USSRGirl wrote: The Hobbit... I've tried so hard to read it and got all the way to the part with the forest elves before giving up. It is SO stupid and childish!
Utterly pointless... the characters are so different from the serious peoples of Middle Earth. I don't know who he's writing for because it's way to flourishy, old English epic style high vocabulary and lengthy descriptions for a kid to read, yet far too stupid of a silly lephrauchan story for anyone over the age of four.
I know there some who will disagree and trust me I've heard all the arguments before.
The Silmarilian is extremely cliche and sickening.
Roverandrom I just picked up to today and put it down after the first two pages. That thing has no business being in the adult section of the library. [/QUTOE]
Haven't read it yet, but at the library I work at, it's in the children's section.Smith of Wooten Major I actually read all the way through wincing in pain with each cliche, cutesy sentence.
Haven't read it.The only other Tolkien book I absolutely adore is Farmer Giles of Ham. It was well written and witty on a more mature level. Chrysofylax (I know I probably spelled it wrong) Dives is so cute.
Have I read it? I can't remember.But HOW, HOW can the man who wrote such a long, deep, bloody warlike epic stoop to writing such utter trash?!!!!!!! I just don't get it.
USSRGirl wrote:It is SO stupid and childish! Utterly pointless... the characters are so different from the serious peoples of Middle Earth. I don't know who he's writing for because it's way to flourishy, old English epic style high vocabulary and lengthy descriptions for a kid to read, yet far too stupid of a silly lephrauchan story for anyone over the age of four.
Animus Seed, on The Hobbit wrote:It was a children's book.
USSRGirl wrote:O.o Zarn is entering the mudslinging realm (as usual).
agentsmith700 wrote:One thing to keep in mind is that he was not a novolist he was a profesor of Anglo-Saxon and a lingwist that loved hystory and felt the erge to create a hystory for the varous forms of elvish that he had created.
USSRGirl wrote:BILLIONS OF BLISTERING BLUE BARNACLES AND A THUNDERING TYPHOON!!! >.< I never said LOTR was dry!!! :: Throws an orc skull at Warrior4Christ ::
mitsuki lover wrote:In fact Tolkien being a philogist and expert in Anglo-Saxon probably explains why so much of his writing bogs down in overly florid description.
Radical Dreamer wrote:I mean, just thinking of all the languages he created puts George Lucas to shame.
USSRGirl wrote:Apparently, Mr. Mole (I think he said it was the mole...) is identical to Bilbo Baggins.
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