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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I thought the heavily edited and simplified version of Lord of the Rings was called The Hobbit 
Otherwise, an LOTR: Moron Edition seems like a terrible idea. |
Well, seeing as you liked The Hobbit, but not LOTR, you may even like a similarly pared back version.
No doubt Tolkien self edited The Hobbit or was pushed to, to suit younger readers. He could have just as easily been motivated to do that with LOTR. It is not a stretch at all for another to give it The Hobbit treatment.
I'm not entirely sure why you could like The Hobbit and not The Lord Of The Rings, except for the usual reasons of the two main differences .... devised to be more accessible to younger readers and much less descriptive matter. Both of those, give it a different pacing to the LOTR.