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Post by Imbecamiel on Mar 11, 2005 17:41:45 GMT -5
Hey, does anyone have any interesting stories about when they were first introduced to LOTR? Or special memories of reading it, etc.?
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Post by IrisHobbit on Mar 11, 2005 17:52:04 GMT -5
When I was eight I tried to read it and when I got to the part in Part 1 where the Black Riders "sniff" out Frodo and his ring, I got frightened and put it away, promising myself I'd never read it again! Hehe :-) (I get scared easily...) Then, last year, I got interested and read them! With only a little bit of hiding under the bed. Just kididng And I watched the movies only about a month ago! The German exchange student, Patrick, showed them to us.
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Post by Imbecamiel on Mar 11, 2005 18:07:21 GMT -5
Hehe, if you got scared just reading about the Black Riders... Our dad started read The Hobbit to us when I was 11. Just as he was finishing it, we left on a vacation, so we brought along the dramatized taped of LOTR to listen to in the car. I can still remember listening to the part when they're sitting around the fire on Weathertop... We were camping in a swamp that night, and we were practically the only people there. I remember sitting by our campfire, staring off into the woods, and wishing Strider was there to protect *us* LOL, I think I was just about as scared as the hobbits were...
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Post by IrisHobbit on Mar 11, 2005 18:33:30 GMT -5
Hah! That's funny! :-) Sorry, I have to go now (that is why my RPG post was so short)
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Post by Truey on Mar 12, 2005 15:51:44 GMT -5
Fell in love with pippin from the first. I LOVE the Bathtub song (Why coulnd't PJ have shot THAT scene? *cries*)
I cried when I thought Shelob got Frodo. Sobbed all night long. Slept maybe an hour, all night, becuase I was so upset. I was such a mess the next morning... mom was really worried.
Sat up in an apple tree and read as the Fellowship entered Lorien. My little sisters came looking for me, so I pretended I was an elf hiding from a bunch of orcs...
And I was an emotional wreck when Frodo went into the West. See, I thought that ment he died. And I didn't want him to die!!!
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Post by Lari on Mar 12, 2005 16:02:59 GMT -5
I don't remember where I got my copy of the Hobbit. But I know we had this paperback of it and I couldn't put it down! I loved it.
But then I didn't know, at least I don't remember knowing, that there were other books.
But then a "friend" of mine who didn't like to read at all was reading them. In fact he was reading it a lightining speeds. So I was like, well if he likes those that well, then I'm sure I, who loves to read books like that, would like it.
And I did. Then one day I was walking throuhg Wal-Mart and saw a copy of Two Towers, I think that was the one, and it had this awesome real life picture on it and said something about an epic movie. I was like WHAT! There is going to be a movie! I was so excited!
I also remember that I was reading Two Towers when the Two Towers fell in 2001. That was strange.
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Post by IrisHobbit on Mar 12, 2005 17:00:01 GMT -5
Hehe! What a coinkydink! (coincedence)
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Post by Pip400 on Mar 13, 2005 16:36:00 GMT -5
I remember the when we first were intersted when FOTR came out. My Dad ordered The Hobbit and LOTR, so he started reading the hobbit to us. I was about 10 at the time, and I thought it was boring. (GASP! Blaspemy, I know *sob*)
But then when I was 12 I was bored and started to read the FOTR, I thought it was boring until Frodo got stabbed, then I loved it! (Doesn't that sound mean tho? I only liked it when Frodo got stabbed. *Sob again* Blaspemy I say!!! HANG ME!!)
So then I saw the movies, and was SO mad when they made Farimir mean, and was FURIOUS when they made Frodo just abandon Sam. *wants to tackle PJ*
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Post by IrisHobbit on Mar 13, 2005 17:19:54 GMT -5
Haha, that's OK Pip... NOT! JK
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Post by Truey on Mar 13, 2005 20:10:17 GMT -5
I'd love to tackle PJ for leaving out a whole fat hunk of the last book! But if you look at it from a movie-maker's point of veiw, what he did was really probobly best.... much as I hate to admit it.
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Post by Nefhiriel on Mar 14, 2005 18:37:10 GMT -5
Yeah...Even if PJ did leave out some pretty cool stuff, and changed a few things, I'm still eternally grateful for all the effort he put into the movies ;D
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Post by IrisHobbit on Mar 14, 2005 18:43:40 GMT -5
I know you are all going to be SOOOO mad at me, but I haven't even read the last book! I'm getting around to it.. finishing Hobbit first
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Post by Pip400 on Mar 14, 2005 19:02:30 GMT -5
GASP!!! YOU HEATHEN!!! jk, lol GO READ IT!
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Post by IrisHobbit on Mar 14, 2005 19:43:30 GMT -5
hehehe grrrrrrrrr
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Post by Truey on Mar 15, 2005 22:06:26 GMT -5
I was first exposed to The Hobbit when I was about nine... a friend of mine was reading it. I was more into horse books back then, and the idea of reading about some fat, fuzzy, wimpy wittle guy wasn't too appealing. My Grandmother gave me my first copy of The Lord of the Rings when I was about eleven, and they were just beginning work on the movies. I stated it, but then life got crazy and it was brushed aside for a moment. Or a year. Or two. When I rediscovered it in my closet one day, I happened to be awefully bored, so I took it out on the back porch where I could listen to the wind in the wind chimes, and the comforting sounds of the wildlife in our backyard, snuggled up with my cat Jacob (then a kitten, I think), and I was under the spell of the Ring in no time...
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