I am a Lord of the Rings fan. I didn't read it until I was about twelve or thirteen, and I read The Hobbit, after that. I also love Wind in the Willows. I can't really be bothered to explain why, so here is a link to a lengthy article (which actually I haven't quite finished reading!) in the London Review of Books by someone who, I think, feels similarly. Germaine Greer apparently described LOTR as her 'nightmare'. I don't think I'd get along very well with her.
People go on about the elves. The elves are not the point. If you don't understand that, then you won't like the book. #thatisall
‘I am in fact a hobbit,’ Tolkien wrote once,
in all but size. I like gardens, trees and unmechanised farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated), but detest French cooking; I like, and even dare to wear in these dull days, ornamental waistcoats. I am fond of mushrooms (out of a field); have a very simple sense of humour (which even my appreciative critics find tiresome); I go to bed late and get up late (when possible). I do not travel much.'
He sounds like my kind of person.
I liked the Lord of the Rings films by the way, hugely, but I do not like the Hobbit ones, at all.
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