Somebody encourage me....

LiC, how do you like the books right now? Getting more interessting?

Like? I wouldn't say that.... I'm on Chapter six The Old Forest in the first book, The Fellowship of the Ring. I've gotten through The Hobbit, though.

i liked the hobbit.....when i read it i didn't know there was even a continuence!(sp) arwen

Ahh, you`re in the early part of the jorney then. Should be just about to Bombadil`s soon. You`re getting into the good stuff now. So you didn`t really say if you liked it or what. By the sound of your posts, you`re not really into it yet. Keep reading! It gets more and more exciting as you move on. It`s easy to get a bit lost on the first read. There`s so much to take in. Don`t try to overanalyse. Just enjoy the read. It`s a most fascinating journey!

LiC, I almost gave up the book at that point. Keep going, it'll be worth it.

Definitely keep on the journey! It is so worth it! If you get too bogged down or fall into despair, just invoke the words "A Elbereth Githoniel!" Help will be on the way! :-)

Okay, I got through chapter 6...I'll post about it later.

Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow; Bright <font color=blue>blue</font color> his jacket is, and his boots are <font color=yellow>yellow</font color>.

Just wait for BOLT... (force-reading BOLT may be worse than boot camp...)

LOL. LiC, keep pushing through! This is when it really gets good (although by the time you're reading ROTK everything else stinks in comparison.)

LiC, I agree with those who have posted so far. I am a big (actually little--I am a hobbit in middle earth) fan of this trilogy, and read and discuss it with my (Earth) brothers. It's just so HUGE! Sometimes you feel overwhelmed by all this Numenor stuff and the power of great people like Gandalf, Galadriel, etc. But throughout LotR, the story is almost always told from the point of view of the least enlightened person--have you noticed that yet? Usually a hobbit, sometimes Gimli. You said, "lack of romance". You must be a female like me, because I can't completely enjoy a story that has no romance. But LotR does! At least three romances (one is my (middle earth) parents), and they're not bad. . I most enjoy the character development in this trilogy (that's one reason I never got into the Silmarillion--the characters didn't seem real). Sam especially grows and changes, and all the others learn and improve themselves. Eowyn, Gimli/Legolas, Treebeard, Faramir, Denethor . . . How can you miss out on meeting these people? . Definitely lose any impression you got from those cheesy movies. Use your own imagination, and don't accept anyone else's images that don't agree with your own. My (earth) brother and I have ongoing disagreements about appearances and pronunciation, and we always have to back off and let the other one keep their ideas, even if they're wrong (!). . Good luck in your journey, Elanor Fairbairn of Westmarch

What Elanor said. Where are you now?

I'm still were I left off. I haven't had a lot of time to read, and with my mom bringing home a new baby soon, I probably won't have much time later. I'll try to get through another chapter, if for no other reason than to say that it is preferable to C.S. Lewis's "Out of the Silent Planet".

Just wait, LostinCoruscant! There will come a day when you, too, will look back with fondness on the work of the 'greats'. (Once you realize how much **** is out there.)

What Hernalt said.

I don't know what is going on, but I going to say Tater is wrong.

Can't you feel the love in this room?

Well, I have yet to finish HOME. I want to read Azimov's Foundation series the whole way through, plus Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time. If you ever read HOME or BOLT, don't read the footnotes - they will slay your momentum.

You haven`t finished the series? I`m shocked! I figured if anyone would get through it, it would be you! :-)

Ack! I'm closer to finishing "Out..." but I'm still at the beginning of 7 in Lord of the Rings...*blushes*