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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EricNoah" data-source="post: 1235407" data-attributes="member: 4">Peeps, do I have to remind you folks that opinions aren't right or wrong, they are just what they are?  It's extremely silly to get too worked up over this.  ***Now, I've read the books a number of times, from childhood through adulthood, and I enjoyed them each time.  However, the first couple of times there were sections that I would routinely skip as they did get pretty dense.  The author was shooting for a particular style; he was trying to emulate a sort of anglo-saxon type of style in some of the chapters that chiefly dealt with the world of men.  In later reads, however, I did plow through those sections and found them to be rewarding.  The best thing about the movies, in my opinion, is that they did draw me back to do more thorough reads of the Faramir sections in TTT and RotK, which even as an adult I skipped through rather quickly.  I feel like I know those sections really well now because I read them very carefully to prep myself for TTT last year, to see where the differences would be.  And recently I read Book VI a lot more carefully than I had in the past, to get ready for next month.  The other great thing about the movies, of course, is getting to see Middle Earth and the people and places I'd only read about.  I'm a middle school librarian, and over the past couple of years I have hardly been able to keep our couple-three copies of LotR on the shelves.  The kids are reading it, or at least some are.  And fantasy reading seems more "in" recently, probably also due to Harry Potter and Artemis Fowl and maybe Lemony Snickett as well.  As an aside -- as a result of some standardized testing we do at our school, our students receive a "lexile" score that gives them an idea of what their reading comprehension abilities might be, and at <a href="http://www.lexile.com" target="_blank">www.lexile.com</a> you can look up books and compare scores to see if you're reading something that's higher or lower than your lexile score.  Let's just say I have issues with this. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  In particular, I noted that Harry Potter was ranked as "harder" than FotR.  That's just not right! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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