The creations of the Tolkiens - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

peregrine · 11-08-2001, 06:03 PM

i seem to have done it all backwards - maybe that's just a reflection of the availability of the books. I read LOTR, then the Hobbit, the the Silm, and have only recently finished UT, BLT1 and BLT2. I am hoping to score the rest of HoME for Xmas and find a quiet place for the next few months. Maybe i prefer the older books because they have a grandeur, whereas LoTR is on a grand scale but told quaintly? i dunno

11-08-2001, 06:03 PM	#4
peregrine Pile O'Bones Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Australia Posts: 25	i seem to have done it all backwards - maybe that's just a reflection of the availability of the books. I read LOTR, then the Hobbit, the the Silm, and have only recently finished UT, BLT1 and BLT2. I am hoping to score the rest of HoME for Xmas and find a quiet place for the next few months. Maybe i prefer the older books because they have a grandeur, whereas LoTR is on a grand scale but told quaintly? i dunno