Oh, you’ve “read the books” have you? Call me back when you read them every year. And when you’ve read the Silmarillion and the Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth. And when you browse through the History of Middle-Earth for fun. https://twitter.com/boethiu5/status/1081030906222133248 …
Is now a bad time to confess that I stopped reading after Fellowship because I found the books too insufferably cheerful?
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This is the best time to confess that you are a wrong person who I should block, actually
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That was pretty much my wife’s reaction when I told her that as well. She breathes Tolkien.
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Saw the films first... expected something totally different.
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Insufferably cheerful???
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I hadn’t heard about Tolkien prior to the movies and my only experience was the gritty and downtrodden feel of the movies with heavy battle scenes. Then I grabbed Fellowship and was jarred by the different tone. I wasn’t prepared for the... sheer Britishness? of the books.
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