Speaking of tiring texts... did anybody of you try to read 'The Lord of the Rings'? Man, I really like the movies but the book was really too heavy for me. I dozed off several times during the first 100 pages. Then I quitted reading. I tried it once again in German, but the way Tolkien is writing makes me fuzzy. The author seems to love the detail, this may be nice sometimes, but... well... I just couldn't read it.
By the way... I hate my work...
Since I can't stand fantasy fiction of any kind, I do not like Lord of the Rings. I read the first book and I wondered many times how many pages one can write just describing things I do not want to now about. And it's very heavy stuff indeed, the language isn't easy. I never tried it in German, though. The fact that "elves" had been translated with "Elben" is even for me as someone who doesn't like fantasy, absolutely terrible. Raping the German language …
I know what you mean, it took me half a year to read this book because you need to take a rest between the lines to think about what was now going on in the story.Zitat von Ranmaru
Tolkin wrote a lot of unnecessary stuff.
The reason was that people in former times couldn't go holiday in foreign countries anytime like nowadays, so British authors were used to write in their works every single detail of the landscape.
This style was common used to this time, think about it that Lords of the Ring was written around 1940-45, so Tolkin choose of course this style.
Well, this huge describtion of the world of Middle Earth and the hobbit family quarrels are annoying, and have mostly nothing to do with the plot, but after the first fithy pages you get used to it.
I wonder sometimes how the fellowship could be so easy going when they were in such a rush.
The book is hard to read in many cases but the story is more detailed than you could show in a nine hour triology, but the good thing is that the movie got more into details Tolkin just mentioned in his books, like the Uruk-Hai.
Zu jeder Zeit, an jedem Ort, bleibt das Tun der Menschen das gleiche...
-- Legend of Galactic Heroes
I know that. It is exact like with me.Speaking of tiring texts... did anybody of you try to read 'The Lord of the Rings'? Man, I really like the movies but the book was really too heavy for me. I dozed off several times during the first 100 pages. Then I quitted reading. I tried it once again in German, but the way Tolkien is writing makes me fuzzy. The author seems to love the detail, this may be nice sometimes, but... well... I just couldn't read it.
By the way... I hate my work...
I have also tried to read "The Lord of the Rings" in German, but somehow it bored me, ... It is already a while since I read it, perhaps I should try it again. ^^
I just don't like the style of Tolkiens writing.
But the movie was very nice and I liked to watch it.
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