How did any of you read this book?

[dmaul96]

Last year I made an effort to read this book, but it was so boring. I could only get up to page 17, and boredom stop me. Nothing interesting happened. It was just about an idiot adventerous wierdo who brings migits to a little short fat man's house. It goes on and on about how the fat migit hated adventure. I couldn't take it anymore, and I stopped. How did you people read it and actually enjoy it?

[bmilder]

Ah, what American society has come to... ;) Yes, I read it at a young age even.

[Gimli the Dwarf]

Hmmmm, boring you say? I think it sounds like you just have a short attention span, well some people just can't be helped. *shrug*?

[Ryan6233]

greg, or jae, or larry, or whoever you are...you've got to look more into the book...wait a while, fun stuff happens! :) And just wait untill you get to TLOTR...they are longer! And the uneventfulness lasts longer! But really, if you read the whole book you'll discover its really great...well, that is, if you even know *how* to read :) *evillaugh*

[dmaul96]

what can possibly happen? more migits in the tea party? what has american society come to? i dont think hobbit was ever popular

[anduin]

dmaul, if you think about it The Wizard of Oz isn't much different...."There's no place like home"

[Darth Tater]

Must not ban him for no obvious reason other than his stupidity. Must not ban him for no obvious reason other than his stupidity. I'll just have to think of some other reason :)

[Hernalt]

..to demonstrate intellect. After that, he's open season. Meaning, don't ban him..

[ArwenUndomiel02]

I've got a reason. HE INSULTED TOLKIEN!! How's that for a reason?

[Lauren Weasley]

I loved the wizard of Oz, both the movie and the books, there was much more than the no place like home junk, eventually Dorothy moves to Oz! The Hobbit is a great book! I read it when I was 11 or something, and again now (I'm 13)

[Elanor]

Oh, I love Oz! Maybe I should make a new forum...

[Samfast]

I read The Hobbit and LOTR in the 60's when I was a teenager and it seemed that everyone was.

[anduin]

Woo-hoo!!! I am no longer the oldest member of Entmoot!!

[Darth Tater]

LOL

[Lauren Weasley]

Ooooo Elanor! Make an Oz forum!! I LOOOVE Oz! Pweeaase!

[Elanor]

um, sure.

[Lauren Weasley]

*blushes* you don't have too, it'd be kewl though stop staring at me! am I that weird? WAIT! don't answer that, I don't think I want to know!

[Darth Tater]

Yeah, Oz is good

[Spock1]

Reading with an open mind and being in a state expecting to be entertained helps. Actually I found it most engrossing from the first page. Possibilities abound!

[Hernalt]

If anyone wants to get deeper into symbolisms there's a Hobbit analysis going on over in the stuffy old Oxford of Grey Havens/BasherBoard.

The Hobbit shares some evident things in common with Star Wars:A New Hope, and with Joseph Campbell's 'Hero's Journey' in general.

[bmilder]

Yay, Jae (dmaul96) is actually reading it again! So is Greg! ;)

[Dfsg]

J.K. Rowling? *sigh* Okay, it gets children to read, but I must say that Tolkien is a bit better.

And NEVER insult the Hobbit. It was a great book by the end, although the Later books in the LOTR were more adventurous!

[jhaddon]

Heh, I first read the Hobbit during 3rd grade, mainly because my dad kept pushing me. It was my longest book to date, and I finished it faster than a lot of other books. I'm no reading LOTR at 13, agian because of my father, and have just gotten to the entmoot (actually, I'm past that, but not by much). I'm much busier now, but I seem to always make room in my schedule for LOTR, and anything else Tolkein. However, I must agree, the beginning of the Hobbit, and LOTR (An unexpected party, a long expected party, I believe those are the names) were a bit boring, but after that, the book just draws you in. And the amount of detail is just astonishing. I wish I could see his desk, to be able to see all the other stuff that was never printed, and probably never will get printed.

However, I'm a little miffed that Tom Bombadil wont be in the movies. He was cool.

Oh, yea, I'm new here. Anyone notice?

[thehobbit96]

Cool. Well, I just finished the Hobbit. When I finish my summer reading, I'm gonna read LOTR.

[Dfsg]

I am so depressed that the left Tom Bombadil out. It just dosen't do LOTR justice.

[jhaddon]

whi is my personal pic fehked up in this forum? Its fine elsewhere.

[Lorco Books]

I actually agree with the original poster of this thread. What's this book about anyway? From what I can tell a rat lives in a stupid hole and he invites fat midgets into his hole, so I guess he shrinks them. Than Merlin (whom I guess just got done giving Arthur Excallibur) orders the rat around to make them birthday cakes, or some stupid **** like that, just before some faerie steals Christmas,......er,...I never actually read the books, I have to go to school and steal some kid's lunch money, why don't you guys get a life and stop reading christmas tales....

[anduin]

I am going to pretend that you are trying to be funny. Otherwise I would have to condone all of the flaming that will no doubt be directed towards you. You tread on very thin ice if you go about knocking Tolkien on a Tolkien board. That is just the way things are. You are entitled to your own opinion of course, but remember you won't make many friends that way.

BTW, the original poster of this thread holds the all time record for bans at Entmoot. :)

[bmilder]

It's obviously a joke.
Anyway I don't think dmaul96 (Jae on this board) holds the records for bans, it's probably Greg by now :p

[emilsson]

I read the Hobbit right before I started the last year in gradeschool. I was fifteen and I loved it. It reminded me of the tales my mom used to read to me before I went to sleep when I was just a few years old.

[Lorco Books]

"I am going to pretend that you are trying to be funny. Otherwise I would have to condone all of the flaming that will no doubt be directed towards you. You tread on very thin ice if you go about knocking Tolkien on a Tolkien board. That is just the way things are. You are entitled to your own opinion of course, but remember you won't make many friends that way."

It was a joke! I was being sarcastic, relax.

[anduin]

My apologies.

[Fat middle]

it happens sometimes. they should make an emoticon for sarcasm ;)

[Grand Admiral Reese]

How did I read it? Well, I picked it up on Friday after finishing The Hunt for Red October, and began reading. I finished yesterday and found it a very interesting novel.

[MyStic PyRO]

Well, im surprised myself that im actually readin a book but i guess i started readin this book out of boredom

[dunedain lady]

:D :mad: :D :mad:
Do. Not. Insult. Tolkien.
How did we read this book? We read this book by having attention spans and imagination! We read this book because we happen to enjoy reading about other worlds, which seem to be much more interresting than our own daily lives in some cases! We read this book because it has a plot, wonderful characters, and the writing is the closest prose gets to poetry!
Ok, I'm done now :rollin:

[Darth Tater]

If that's what you consider a joke then you need to either learn to use smilly's (;) would have been appropriate at the end of that post) or change your sense of humor. Since you don't seem to get that it wasn't funny, but cruel and actually a flame I'm just gonna give you a warning. I'm not alone on this, so dont' think it's another rampage by the mean admin as you like to call me ;)

[bmilder]

Well luckily warnings do nothing. That's insane, of course it's a joke.

Laugh. :lol:

I don't see how you can give a warning to him for doing a joke when Jae here really hasn't finished the Hobbit ever.

[anduin]

I am just curious how you thought it was a joke? Either you know him already and are being sympathetical, or you have a much a very deep sense of humor. I thought that calling hobbits rats, and dwarves fat midgets and telling us to get a life, wasn't very funny. He admits to not reading the book, so how would he really know what is funny and what is not? I gave in because I assumed that you knew him to be a really funny guy.

[bmilder]

No, I don't know this guy outside of Entmoot. But think: you're new to a Tolkien board where you assume everyone loves LotR and the Hobbit, and then some person posts about how awful it is. Instead of flaming, you jokingly play along. Not too farfetched a scenario. Besides, who could be that dumb to write such a review of TH? I think he's also poking fun at Jae. Notice "insert ignorant heading here." That's almost like warning that it's a joke. He was pretending to be an idiot kid who couldn't read well, so notice "I think I'll go steal some kid's lunch money." Stealing of lunch money is generally done by ignorant bullies at school ;) . He wrote that post "in character" if I'm not mistaken. Also notice that he had a fairly difficult trivia thread about LotR up, so it ought to seem highly unlikely that a person who would have that much knowledge about one book of Tolkien would utterly hate and in fact have no idea about the plot of a different Tolkien book. It's true he ought to have included a smiley just in case, but I do think we need to lighten up a bit and not take every little sarcastic bit as a flame :)

[Fat middle]

not only that Trivia Thread... ha has posted very good responses in other threads: he seem very learned in Tolkien lore and i'm sure he'll be a very good member. :)

[arynetrek]

i think everyone who does sarcasm of that kind should remember the proper use of these:

;)
:D
:p
:D
:eek:
:rollin:
:lol:
:evil:

i know i've taken stuff seriously that was meant as a joke, even though it was kind of offensive. just a suggestion...

aryne *

[Darth Tater]

Ben, we'll discuss this later.

[TrunksGT]

Uhhh... The Hobbit was a little boring until i got to about page 50, i would have put it down long before that but my mother kept nagging me to read it ;)

[Bullroarer]

Smart woman...

[anduin]

Trunks....you might as well read LOTR also, because I don't think that Bull is going to let you rest until you do. ;)

Am I right? ;)

[Bullroarer]

Yup. Why?

THERE MY BOOKS, THATS WHY!!!!!!!