How long did it take you to read LOTR?

[Darth ATAT]

Just wondering, considering that over this summer I am planning to attempt reading it once again. I've only ever got halfway through, mainly because I decided to have a good go at it and then a new SW book came out...

[emilsson]

I usually take one book at the time. I think I needed one week for each book. The last time I read LOTR I think it took one or two months because I had a hard time in school at that time.

[Fat middle]

i cannot read those books in a week. i tend to read them more slowly than other books because i want to enjoy every detail. last time the whole LOTR took me over one month and a half.

[bmilder]

The first time, it didn't take too long at all. I would stay up all night reading. I don't recall exactly how long it took, but it was less than a month. Now when I re-read it it can take a month or two because I don't constantly read.

[Arathorn II]

The firs time I read LoTR it took me about 1 1/2 day, I could not stop reading it until I was finished. :) After that I have usualy used one week or more on each book.

[Shanamir Duntak]

The first time it took me less than two weeks.

But now it's about the same time as everyone... a month... month and half
But I think it takes me longer and longer each new time as I enjoy more details each time.

[Darth Tater]

After those little kiddy learn to read books the Hobbit and LOTR were the first real books I ever read, so LOTR took me like 6 months for the first reading. Now I try to go slowly, so about 2.

[Bullroarer]

about 2 1/2 Years! the very first time. I read the hobbit when I was Kept on wondering where I could find the Lord of the Rings. Then one day I was downstairs and saw 3 books stacked. The first two author's name ended with "kien" and the last "poon" they turned out to be the FOTR, the TT, and BOTR, but not ROTK. When I was reading LOTR I read it slowly, wanting to catch every detail. Then when I got to the White Rider, right before the Gandalf part, I thought it was getting BORING. NEVER DID I EVER MAKE A GREATER MISTAKE!!!!I negleted the LOTR for Almost 1 1/2 years! then while tearing through the closet, I found it right where I left off, and Finished the TT. But nowI was on a quest to find the ROTK. And a 1/2 year I decided to go to Elmira with little happiness in going and I stopped by the newly created Barnes and Nobles or whatever it was that had just been build there. They had an entire case of Tolkien's work. I got the ROTK and Read it.



Oh yeah, I never go to far in BOTR, because My brother found it and read the first page and told on me. PHOOEY! :C

[dunedain lady]

My family read LOTR out loud, so it took us 3 months (1 summer). The next time I read it, I kept accidentally rereading pieces of it and losing the book because it took me a good 3 months to get it into my thick head that we actually own 2 copies of T2T!

[Grand Admiral Reese]

Well, I'm not done yet, but since I started on Monday, I'm already done with The Fellowship of the Ring and am 80 pages into The Two Towers. If I get offline now and go back to reading, I could have it done by Saturday. I'd be done with LotR by Tuesday or Wednesday at the latest.

[captain Tarpols]

well, I'm not done with LOTR yet. so far, it took me about a month to read the hobbit because i took week long brakes. It took me about 3 weeks to read the fellowship. (finished it testerday) And now i am reading the two towers.

[noldo]

It took me about 4 weeks to read LotR. The reading of course, was very scattered and I did most of the reading in the last two weeks. Last I read the Hobbit in a week and now am reading The Unfinished Stories of Numenor and Middle-Earth. At the same time I'm already re-reading LotR and intent to start on the English version very soon. :)

[Marsufo]

I'm not too sure, but I think it took me about 4 months to read FotR (I had a lot of homework and had to read other things for school), but I read TT in about 2.5 weeks (in the summer) and also 2.5 weeks (in the summer)for RotK. I've only read them once.

:)
Marsufo

[Rambunctious Ugnaught]

It took me about a month, but I was only reading about an hour a day because when I read more it seems boring:(

[arynetrek]

the first time, about 2 weeks. i couldn't stand putting it down, but i made the mistake of trying to read while visiting some VERY illiterate relatives who couldn't understand the need to be left alone with a book. the second time, about a month, b/c i had school & was writing a report on it. #3 - about a month & a half. a lot of people i've talked to have said that it takes them longer every time they read, to pick up miniscule details, etc. and as of today i've been reading Sil for 3 weeks, but i had to take a week-&-a-half-long hiatus because of various complications of life (like trying to find a job...)

note to self - get offline... read...

aryne *

[Earendil]

first time around when i was in High School, the summer

Second time around, years later (this summer), 1 week

Earendil

[Rambunctious Ugnaught]

I bet if I wanted to know I could read them in a week.

[Grand Admiral Reese]

As of today, I'm finished with LotR. That makes it what, a week and a half of reading, including The Hobbit?

[Fat middle]

that deserves a great "congradulations" :)

when are you going to begin your second reading ;)

[Darth ATAT]

Well, I've spent two holiday weeks and I'm now well into Return of the King, at the end of The Siege of Gondor. It has got a bit boring lately, particularly with the Passes of the Dead bit which I find difficult to understand (I can't even find the friggin mountain on the map!) but I can tell it will get good again soon.

[Legolas]

Well, it took me quite a while.

A number of years ago, when I was around ten, I read both the Hobbit and the Fellowship of the Ring, then stopped reading the series. Then, just last year, I restarted the series. I read the Hobbit in a day (almost, actually- I have a very old copy, and the last five pages or so were missing. But I could have read it in a day). It took me two or three months after that to read the trilogy.


Legolas

[Gilthalion]

Reading aloud, THE HOBBIT takes 9 hours, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, about 46-47 hours. When reading silently, and slowly enough to savor the story, I finish in about half the time. This is naturally spread out over several sessions. About two weeks for the series, including THE SILMARILLION. And that's if I do little else other than work and chores.

NO TV!

[Grand Admiral Reese]

Fat middle, I don't know when I'll read it again. I have many other books to read right now before I'll be re-reading anything. But I definatly will read it again.

[Avis Took]

my record is 2 weeks

[Avis Took]

ok im trying to test my sig here

[Xivigg]

around 3h/book make that 6 book and we have 24h so a day

of course it's only reading all day long (in class to) without sleep and stopping only for lunch

i don't think i'll be able to do it again

[Shanamir Duntak]

You didn't really do that?!?!?
But, knowing you, you surely might have...

[quam]

I also did it in a day :
I started around 7 a.m. on a vacation,with the hobbit,then LOTR.I finished some 15 hours later,around 10p.m.
I did however read while eating,and didn't do anything else.

[Nerdel]

Three hot (burning, actually) July days and nights. I simply couldn't stop (and the book is too short, of course). The next readings go as far as one month, but it's only because I want to delay the process and enjoy LOTR as much as I can. I' m currently reading the Silmarillion. It's been a month since I 've started and I am standing against Morgoth as Fingolfin right now. The reading in this case is completely different. In my opinion, it's difficult to read the Silmarillion in less than a week and fully understand what's going on (storyline, sequence of events and emphasis in the details)

[Xivigg]

It took me 3 day to reed the Silmarilion

and i think i understand prety much all
of course i reed it 2 or 3 time after the first time and i alway's find mew thing in it

[Nerdel]

...that's why I wrote "difficult", not "impossible". You 've got a point there about the "difference" between each Silmarillion reading. This difference is not so obvious in the LOTR. I think it has to do with the fact that LOTR is the story of one specific event, and not of an entire Age like the Silmarillion.

[Elanor]

I read them in about 5 days, from the Hobbit to the Return of the King. since then I haven't really read them straight through all at once...it's time to do that again!

[Darth ATAT]

Well...as you can see from the dating on this topic, I started LOTR early August. I finished it approximately five minutes ago. :) So about two months for me, but that is with the distraction of stopping to read Vector Prime and then reading Onslaught alongside ROTK.

[Shanamir Duntak]

I bought the bouok a month ago, and Frodo and co. are still a t Bree... :p I take my time to read and enjoy it!

[Fat middle]

in English this time, Shan?

[SarahStar]

When you think about it, LotR really isn't all that long. It's only three books---four, counting The Hobbit. It just seems long compared to reading only one book.

These days, it's not at all unusual for a fantasy series to consist of three or more books that are each longer than any of the installments of LotR. David Eddings' Belgariad and Mallorean, complete with the obligatory (and excellent) companion volumes, totals 12 books (not counting The Rivan Codex, which is comparable to HoME). And that's not particularly unusual these days. Many series are longer.

Of course, they do read a lost faster than LotR. I'm the first to admit that Tolkien (with the exception of The Hobbit) is not always easy to read.

[Shanamir Duntak]

No... couldn't get an english version... would have been too co$tly

[Xivigg]

Yeah it's frustrating

but i will get an english version soon :)

[Shanamir Duntak]

Renault-Bray don't accept orders yet. Where will you order it???

[Xivigg]

No need to order i know were to find it :)

[Shanamir Duntak]

where?

[Xivigg]

This is for me to know and you to wonder :p

[Shanamir Duntak]

:(

[WHITEWIZZARD]

IT TOOK ME FIVE DAYS PER BOOK.BUT IT SEEMED TO GO SO QUICKLY BECAUSE I WAS ENJOYING IT SO MUCH!

[anduin]

Hullo WHITEWIZZARD, welcome to Entmoot......please make yourself at home! :)

[donut dunker]

It really did!
I just finished it last week and it was the best read of my life, I was reading it over a period of three month becasue I was very busy with college work to read it that much!
But I managed to complete it at last, although I found the war tales with Aragorn and Lady Eoewn very boring!

[X Rogue]

About 2 months, but it took longer than it should have. I turned each book around and started it over from the beginning again as I finished each one.

[Sauganast]

It takes less and less time to read it every time I do. The first time I read it it took me like a month, but that was in Grade 6, now it takes 3-5 days. But I guess after you read it a lot of times you don't need to read over parts to understand them. I am sure most people feel this way, after a point you almost have it memorized and could speed read it if you really wanted too. Now the Silmarillion, that takes me a long time to read cuz it is really confusing, far too many names and places to memorize and keep track of.

[Landroval 1st]

I am reading it again for the fourth time but,this time I am doing it in "real time". I suspect this will take quite some time.

[Xivigg]

The war of the ring take two years
have a nice reading :)

and welcome here :)

[SahanaElf]

The first time it took me two months. Mind you, I was in year six then. My best time is twelve hours, in the holidays of cource, but that was reading it very quickly and not getting enought details. Now it's more like a day or two. And in those two and a half years I think I've read it about eight or nine times :-p