LOTR: what did you NOT like in the books?

[Bêthberry]

I have always found it difficult to read Sam's battle with Shelob without a smirk or two.

[Galadriel]

Originally Posted by Bêthberry

I have always found it difficult to read Sam's battle with Shelob without a smirk or two.

[Boo Radley]

Originally Posted by Bêthberry

I have always found it difficult to read Sam's battle with Shelob without a smirk or two.

Oh, I don't know. Thinking about how much Sam loved Frodo, I could see him getting into a berserkers rage easily enough. Or are you referring to something else.

I've been thinking back about things that bothered me, and I remembered the scene in Fellowship, when the Hobbits are captured by the Barrow Wights and upon being freed, Tom extols them to run around naked.

Excuse me?

You lads go ahead if you want, I'll just stand behind this shrubbery with my eyes averted until someone comes along with a change of clothes, thank you very much.

[Galadriel]

Originally Posted by Boo Radley

Excuse me?

You heard right

[Boo Radley]

Originally Posted by Galadriel

You heard right

Yeah, well the running around outside naked portion of my life is WAAAAAAYYYYYYY behind me.

There are time I fear good old Tom would not have passed a drug test.

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Boo Radley

There are time I fear good old Tom would not have passed a drug test.

You aren't the first to have had that thought.

At times I've thought some of the Elves, mainly the Silvan variety such as Haldir of Lórien, came off as rather sanctimonious.

[Boo Radley]

Ah, yes... the Natl. Lampoon version. I giggled myself to sleep many times with that when I was a wee nipper back in college.

[Alfirin]

Originally Posted by Boo Radley

Ah, yes... the Natl. Lampoon version. I giggled myself to sleep many times with that when I was a wee nipper back in college.

Harvard lampoon, not National. BTW this is what the older version looked like (look familiar?)