Bump In The Night: A Chronicles of Darkness MUX

Actually, she's not. I think she watched like the first half of The Fellowship of the Ring once and fell asleep. And this is a woman who delights in watching Midsummer Murders, so you know it wasn't the pace...

Arkandel · Apr 25, 2016, 1:06 PM

@Coin Nngggghhhh.

tragedyjones · Apr 25, 2016, 3:06 PM

I tried to read LOTR once. I never made it through "Concerning Hobbits".

I did at least see the films.

Arkandel · Apr 25, 2016, 3:17 PM

@tragedyjones My heart can only take so much.

I read the Hobbit when I was in sixth grade and was absolutely blown away, and then the friend who lent me the book told me there was 'more to it' and handed me the Fellowship of the Ring. Holy shit, I spent that entire night reading it, it was the first time I ever lost sleep over a book - and it was so worth it. It single-handedly made a lifetime fantasy fan out of me.

I've read The Return Of The King 20+ times (in fact it's been a while, I should put it on my Kobo).

tragedyjones · Apr 25, 2016, 3:20 PM

@Arkandel Tolkienesque fantasy is generally not my bag. Sorry bro!

Arkandel · Apr 25, 2016, 3:23 PM

@tragedyjones It's okay. Just know you are a bad person making bad decisions and you suck. No hard feelings. NONE.

Ganymede · Apr 25, 2016, 3:41 PM

@Arkandel said in Bump In The Night: A Chronicles of Darkness MUX:

I read the Hobbit when I was in sixth grade and was absolutely blown away, and then the friend who lent me the book told me there was 'more to it' and handed me the Fellowship of the Ring. Holy shit, I spent that entire night reading it, it was the first time I ever lost sleep over a book - and it was so worth it. It single-handedly made a lifetime fantasy fan out of me.

See, I did this when I got my first copy of Guardians of the West, by Eddings. And I read the shit out of his books.

But then, I got older, and realized that Eddings produced an Americanized, tongue-in-cheek version of Tolkien.

However, when I started reading Tolkien, I realized why.

As interesting as some of Tolkien's stuff is, he's the George Lucas of fantasy writing. He should stick to the ideas, and let others -- like Lawrence Kasdan -- do the actual writing.

tragedyjones · Apr 25, 2016, 3:42 PM

Shots fired.

Arkandel · Apr 25, 2016, 3:49 PM

@Ganymede I suppose the reason I like Tolkien's writing - nostalgia aside, which I won't deny is a powerful factor for me - is that he didn't simply write books; he created a mythology, history, several languages, wrote poems, told bedtime stories to his son about the combined world of Middle Earth and then, when all that was done, did he ever even write actual novels. Hell, the number of books he wrote which are not in novel-form far outnumber the rest.

That, and it's impossible for me to distinguish any more if I took an immediate liking to his grandeuse prose style with great attention to detail, straight-forward vocabulary and lyrical descriptions or if reading his work at the age I did shaped my preferences.

I know going through pages of going over the story of Beren and Luthien, complete with lyrics - some of them in Sindarin! - is not for everyone. For some reason. Probably because they are flawed human beings, like @tragedyjones.

Coin · Apr 25, 2016, 4:19 PM

It took me three tries to get through ther first chapter of the Lord of the Rings. I was fine after that and got through the trilogy, but to this day I remember how hard it was to slog through that first chapter.

I like Tolkien, I just think his writing is not a big deal. His world-building is superb.

Ataru · Apr 25, 2016, 4:27 PM

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