[William Cloud Hicklin]

We can't however ignore the effect the movies have had on at least some readers, presumably of the younger sort. Moving through Web fora where the younger set hang out, this is typical of the opinions expressed:

"Yeah, I tried to read the books but never finished the first one. BOOO-OOORING! Almost no action or fighting, just a lot of descriptions and talking. Jackson did a good job cutting out most of the dull stuff and making those moldy old books exciting."

I wish I was making this up, but I'm not.

When I picked this book up I thought i was in for a treat. everyone told me how good it was but in reality, it was BORING! I read more captivating stories in my textbooks at school! It did have a very complex and very well thought plot line but other than that the only thing good about this book was the MOVIE!!!!!There wasn't one time that i read more than 5 pages without dozing off! In summary i didn't really enjoy this book snd wouldn't reccomend it to anyone unless they had difficulties sleeping!!!! By the way, did i mention BORING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yeah well i only read half of the first book. i am TOTALLY obsessed with the movies, but i couldnt make it through the book. its too slow but yeah

"Well, the movie is coming out, and many people say this book is great, so I picked it up.

So far, it is everything I feared it would be.

I have read 130 pages filled with hobbit lameness, and the total cumulation of actual events could have easily been written in 20 pages, with a decent level of description and atmosphere. There is at least one superfluos poem or song every 3 pages

Actually I've always said that Peter Jackson did the "William Goldman version" of LotR. Goldman of course wrote the Princess Bride which he says is an abridged version of an older book by a man named Morgenstern. (It's not actually - the book is all Goldman's work.) The line is that Goldman abridged the book, leaving out all of the boring stuff and only keeping all of the interesting and exciting parts - the fights and chases and whatnot. Which is more or less what Jackson did with the movies

--from the National Novel-writing Month Forum!

while every loves the lord of the rings books, i thought this book was so boring i couldn't believe how everyone could love it! i thought most people didn't like to read yet claim they love this book? i mean, it seems so impossible! this book is so slow i couldn't believe i was still reading it. i have seen the movies and i love the movies but i couldn't make it past the part in the book when they leave the main village next to their hobbit village. i mean, it takes them 20 years to leave the hobbit village! then they are stuck doing a bunch of ridiculous things on the way to the next village. i guess it was some impending doom that was coming because they sure acting quickly! at this rate, they might die before they get the fight the bad guy since they were already so old

I personally have enjoyed the Lord of the Rings movies very much, but everytime i try to read the books, find that i cannot.The way Tolkein writes rather bores me.. I would swear that my math teacher had written them.

Of course, this is 21st-century America- where to the vast majority the name 'Notre Dame' means a football team.