The Lord of the Rings - The Ratings

[Grey_Wolf]

:)

Rate: 1 - 10

Adventure: 10

Thrilling sequences: 8

Funny sequences: 7

Sorrowful sequences: 5

Characters: 10

Women: 8
Men: 8
Elvers: 7
Dwarfs: 5
Wizards: 10
Hobbits: 10
Orcs: 10

Landscape Descriptions: 10

...feel free to add categories if you want.

[Nurvingiel]

Okay, I'll play...

Adventure: 4
Thrilling sequences: 5
Funny sequences: 3
Sorrowful sequences: 4
Characters: 5
Women: 2
Men: 4
Elves: 5
Dwarfs: 5
Wizards: 5
Hobbits: 5
Orcs: 5

Added:
Scenery: 5
Continuity: 3

I weighted my answers against each other as well as how often they occured in the books, but they're overall based on quality. Do with them what you will. :)

[Grey_Wolf]

Originally posted by Nurvingiel
Okay, I'll play...

Adventure: 4
Thrilling sequences: 5
Funny sequences: 3
Sorrowful sequences: 4
Characters: 5
Women: 2
Men: 4
Elves: 5
Dwarfs: 5
Wizards: 5
Hobbits: 5
Orcs: 5

Added:
Scenery: 5
Continuity: 3

I weighted my answers against each other as well as how often they occured in the books, but they're overall based on quality. Do with them what you will. :)

I just thought it might be fun for LOTR-fans to rate the books. I meant for everybody to come in here and post their opinions.
:D

[Goldberry1]

Adventure: 5
Thrilling Sequences: 5
Funny Sequences: 3
Sorrowful Sequences: 5
Characters: 5
Women: 3
Men: 5
Elves: 5
Dwarfs: 5
Wizards: 5
Hobbits: 5
Orcs: 5
Landscape Descriptions: 5
Scenery: 4
Continuity: 4

[Attalus]

Adventure: 5

Thrilling sequences: 5

Funny sequences: 5

Sorrowful sequences: 5

Characters: 5

Women: 5
Men: 5
Elvers: 5
Dwarfs: 5
Wizards: 5
Hobbits: 5
Orcs: 5

Landscape Descriptions: 5


New categories:
Rereadability: 6
Ability to make rereaders argue endlessly over trivia: 7
:D

[entss89]

new catigory:

endless tensity:5
:p

[Tuor of Gondolin]

Adventure: 5

Thrilling sequences: 5

Funny sequences: 3

Sorrowful sequences: 5

Characters: 5

Women: 3
Men: 5
Elves: 5
Dwarves: 4
Wizards: 5
Hobbits: 5 (except the nassty fat hobbit, we hates him, we hates him forever)
Orcsees: 3

Landscape Descriptions: 5


New categories:
Rereadability: 5
Ability to make rereaders argue endlessly over trivia: 6
Absence of movie directors suggesting changes: 7

[Nurvingiel]

Hey, I liked your review Attalus. Especially that very last addition... :D

[Eowyn, Lady of Rohan]

Adventure: 5!!!
Thrilling Sequences: 5?
Funny Sequences: 3
Sorrowful ' ': 4
Characters: 5!!!
etc...

[samwiselvr2008]

Adventure: 5
Thrilling sequences: 5
Funny sequences: 3
Sorrowful sequences: 5
Characters: 5
Women: 4 (the wormen that he dose have are really good, but he could use more, in my opinion)
Men: 5
Elves: 5
Dwarves: 4 (He dose good with the dwarves, but we don't see much of them, other then Gimli)
Wizards: 5
Hobbits: 5
Orcss: 4
Landscape Descriptions: 5 (I have heard from some that they hate Tolkien's work b/c he spends to much time on LD)

Added:
Poetry: 5

[Falagar]

Adventure: 6[b]
Thrilling sequences: 5
Funny sequences: 4
Sorrowful sequences: 5
Characters: 5
Women: 3
Men: 5
Elvers: [b]6
Dwarfs: 5
Wizards: 5
Hobbits: 5
Orcs: 3
Landscape Descriptions: 5
Poetry: 6

Readability: 5
Ability to make rereaders argue endlessly over trivia: 6
"Safe-havens": 5

Absence of movie directors suggesting changes: 7
I'd give it a 10.

And it should also get some credit for being the only book ever to be taken serious despite containing a character named "Bombadil".

[Grey_Wolf]

EXTRA!! EXTRA!! READ ALL ABOUT IT!!!

the rating-system has been upgraded.

Now it's 1 - 10 :)

[samwiselvr2008]

Should I change my last post, or should I just let my fellow 'mooters duble my ratings (though I may change then for a 1-10 scale)?

[Grey_Wolf]

Originally posted by samwiselvr2008
Should I change my last post, or should I just let my fellow 'mooters duble my ratings (though I may change then for a 1-10 scale)?

I didn't know that one could edit another poster's post .
(I sometimes, by mistake, happen to punch the edit button instead of the quote button and been told that it's the Admin prerogative to change posts)
:)

[samwiselvr2008]

Originally posted by Grey_Wolf
I didn't know that one could edit another poster's post .
(I sometimes, by mistake, happen to punch the edit button instead of the quote button and been told that it's the Admin prerogative to change posts)
:)

That's not what I was saying at all! I was asking if I should go edit my post, or if other 'mooters should look at it, and take what I said and double it, but not edit the post, just double it to know what I was saying(for example, if I pute 3 down for something, and they would take the three and multiply it by 2, and then my rating would be 6, see?).

[Thorin II]

Adventure: 9
Thrilling Sequences: 8
Funny Sequences: 3
Sorrowful Sequences: 8
Characters: 9
Women: 3
Men: 9
Elves: 8
Dwarfs: 7
Wizards: 10
Hobbits: 10
Orcs: 10
Landscape Descriptions: 9
Scenery: 9
Continuity: 8

[Azhag_Nuug]

Adventure:9
Thrilling:9
Funny:4
Sorrowful:9
Characters:10
Men:8
Women:9
Dwarves:8
Elves:8
Hobbits:10
Orcs:10
Landscape:8

New Category
Meaningness: 10

I think that JRR had a really good meaning behind his books. It wasn't just an epic adventure but a story about the real world. "The best way to show reality, is through myth," I think he said.