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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
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.
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So, in no case did you see any of the movies before you read the respective books.
Even still, I disagree with you (not your experience, of course). It makes no sense to me to watch any movie before you've read the book. Why picture the movie and characters using someone else's imagination? All you're doing is replaying the movie in your mind.
And I didn't think the Lord of the Rings was all that dense. Ulysses is dense (and long). The Lord of the Rings is just long.
TM
