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<blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 3481951" data-attributes="member: 467">I have read LotR twice.&nbsp; Once when I was 17 or 18 (a senior in HS) and once in 2001 (I took it on my honeymoon because my wife wanted a beach vacation in Dominican, which means you can a) drink, b) read and/or c) check out topless Europeans.&nbsp; I did D).&nbsp; I was bowled over by it at 17, but more recently I was impressed with its literary quality.&nbsp; I have been meaning to read it again, but haven't had the chance/motivation -- I want to see if I can find the balane between the two.But what prompted this thread -- other than nostalgia <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> -- was the fact that once the word came out, I felt this pit in my stomach.&nbsp; Even more than Dragon or Dungeon, which i read on occassion, I felt really wierd about DL getting &quot;the shaft&quot; (note: I realize we have no idea if that is true, and it probably isn't, because it is a cash cow for WotC) and realized how much I loved DL and identified it with my love of fantasy and D&amp;D.&nbsp; That's what I mean by &quot;our LotR&quot;.Tangent: my &quot;annual read&quot; is Alan Moore's Watchment.&nbsp; Not only do I love that book, not only do I appreciate it from a literary perspective, but I find something new in it every time I read it, even though I have read it at least a dozen times.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Reynard, post: 3481951, member: 467"] I have read LotR twice. Once when I was 17 or 18 (a senior in HS) and once in 2001 (I took it on my honeymoon because my wife wanted a beach vacation in Dominican, which means you can a) drink, b) read and/or c) check out topless Europeans. I did D). I was bowled over by it at 17, but more recently I was impressed with its literary quality. I have been meaning to read it again, but haven't had the chance/motivation -- I want to see if I can find the balane between the two. But what prompted this thread -- other than nostalgia ;) -- was the fact that once the word came out, I felt this pit in my stomach. Even more than Dragon or Dungeon, which i read on occassion, I felt really wierd about DL getting "the shaft" (note: I realize we have no idea if that is true, and it probably isn't, because it is a cash cow for WotC) and realized how much I loved DL and identified it with my love of fantasy and D&D. That's what I mean by "our LotR". Tangent: my "annual read" is Alan Moore's [i]Watchment[/i]. Not only do I love that book, not only do I appreciate it from a literary perspective, but I find something new in it every time I read it, even though I have read it at least a dozen times. [/QUOTE]

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