Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Actually, I recall a number of people urging me to read The Hobbit. 
> After a chapter or two I was bored stupid. Watching paint dry would have 
> been more fun.
> 
> Oddly, the LotR films are really quite good. I don't know how they 
> managed to get so much excitement out of such a dull series of books...
> 

I feel that the style of The Hobbit is a little different from that of 
the LotR books. I still prefer the LotR even after reading each many 
times...

I actually I had to read The Hobbit at school and I did not like it at 
all (as nearly everything I had to read at school actually ;-) ). Only 
some years later I stumbled by accident on The Two Towers somewhere in 
the basement, and got caught immediately... To the point of digging out 
the other two volumes :-)

I read The Hobbit again later, and even now I enjoy it mostly for the 
connections with the rest of Tolkien's books, not really on its own. So 
don't judge the whole series based on The Hobbit, in my opinion...

-- 
Vincent

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