Lord of the Rings

[opengoal]

Thought the film has dumbed down the book, but now I'm reading it, I realise that the film hasn't really dumbed it down that much (by Hollywood standard).

Whereas it was a joy to read Harry Potter, it's a pain to read LOTR. Harry Potter is written so "our time" that the pages fly before I notice - & I couldn't put the book down once I started reading it. But LOTR's language is so fairy tale/myth like that I'm saying I'm going to give up every twnety minutes. & because I don't like poetry or rhymes in fiction, I'm practically skip every song or poem that clutters the book. It's all very well trying to create an alternative world, but the songs are distracting and boring.

I'm still stuck in The Fellowship of the Ring. I wonder whether I'll read the next two volumes...

Or maybe I should read some fanfic to make myself interested in LOTR again.

Comments

[ccalgreen.livejournal.com]

Hello again!

I'm coming up to the end of "Fellowship" and I agree it's not as easy to follow for someone of our generation as Harry Potter, which seems to roll off the page and you can't put it down because there's suspense around every corner.

Having said that, I do think the language in LOTR is appropriate for that kind of pure myth and fantasy story, which is probably why I liked it better on film than I did "The Philosopher's Stone"...