[HPFGU-OTChatter] LOTR

[Tamfiiris]

Amy Z wrote:

> Amber et al, I read LOTR when I was a kid, but went more and more
> slowly until I ground to a halt halfway through Return of the King.

i, too, read it as a kid - i loved hobbits and didn't have any
problems with either 'the hobbit' or Bilbo's birthday party, although
the prologue did grate a little on me - but skipped many of the battle
scenes in the end. they were just too complicated for an 11-year-old,
i guess. plus i really wanted to know what had happened to Frodo!

i only remembered i had done it when i re-read the book some years
later and realised that a lot of material was unfamiliar to me - whee!
first-time reader, if only for one chapter...

from another post:
> Just tell me, did they make the elves wee and adorable, or tall like
> they're supposed to be?

they're human sized, and their ears are slightly leaf-shaped, like
Tolkien said they should be. i'm happy with the look of Legolas, but
Galadriel has a little too much of a Dumbo-look for me.

ciao
Tamf