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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
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It is all to do with interpretation, and I do not see what I suggested as either of those two things.
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I disagree that Tolkien was pushed to do anything. But, to work with your argument, he *could* have done anything, I suppose. But the point is, he didn't.
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Going by what i recall, he was pushed by his publisher etc to make the Hobbit more suitable for children. He had a bit more leeway with LOTR, but even then he was pushed, as he wanted to spend more time on the Silmarillion etc .... his real life's work ... not something he whipped up to please the publisher etc.
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The answer there is easy. I'm not a huge fantasy fan and I'm not a fan of series. At the age I read The Hobbit, I'm sure I could have easily read The Lord of the Rings. I just didn't feel the need to.
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Fair enough, but I guess ultimately we will never know. The Hobbit of course, being a smaller part of a much bigger story, so not a series really.
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I just don't understand why you feel that The Lord of the Rings needs to be dumbed down. If someone doesn't like it as is, that's okay. Not everything has to appeal to everybody.
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Who said anything about dumbing down? Dumbing down or moronic are your words and interpretation, not mine.
In short, and I hope this answers DiapDealer as well.
It is not changing the story, but just removing or lessening the descriptive sections. Many consider those as fluff, even those who read or speed read the LOTR. Many skipped through them, even on subsequent reads or especially on subsequent reads. For me, they add another dimension, but they are not integral or essential to the story. One cannot ignore, that they slow the story down, making it boring in those moments for many. See further to this, in my expanded answer to DiapDealer.
I say that as someone who loved the original
The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson, a notoriously difficult book for many to read .... hence the friendlier version that was later released. I loved the archaic language, all the thees and thous etc.
There are many ways to enjoy something, so why try to limit that.