK yet) is the Tolkienist...
Well well, let them live their lives in unconciusness!

samwiselvr2008 · 12-08-2002, 09:37 PM

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However, I think I have enfluenced many people in my class, and they know I am THE tolkienist in my class, so ocassionally people will mention that they watched LOTR, or ask me about Tengwar, and they know I am knowledged in it and would like to converse about it.

Yup, people will personly mention it around me. "I saw The Fellowship of the Ring yesturday, Jennifer" if they arn't scared that I'll get into a long conversation. To get me mad some people purposly say things like "Isn't LOTR stupid?" to ther friend when I am standing right there beside them. Some people make me so mad!

12-02-2002, 05:29 AM	#1
The Ringbearer Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Crickhollow in the summer, and Rivendell in the winter Posts: 397	Converts to LotR!!! I've made 2 converts to LotR in the last few months! And one of them didn't even LIKE LotR before she began reading the books and watching the movies! Has anyone else had similar experiences? __________________ 'Go away, and never come back!!' '......what?' 'But you're a part of this world! Aren't you?' Frodo lives!

12-02-2002, 04:47 PM	#2
Goldberry1 Elven Warrior Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: DC or Delaware, depending on the time of year Posts: 244	My cousin said that the movie was so stupid, so naturally I tried to get her to watch FOTR while we were on vacation, and she did watch parts of it. Then when we went home and she actually went out and rented it!! She's trying to start the books but hasn't had much time because of school. She really likes it now though. __________________ Oh, your collegiate grief has left you dowdy in sweatshirts, absolute horror!

12-02-2002, 07:29 PM	#4
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	I've heard you can order the whole series on Amazon.com for a good price. Still pretty pricey, though. __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

12-03-2002, 12:16 AM	#6
*Khamûl* Slacker Warrior Admin Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alabama Posts: 2,759	Well, I tried to get my mother to read The Hobbit. This was after I dragged her to the theater to see FotR. She didn't even get to the part with Bilbo and the Trolls. She says that there were too many dwarves and people to keep up with. At least I tried. __________________ "If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you." Gandalf to Pippin Psalm 107:31

12-03-2002, 11:34 AM	#8
Agburanar Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Dorset Posts: 608	My sister watched the movie and thought it was brilliant . Then I leant her the books and now she is totally anti-movie and pro-book. Hooray! __________________ I would wish, were it to any avail, that the LORD OF THE RINGS FILMS had never been wrought. ROLLING STOCK, WE'RE ROLLING STOCK!!

12-02-2002, 07:22 PM	#3
Sminty_Smeagol Manic Cardboard-Box Dweller Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: In a house Posts: 1,071	I have gotten 2 friends in to the movies/books. And one in to Tengwar. Those I can safely say are MY converts. However, I think I have enfluenced many people in my class, and they know I am THE tolkienist in my class, so ocassionally people will mention that they watched LOTR, or ask me about Tengwar, and they know I am knowledged in it and would like to converse about it. But then I have a friend who has been reading LOTR every year for like, 3 years, and I was very complimented when he assumed I was very tolkien-wise, and was surprised that I have only been reading it one year. I really am not knowledged LOTR -I have only read it once, and that was a year ago, and I have a hard time remembering characters outside the Fellowship- but I have read the Silm, parts of HomE and Unfinished Tales. And of course I was EXTREMELY complimented when he assumed I knew more than him about ME. Anyone know how to get a hand on HoME? The whole series?

12-03-2002, 10:26 AM	#7
Inderjit Sanghera Elven Warrior Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Wolverhampton, England. Posts: 260	Thoguh I try to encourage people to read them, I don't pursue it very far. If they don't like LOTr, then they don't like whether they think it is stupid or for losers. It's their decision. I have got a few friends who have a little intrest in M-E, but they aren't really intrested in it.

12-03-2002, 12:08 PM	#9
*Sister Golden Hair* Queen of Nargothrond Administrator Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Akron, Ohio - USA Posts: 7,121	Moving to Lord of the Rings book forum. __________________ "Whither go you?" she said. "North away." he said: "to the swords, and the siege, and the walls of defence - that yet for a while in Beleriand rivers may run clean, leaves spring, and birds build their nests, ere Night comes." AboutNewJersey.com - New Jersey Travel and Tourism Guide

12-03-2002, 11:03 PM	#10
Khadrane Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Middle Earth (I wish) Posts: 670	A friend of mine read The Hobbit in fifth grade because I convinced her to and never told me she hated it until about a year ago. But when the LotR movie came out, she read it again and loved it, and then she read LotR, and now Tolkien is her favorite author. (At least, he was a few months ago) I'm happy! __________________ Few know whither their road will take them till they come to its end. -Legolas FRODO LIVES! ABORTION IS HOMICIDE

12-04-2002, 11:36 AM	#12
WallRocker Elven Warrior Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: At the computer... Posts: 376	My Mom was the first one to get me to read the Hobbit as well. Then I picked up LOTR when the movie came out(fortunately, before I saw the movie). After my Mom saw the movie, she admitted to me that she had never read the books! So she is now starting FOTR. It'll take her awhile to get throught it, but I'm making sure it happens

12-04-2002, 10:59 PM	#13
Elven Princess Arwen Sapling Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Rivendell Posts: 12	I'm in the process of trying to convert my friend but she refuses. She doesn't like LOTR, she doesn't like Harry Potter (thank god or she'd drive me insane) but i'll convert her yet! “All things are connected like the blood which unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.” -Chief Seattle “How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own?” -Schopenhauer ~Arwen~

12-05-2002, 11:16 PM	#14
Renille Elven Lady of Speed-posting Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the cheese state Posts: 988	I made my whole family into LOtR converts!! My mom is reading the book aloud to my smaller siblings, while my 14 year old brother is currently on "The Return of the King." Isn't it wonderful...but I think everyone in the world should read JRRT's series at least ONCE. That would be ideal. I think everyone should start buying cheap copies of FoTR and leave them on airport seats, restaurants, places like that...with bookplates telling the finder to keep the book, read it, and put it somewhere else. Haha. Nice idea, few funds. __________________ Oh the thinks you can think! Think and wonder and dream...far and wide as you dare! When your thinks have run dry, in the blink of an eye, there's another world there... (from Seussical the Musical. Listen to it...watch it...really.)

12-06-2002, 10:06 AM	#15
Agburanar Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Dorset Posts: 608	You talk of LotR like it's a religion..... instead of a whole lifestyle! __________________ I would wish, were it to any avail, that the LORD OF THE RINGS FILMS had never been wrought. ROLLING STOCK, WE'RE ROLLING STOCK!!

12-06-2002, 02:56 PM	#16
Elfhelm Marshal of the Eastmark Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 1,412	I read The Hobbit to my daughters. The rest they did on their own. They are both fanatical JRRT fans. __________________ cya

12-07-2002, 02:09 PM	#17
TolkienGurl Hobbit Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: in the toaster Posts: 17	My two little boy cousins (6 and 10 years old) are my new converts to The Lord of the Rings. First they watched the Fellowship with me, and then the extended DVD, and now they want me to read them the Hobbit! Oh, and their Christmas list consists of ALL the LotR action figures! Every time I see them they ask me a TON of really intelligent questions. I'm so happy they like LotR! I'm a cool cousin.

12-08-2002, 11:01 AM	#19
Falagar Death of Mooters and [Entmoot] Internal Affairs Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Oslo, Norway Posts: 2,870	I have tried to convert two of my friends to LotR. One of them have almost finished it, he loves the movie (but mostly because of the sword-fighting), and the other one got to Caradhras, before he stopped reading it So now most people in my class thinks the guy who loves sword-fighting (and haven't finished RotK yet) is the Tolkienist... Well well, let them live their lives in unconciusness! __________________ Fëanor - Innocence incarnated Still, Aikanáro 'till the Last battle. Last edited by Falagar : 12-14-2002 at 06:51 PM.

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