The Hobbit
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Sacrilege, Jaline! Those books are treasures of the English language. I daresay Tolkien was the premier linguist of our time. He understand the roots of western European languages better than possibly anyone before or since. Seamus Heaney might be the one person of our time who comes close to Tolkien in that regard.
I absolutely love the Hobbit – it's a timeless classic that I think is just as engaging for adult readers as it is for kids. Every word of the first page is pure gold. I really really hope they make a movie out of it.
On the subject, and at the risk of revealing my profound nerdity, has anyone here read the Silmarillion or The Children of Hurin? I would love to see some of those stories turned into movies – they are the background fabric against which the more 'contemporary' story of LOTR is set. The Children of Hurin would especially be beautiful and heartbreaking, as would the story of Beren and Luthien.
*dons cloak, disappears into the mist
- cypto-jesuitical drivel.********
- I'm not saying it's not good. Just that it bored me so much in the first few chapters.Jaline
- Its dishonest and offers a stew of mysticism only LSD could make coherent. All roads lead to Rome,********
- Oh for crying out loud capsize. BTW you misspelled Crypto-. -100.gramme
- You'd have said none of that if you didn't know I'm a Christian.gramme
- crypto-, yeah, you got me. christian or not doesn't change the pure density of the prose.********
- its the fruitcake of english lit- passed around endlessly and indigestible.********
- and heavy, man.********
- So what would you consider to be a strong example of English literature?gramme
- writing at the same time as Tolkien?sybil bedford, anthony powell, waugh, w.lewis, powys,********
- enid blyton for christ's sake... but wait there's more Graham greene,Orwell, Maugham, wait there's more!********
- Derek Marlowe,anthony Burgess, nancy mitford********
- cypto-jesuitical drivel.