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<blockquote data-quote="Lady Starhawk" data-source="post: 405809" data-attributes="member: 441">I wholehwaeredly agree.&nbsp; I had tried to read the Hobbit many times, and had to give up.&nbsp; I couldn't follow the characters or what was going on or why.Then I saw FOTR and I HAD to know what happens to the charactrers.&nbsp; I bought the Cliff's Notes and that helped a lot, there's information about the world, the cahracters, and the races in addition to a walk through of the HObbit and LOTR.&nbsp; Once I got to TTT I bought the a-z giude to middle earth and that filled in the information the cliff's notes left behind.I sat down with a good idea about each character and the idea behind the story from the movie and kept the cliff's notes by my side.&nbsp; I skipped over most of the songs, and when I would get bogged down in a description I would skip forward.&nbsp; (Having seen the movie, and having the guides, I could eventually get a picture of more or less where they were, or have a good guess).&nbsp; If I ever got confused about who someone was, I would look it up in teh cliff's notes or the giude.&nbsp; I am very proud to say I made it.&nbsp; I finished all 3 in a few weeks and retained more information than I lost.&nbsp; I still know how to pronunce most of the names (the ones not in the movie anyway) but no matter <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I still don't think TOlkien was&nbsp; a very good writer.&nbsp; He was an incredibly intelligent and creative person, but his writings at times seemed more like a textbook than a story.&nbsp; But it's all in what you like.Oh well, I suppose that was a lot of words for a &quot;Me Too&quot; post, but I don't care <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Lady Starhawk</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lady Starhawk, post: 405809, member: 441"] I wholehwaeredly agree. I had tried to read the Hobbit many times, and had to give up. I couldn't follow the characters or what was going on or why. Then I saw FOTR and I HAD to know what happens to the charactrers. I bought the Cliff's Notes and that helped a lot, there's information about the world, the cahracters, and the races in addition to a walk through of the HObbit and LOTR. Once I got to TTT I bought the a-z giude to middle earth and that filled in the information the cliff's notes left behind. I sat down with a good idea about each character and the idea behind the story from the movie and kept the cliff's notes by my side. I skipped over most of the songs, and when I would get bogged down in a description I would skip forward. (Having seen the movie, and having the guides, I could eventually get a picture of more or less where they were, or have a good guess). If I ever got confused about who someone was, I would look it up in teh cliff's notes or the giude. I am very proud to say I made it. I finished all 3 in a few weeks and retained more information than I lost. I still know how to pronunce most of the names (the ones not in the movie anyway) but no matter :) I still don't think TOlkien was a very good writer. He was an incredibly intelligent and creative person, but his writings at times seemed more like a textbook than a story. But it's all in what you like. Oh well, I suppose that was a lot of words for a "Me Too" post, but I don't care :p Lady Starhawk [/QUOTE]

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