06-09-2009, 10:40 AM
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the snarky blue one
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Originally Posted by hidari
This is worth posting just to get people angry for no reason. I could go into my own reasons for the BORING parts of LOTR but I will let a few of the links below help people to guide their way out of Middleearth:
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Yes, It will be fun to see Fantasy Freaks have a heart attack at anyone who would actually post an anti-LOTR thread. Fact is, I read the LOTR several times as well as other of Tolkien's works. I think he was a very interesting person. And, I loved to read him in my youth. BUT:
HELLO Character DEVELOPMENT
HELLO PACE
HELLO PEOPLE: THERE ARE OTHER BOOKS THAT HAVE BEEN WRITTEN.
I keep running into LOTR freaks that reming me of Deadheads, Ayn Rand Freaks or Harry Potterheads!!!! ( Still dont get that either. Another thread for that monstrosity!)
 Enjoyed that tirade. Anyways. If anyone does NOT LIKE LOTR please post here. Hey It was a good series. BUT It aint Shakespeare!!!
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Okay, I probably shouldn't even post in this thread because I have no horse in this race anyway. I have no valid opinion one way or the other. I haven't read LOTR and don't intend to. I don't have any reasons why not . . . just have many others things I'd prefer to read instead.
Maybe I'm a bit thick headed or slow, or just plain dumb . . . but I don't understand, if, as you state in your OP that LOTR was boring, lacked character development, was slow-paced, etc.; yet you found it to be a good series; then again that it ain't Shakespeare; then again that other books have been written . . . well, duh.
Nothing is Shakespeare except Shakespeare, and why should every literary work be compared to it as a gauge of how worthy a work is? Apples and Oranges?
You seem a bit conflicted in your opinions and don't know how you yourself feels about this subject since you state all it's shortcomings as reasons it's so bad, yet if you thought it was really THAT BAD . . .
Why woiuld you bother to waste your time reading LOTR SEVERAL TIMES as well as other of Tolkien's works?
Did you think that upon subsequent readings that the pace would pick up? the characters would magically become developed? and it would become a Shakespearean work as opposed to a Tolkien work? and it would also become the only book ever written as opposed to your original take on it all? Why would you bother if it was so bad the first time around?
From your own words in your OP, I would surmise that you may very well BE one of those LOTR freaks to whom you refer. With all the time you've apparently spent reading the series, etc. and now your seeming disdain for it, you seem obsessed with it all. Which ever way you go, seems kind of freakish to me.
But that's just me.
Have to give you credit though. You pretty much admitted in your OP that your intention was to create discord amongst your "audience." Did the result meet with your expectations?
Oh, and desertgrandma . . .
I'm with you, granny.
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