LOTR

[Rita Winston]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Amber <reanna20 at y...> wrote:

> <sigh> I must admit, the trailers for the first of the "The Lord of
> the Rings" trilogy look fantabulous. They've motivated to try, yet 
> again, to read the books. On at least three separate occassions 
> I've picked up the first book in the trilogy and tried to read it. 
> And have ended stopping because it just didn't interest me. I've 
> always wondered what was *wrong* with me because I am a great lover
> of the fantasy genre. And Tolkien is very much classic fantasy.

My friend Lee has been reading LOTR since she was an undergraduate (I 
guess that means she first read it in 1961?) and is a missionary for 
it. When people tell her that they just couldn't get into it, she 
tells them to skip the first half of volume I (each volume is divided 
into two "Books", so start with Book II of volume I) and go back to 
it later. She said Tolkien liked to start VERY slowly.