Lord of the Rings

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.