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vanwalossien · 12-21-2002, 11:43 AM

First one thing while we are speaking of papers: I and my friend wrote 61 pages about Tolkien and Middle-Earth, and LotR and the movies in ONE WEEK! One LONG week!

I've always known about LotR, maybe because my mother is as big a bookworm as me. But I have to admit I didn't read it until the fuss about the movie started. I had always thought it was a very difficult book, so I hadn't dared try before (I was fourteen when the 1st movie came) because my pride plain denied me to read it in Norwegian. But when the movie hysteria grew really wild I realised that: 1) I had to see this film, and one should ALWAYS read the book first and 2) apparently, I was the only person on earth who hadn't read the book yet. So I get the Hobbit out of the library and read it in a week or so (Mock not! English is not my native language), but then there proved to be a problem. In mid-November 2001, of course there was no copy of LotR left in any library in all Norway... Early in December I got hold of my aunt's copy, and bragging a bit more than I perhaps should have, I told my best friend that I would finish FotR before the movie opened. And I did, late in the night the 19th I was done. When I had got that far my speed picked up a bit, and a month later I had read the whole book. I cried like a baby when I finished (Frodo left Sam behind at the Grey Havens *heartbreak*). So, that's my story. Or at least thje beginning of it, I've now read the Silm too, and am hoping for hard, square and (quite) flat Christmas presents.

I'd just like to add that the best friend I mentioned still hasn't finished the book, and she reads in Norwegian (just so you know..). [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

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12-21-2002, 11:43 AM	#55
vanwalossien Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: middle of Nowhere/Norway Posts: 372	First one thing while we are speaking of papers: I and my friend wrote 61 pages about Tolkien and Middle-Earth, and LotR and the movies in ONE WEEK! One LONG week! I've always known about LotR, maybe because my mother is as big a bookworm as me. But I have to admit I didn't read it until the fuss about the movie started. I had always thought it was a very difficult book, so I hadn't dared try before (I was fourteen when the 1st movie came) because my pride plain denied me to read it in Norwegian. But when the movie hysteria grew really wild I realised that: 1) I had to see this film, and one should ALWAYS read the book first and 2) apparently, I was the only person on earth who hadn't read the book yet. So I get the Hobbit out of the library and read it in a week or so (Mock not! English is not my native language), but then there proved to be a problem. In mid-November 2001, of course there was no copy of LotR left in any library in all Norway... Early in December I got hold of my aunt's copy, and bragging a bit more than I perhaps should have, I told my best friend that I would finish FotR before the movie opened. And I did, late in the night the 19th I was done. When I had got that far my speed picked up a bit, and a month later I had read the whole book. I cried like a baby when I finished (Frodo left Sam behind at the Grey Havens heartbreak). So, that's my story. Or at least thje beginning of it, I've now read the Silm too, and am hoping for hard, square and (quite) flat Christmas presents. I'd just like to add that the best friend I mentioned still hasn't finished the book, and she reads in Norwegian (just so you know..). [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] [ December 21, 2002: Message edited by: vanwalossien ] [ December 21, 2002: Message edited by: vanwalossien ] __________________ "The ships hung in the air in much the same way as bricks don't"