Converts to LotR!!!

[The Ringbearer]

I've made 2 converts to LotR in the last few months! And one of them didn't even LIKE LotR before she began reading the books and watching the movies! Has anyone else had similar experiences?

[Goldberry1]

My cousin said that the movie was so stupid, so naturally I tried to get her to watch FOTR while we were on vacation, and she did watch parts of it. Then when we went home and she actually went out and rented it!! She's trying to start the books but hasn't had much time because of school. She really likes it now though.

[Sminty_Smeagol]

I have gotten 2 friends in to the movies/books. And one in to Tengwar. Those I can safely say are MY converts. However, I think I have enfluenced many people in my class, and they know I am THE tolkienist in my class, so ocassionally people will mention that they watched LOTR, or ask me about Tengwar, and they know I am knowledged in it and would like to converse about it.

But then I have a friend who has been reading LOTR every year for like, 3 years, and I was very complimented when he assumed I was very tolkien-wise, and was surprised that I have only been reading it one year. I really am not knowledged LOTR -I have only read it once, and that was a year ago, and I have a hard time remembering characters outside the Fellowship- but I have read the Silm, parts of HomE and Unfinished Tales. And of course I was EXTREMELY complimented when he assumed I knew more than him about ME.

Anyone know how to get a hand on HoME? The whole series?

[Rían]

I've heard you can order the whole series on Amazon.com for a good price. Still pretty pricey, though.

[cassiopeia]

Originally posted by Sminty_Smeagol
Anyone know how to get a hand on HoME? The whole series?

You could try the library. My local library has all the HoME, I think. :D

Well, I have converted two people. A few years ago, I made my sister read the books and now she loves them. And a few months ago I kept talking about the LOTR book and movie to a friend of mine, so we went to see the movie. I tried to get him to read the books, but he hasn't yet. :rolleyes:

[Khamûl]

Well, I tried to get my mother to read The Hobbit.:D This was after I dragged her to the theater to see FotR. She didn't even get to the part with Bilbo and the Trolls. She says that there were too many dwarves and people to keep up with. At least I tried.:p

[Inderjit Sanghera]

Thoguh I try to encourage people to read them, I don't pursue it very far. If they don't like LOTr, then they don't like whether they think it is stupid or for losers. It's their decision. I have got a few friends who have a little intrest in M-E, but they aren't really intrested in it.

[Agburanar]

My sister watched the movie and thought it was brilliant :mad:. Then I leant her the books and now she is totally anti-movie and pro-book. Hooray!:D

[Sister Golden Hair]

Moving to Lord of the Rings book forum.

[Khadrane]

A friend of mine read The Hobbit in fifth grade because I convinced her to and never told me she hated it until about a year ago. But when the LotR movie came out, she read it again and loved it, and then she read LotR, and now Tolkien is her favorite author. (At least, he was a few months ago):D I'm happy!:D

[Nimphredil]

Originally posted by Khamûl
Well, I tried to get my mother to read The Hobbit

My mother was the person who convinced me to read the Hobbit. At first i wasn't interested to it at all and didn't want to read it. But then i started to read the part where Bilbo and Gollum are solving the riddles and then i was hooked. That was years ago, and now i have read (don't know how many times) lotr and sil also. My mother has read the lotr also, but she keeps forgotting all the names, she has made me way bigger fan that she is.

I don't have such luck - none of my friends want to read it. One of them just asked (while he was looking over my shoulder) what's a hobbit. btw he has seen the movie, and he doesn't remember anything from it and he never wants to see it again. I tried to explain that the book and the movie are compleately different things. But he isn't a big reader, so why push it.

[WallRocker]

My Mom was the first one to get me to read the Hobbit as well. Then I picked up LOTR when the movie came out(fortunately, before I saw the movie). After my Mom saw the movie, she admitted to me that she had never read the books! So she is now starting FOTR. It'll take her awhile to get throught it, but I'm making sure it happens :)

[Elven Princess Arwen]

I'm in the process of trying to convert my friend but she refuses. She doesn't like LOTR, she doesn't like Harry Potter (thank god or she'd drive me insane) but i'll convert her yet!

“All things are connected like the blood which unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.” -Chief Seattle

“How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own?” -Schopenhauer

*~*Arwen*~*

[Renille]

I made my whole family into LOtR converts!! My mom is reading the book aloud to my smaller siblings, while my 14 year old brother is currently on "The Return of the King." Isn't it wonderful...but I think everyone in the world should read JRRT's series at least ONCE. That would be ideal.
I think everyone should start buying cheap copies of FoTR and leave them on airport seats, restaurants, places like that...with bookplates telling the finder to keep the book, read it, and put it somewhere else.

Haha. Nice idea, few funds.

[Agburanar]

You talk of LotR like it's a religion..... instead of a whole lifestyle!

[Elfhelm]

I read The Hobbit to my daughters. The rest they did on their own. They are both fanatical JRRT fans. :D

[TolkienGurl]

My two little boy cousins (6 and 10 years old) are my new converts to The Lord of the Rings. First they watched the Fellowship with me, and then the extended DVD, and now they want me to read them the Hobbit! Oh, and their Christmas list consists of ALL the LotR action figures! Every time I see them they ask me a TON of really intelligent questions. I'm so happy they like LotR!:D I'm a cool cousin.

[Renille]

Originally posted by Agburanar
You talk of LotR like it's a religion..... instead of a whole lifestyle!

See...I don't personally think it's either...just a wonderful book. I guess I already have a religion and don't have time for an alternate lifestyle. High school is confusing enough!:p

[Falagar]

I have tried to convert two of my friends to LotR.
One of them have almost finished it, he loves the movie (but mostly because of the sword-fighting), and the other one got to Caradhras, before he stopped reading it :(

So now most people in my class thinks the guy who loves sword-fighting (and haven't finished RotK yet) is the Tolkienist...
Well well, let them live their lives in unconciusness! ;)

[samwiselvr2008]

However, I think I have enfluenced many people in my class, and they know I am THE tolkienist in my class, so ocassionally people will mention that they watched LOTR, or ask me about Tengwar, and they know I am knowledged in it and would like to converse about it.

Yup, people will personly mention it around me. "I saw The Fellowship of the Ring yesturday, Jennifer" if they arn't scared that I'll get into a long conversation. To get me mad some people purposly say things like "Isn't LOTR stupid?" to ther friend when I am standing right there beside them. Some people make me so mad!

[The Ringbearer]

Woah! This is alot o' replies!

My friends are becoming wary around me. They have learned the hard way that if they get me started on my fav subject, then I don't stop. :rolleyes:

[RosieCotton]

I've converted many people....
Two of my cousins still haven't read the books, but I got them to dress up as Arwen for Halloween. Its a start.
I made one of my friends start reading, and now she's in love with the series (she got Orlando Bloom's autograph by the way!)
All of my other friends have seen the movie, but still roll their eyes whenever I start my babbling. Perhaps because they realize I probably won't stop for an hour.....or 4. Oh well. I need to work harder :)

Rosie

[Lollypopgurl]

I got a guy to like them.:) :) :)

He's gonna start on the books after TT comes out.

[Lanelf]

Well, my sister nagged me into seeing the FOTR movie when it came out - the first time. The other 20 or so were all me!;) I read the books after seeing it, but I'd read the Hobbit years ago. I made a deal with a friend that I'd read a book she wanted me to (Chinese Cinderella) and she'd read The Hobbit, but she 'hasn't had time' lately.:mad: Gggrrrrr....just read it already!!! She's been stubbornly resisting conversion, even after I talk about it all day every day. Hmmm, what else would work?
Lanelf.

[samwiselvr2008]

Originally posted by Lanelf
Well, my sister nagged me into seeing the FOTR movie when it came out - the first time. The other 20 or so were all me!;) I read the books after seeing it, but I'd read the Hobbit years ago. I made a deal with a friend that I'd read a book she wanted me to (Chinese Cinderella) and she'd read The Hobbit, but she 'hasn't had time' lately.:mad: Gggrrrrr....just read it already!!! She's been stubbornly resisting conversion, even after I talk about it all day every day. Hmmm, what else would work?
Lanelf.

Off subject: Hey! That's really cool! I read Chinese Cinderalla, and I loved it! Deffantly on my top 20 list! Did you like it?

On Subject: Maybe you could tie her down to a chair, hold the book in her face (open to page one), Tie her hands behind her back, and hire a personal page turner!;)

[Lanelf]

Oh, CC was ok, I just don't read that genre often.
And I'm considering your second option... a wonderful Christmas present!;)
Lanelf.

[Sicirus]

I have made one with both the book and the moot. It was hard though she kept saying no in till she tried it one day and it got me by surprise.:D
My friend is now the only one I know who besidea another firend who I bought the books for, really is in to the reading.