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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
That could be the worst advice she's gotten yet. I can't think of one movie where that makes sense.
TM
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I finished reading
Fellowship of the Ring for the first time about an hour before the movie came out. I started it a year previously with the intent on finishing the series before the movies came out, but Tolkien's dense prose was just really hard for me to get through.
I finished the
The Two Towers about a week later and
Return of the King about a week after that. I think that seeing the first movie helped give me context for what Tolkien was talking about that helped me considerably in reading the second two books.
The problem with Tolkien is that he's
so descriptive, it took me awhile to realize that paragraphs that were longer than a page generally could be skimmed, but sometimes the songs needed more special attention.
