How long did it take you to read LOTR?

Well, it took me quite a while.

A number of years ago, when I was around ten, I read both the Hobbit and the Fellowship of the Ring, then stopped reading the series. Then, just last year, I restarted the series. I read the Hobbit in a day (almost, actually- I have a very old copy, and the last five pages or so were missing. But I could have read it in a day). It took me two or three months after that to read the trilogy.


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Reading aloud, THE HOBBIT takes 9 hours, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, about 46-47 hours. When reading silently, and slowly enough to savor the story, I finish in about half the time. This is naturally spread out over several sessions. About two weeks for the series, including THE SILMARILLION. And that's if I do little else other than work and chores.

NO TV!

Fat middle, I don't know when I'll read it again. I have many other books to read right now before I'll be re-reading anything. But I definatly will read it again.

my record is 2 weeks

ok im trying to test my sig here

around 3h/book make that 6 book and we have 24h so a day

of course it's only reading all day long (in class to) without sleep and stopping only for lunch

i don't think i'll be able to do it again

You didn't really do that?!?!?
But, knowing you, you surely might have...

I also did it in a day :
I started around 7 a.m. on a vacation,with the hobbit,then LOTR.I finished some 15 hours later,around 10p.m.
I did however read while eating,and didn't do anything else.

Three hot (burning, actually) July days and nights. I simply couldn't stop (and the book is too short, of course). The next readings go as far as one month, but it's only because I want to delay the process and enjoy LOTR as much as I can. I' m currently reading the Silmarillion. It's been a month since I 've started and I am standing against Morgoth as Fingolfin right now. The reading in this case is completely different. In my opinion, it's difficult to read the Silmarillion in less than a week and fully understand what's going on (storyline, sequence of events and emphasis in the details)

It took me 3 day to reed the Silmarilion

and i think i understand prety much all
of course i reed it 2 or 3 time after the first time and i alway's find mew thing in it

...that's why I wrote "difficult", not "impossible". You 've got a point there about the "difference" between each Silmarillion reading. This difference is not so obvious in the LOTR. I think it has to do with the fact that LOTR is the story of one specific event, and not of an entire Age like the Silmarillion.

I read them in about 5 days, from the Hobbit to the Return of the King. since then I haven't really read them straight through all at once...it's time to do that again!

Well...as you can see from the dating on this topic, I started LOTR early August. I finished it approximately five minutes ago. So about two months for me, but that is with the distraction of stopping to read Vector Prime and then reading Onslaught alongside ROTK.

I bought the bouok a month ago, and Frodo and co. are still a t Bree... I take my time to read and enjoy it!

in English this time, Shan?

When you think about it, LotR really isn't all that long. It's only three books---four, counting The Hobbit. It just seems long compared to reading only one book.

These days, it's not at all unusual for a fantasy series to consist of three or more books that are each longer than any of the installments of LotR. David Eddings' Belgariad and Mallorean, complete with the obligatory (and excellent) companion volumes, totals 12 books (not counting The Rivan Codex, which is comparable to HoME). And that's not particularly unusual these days. Many series are longer.

Of course, they do read a lost faster than LotR. I'm the first to admit that Tolkien (with the exception of The Hobbit) is not always easy to read.

No... couldn't get an english version... would have been too co$tly

Yeah it's frustrating

but i will get an english version soon

Renault-Bray don't accept orders yet. Where will you order it???

No need to order i know were to find it