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From: (Anonymous)

Partner's getting into LOTR. Laughing at what an absolute nerd cliche he is. In the time we've known each other, he's learned to code and got into LOTR, so now he just needs to start marathoning star trek...

Best thing is that alll our mutual friends are with me, ie: we like the lotr films, but we find the books dull, with the exception of The Hobbit, which we all enjoy. I was like 'I can only lend you the first book because that's the only one I have, I never got into it; the hobbit's fun but in lotr tolkein spends forever describing a single tree'. My friends concurred with this opinion. So when my partner finished Fellowship, having enjoyed it, he planned to borrow the other books from one of *his* friends, an astrophysicist whom he assumed would be into it because he was a nerd. So he asked the astrophysicist, who replied that actually he'd never got into LOTR because Tolkein would just spend forever describing a single tree ("the hobbit's good, though!"). Partner came back from his friend's house empty-handed; I found it the funniest thing in the world.

From: (Anonymous)

I actually preferred the appendices to the main story in LOTR. And I enjoyed it up until the Fellowship actually formed. Tom Bombadil and all the Shire stuff, and basically All Hobbits All The Time was great. Elves noticing that they have been walking for a really long time and not getting anywhere was not my jam.

Then I became an adult, met other adults who had read and enjoyed the books, and learned that I was wrong.

From: (Anonymous)

As someone who loves fantasy but had to force herself through LotR, that's hilarious.

He can't stop himself describing trees, but he can't even come up with a variety of ways to describe them. There are good forests (dappled sunlight) and bad forests (ominous feeling, creaking branches). It's such a waste of time.

From: (Anonymous)

I really like LotR though, the more I age. I really enjoyed the prose *but* I had to get into it via the Hobbit, the first time around, LotR was too dense for me.

So I sympathise but am also giving my dogeared copy of LotR more love :P

Funny about liking the films though: I recall the film adaptation was really controversial, and can see why, e.g. wrt Faramir.