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This is the Hobbit I had growing up: [link] I liked those covers.
I found these at a library book sale, which is sort of Lord of the Rings as Harlequin romance: [link] I bought them because my fancy boxed all-in-one hardcover, while gorgeous, is rather unwieldy: [link]
Incredibly, I found the Hobbit boxed hardcover in perfect condition at a street stand in NY: [link]
This is the Hobbit I had growing up
Tolkien's own art, I believe.
Yeah, those are the LoTR covers I have, Megan.
I think next year's book challenge may have to involve re-reading. It's been awhile for both books.
I have tried multiple times to read Tolkien, and I just can't get into it. I have a rule that the author gets 50 pages to get it moving. Tolkien has never made that for me.
This is the Hobbit I had growing up: [link]. I liked those covers.
Yep, had those ones, too.
That seems very reasonable Vortex. I'm not a big sci-fi/fantasy fan and only read The Hobbit for school. I didn't pick up The Lord of the Rings until well after college. It's one of the books I regret not discovering when I was younger, but actually, I'm not sure I would have finished it back then.
Tolkien's own art, I believe.
That's the one my brother had, which he let me borrow when I was ready to try a work of that length. Oddly, I remember it being harder than I expected, given that on many a Sunday afternoon the whole family had listened to an audio version (I think read by Tolkien himself).
I have tried multiple times to read Tolkien, and I just can't get into it. I have a rule that the author gets 50 pages to get it moving. Tolkien has never made that for me.
The endless trivial descriptions, perhaps? It's what kills Thomas Hardy for me, but Tolkien's just makes me feel a bit drunk on words.
Tolkien has an odd word-music that is tuned on alliteration and structure -- not surprising when you find out he was a leading world authority on Anglo-Saxon languages and literature. Pretty much considered all those Romance languages Johnny-come-latelies and Shakespeare irretrievably contaminated.
Unfortunately, the first couple chapters of TLotR is in a very twee, juvenile mode a la The Hobbit -- it isn't until just before the Council of Elrond chapter that it snaps into a more adult, serious mode that is what makes the trilogy.
(Why is this all in Boxed Set?)
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