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I fully support skimming parts of a book that drag and going back to reference them later. It's better to finish a book than to abandon it because you got stuck somewhere. And sometimes things make more sense once you come back to them.

www.youtube.com/@lotrfan2023 I think Tolkien's work is hard to comprehend without a lot of illustrations and maps for the reader's orientation. And the Peter Jackson films left out some of the best parts of the story and fudged quite a bit more that it adds to the story confusion rather than alleviates it. I've been illustrating the unabridged version of the Lord of the Rings with my channel, LOTR fan, up to page 274 now, a bit of competition for the Peter Jackson films if you want to see what the original story might have looked like on the screen.

Awww yea, Lotr best read!

the audio isnt bad bad but dont worry, this is hard work, its inspiring to watch a small channel and a real girl that isnt doing some OF, but actually being real and just reading, and expressing your interests in the books you read for hobby time, truly amazing and you should have millions of view, God bless you <3 hope your channel blows up and dont forget how awesome you are.. I have not watched all your videos but when I have time I listen so Ill know if recognize any. I would love more Lord of the rings and Hobbit story time, lots of nerds will click on that ! anyway keep up the good work and dont give up ^-^

well LotR was at the start 'just' the sequel to the Hobbit, that Tolkien started because his publisher requested it. There is a book that Tolkiens son Christopher published (part of the 'history of Middle earth' a 12 book series about the creation of Tolkiens world), that really show Tolkiens writing process for this book and it gets clear that he at first has no big plans. He always starts with the birthday party (there are 5 or 6 versions of that first chapter) but then he goes into different directions. Frodo is for a long time called Bingo and it is unclear how he is related to Bilbo. What survives to the published version of LotR is that it starts out more lighthearted and gets more serious once Aragorn gets introduced. For a while in Tolkiens writing process they didn't meet Strider but Trotter, a hobbit with wooden shoes in Bree who was also living as a ranger and an outcast but there was no talk yet about the Dunedain. The evil was the Necromancer, who was not Sauron at that point. And the Ring was at first just a magic ring, then it was a very powerful magic ring but not unique and finally it became the one ring that the Necromancer needed. So you can kind of see how the story could have gone if he kept it in a hobbit like style. What remains is the first part of LotR with stuff like the fox wondering about the hobbits from the foxes POV, stuff that just wouldn't happen in the later books. So yes it makes sense to read the Hobbit first but only the first part is Hobbit like because of Tolkiens development connecting this new book to the Silmarilion lore he created which it wasn't at first.

That was really nice. Thanks. There are lots of good reference materials for studying "The Lord of the Rings". For example, I assume you've seen the behind-the-scenes documentaries of the Peter Jackson movies as they have several parts about adapting the book for the movies. But, you might also be interested in viewing the following book-club live-stream sessions. The host of the stream, like you, had seen the movies and had decided to read the books for the first time - not a literary analysis, just a film fan who wanted to read the books. And she has cats. It was a book-club, so the viewers were meant to read the given chapters and join her for the live-stream where she talked about her thoughts on that section and reacting to live comments from the community. [Disclaimer: I was one of the people on the chat.] She has stopped (or at least paused) doing them due to lack of time but she got half-way through "The Two Towers" so there's enough there to get some value. Anyway, if you're interested it is in the "Live" tab section of the @LIPPSMACKER CZcams channel. You should be able to replay the live-stream comments along-side the video to see what people where chatting about. Here is the link to the first stream. czcams.com/video/bl7xPcAABhk/video.html

Great to see that over and over pops up new review of Lord of the Rings and no matter how many people “cry” about being hard to read, new readers join. 👏 Not many things in fantasy lives up to Tolkien’s world… prob the only other fantasy story is Malazan, the Book of the Fallen is not an easy read but today it keeps the top epic fantasy place in everyone tier list who read it. Yep, we even replaced Lord of the Rings too. So if you are up to the next challenge? 😂

You should definitely make sure Rock Paper Scissors makes it onto your TBR soon, it was so good!!

keep up the good work :3

Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read Isaiah 34:16

I really liked Shatter Me!

Both The Wishing Game and The Fellowship of the Ring are fantastic and I think you will/hope you have had a great time reading them. :)

Hi, I just subscribed to your channel. I love TBR Jar videos! I loved The Housemaid. I love Freida McFadden. I think you will love Emily Henry's books. I haven't read Funny Story yet, but I have read all of her other books. Good Luck with your May reads especially Fellowship of the Ring.

How have we been best friends all our lives and I didn’t know you had authors in your family? Good grief I need to be better 😂

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Okay, I’m gonna need to borrow “When Breath Becomes Air” based on your reaction

Congratulations on your engagement! 🎉

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I just finished this phenomenal new book of fairy tales entitled Sillies, Fancies, and Trifles - it was phenomenal and I think you'd love it. It would go with the lovely recommendations here. Keep up the beautiful videos :)

but uve never read tolkien

“How much longer” “not even close” 😂😂😂😂

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Just subscribed! Great video! I’ve read Six of Crows and Song of Achilles and can definitely say that they live up to the hype! ✨

Just found your account and I think you might've just convinced me to finally post my own book videos and finally read the Iron Flame!

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I so want to read Caraval !!

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