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... how Boromir was treated at times. Or the creation of quotable movie lines, such as "Let's hunt some Orc" from the end of Fellowship of the Ring. Uncalled for (although, amusing, none the less.)
As for Order of the Phoenix I detested what they did to the book. I still want to see jelly ... ... Taylor (a journalist's traveling memoir of early California)
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (I loved the movie)
The Fellowship of the Ring by Tolkien (Starting on my new books!) ... a very lengthy list of characters and places to get to those. (Have you seen how many characters there are in Fellowship of the Ring or War and Peace?) Usually when they add scenes it's to get rid of scenes that would take too much time.
Example: in the Fellowship of the Ring movie, they added in the scene on the mountain when Boramir has a hard time giving the ring back to Frodo (even though it wasn't in the book) because it showed so much ... ... would be pointless without some sort of contains/contained in category. Many (if not most) people would know that The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King are sometimes published in a single volume as The Lord of the Rings. Ma ... ... by Kate Chopin
10. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
11. Writing with Style John R. Trimble
12. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
13. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
14. Ordinary People by Judith Guest
15. Elements of Style by E.B. White and William St ... Please note that reading The Shadow of the Torturer is like reading The Fellowship of the Ring; it is the first portion of a long novel, not the first novel in a series. It's wonderfully written, does a great job of introducing characters and their world, etc., but it doesn't complete the ... Two Towers starting today, having finished Fellowship of the ring over breakfast. ... and Holly with the program and also to you for your job interview! :)
Yesterday was absolutely lovely. We got through The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers. Suge's dogs actually listened to me and were even being angels for me while she left me outside with them on leashes as ... ... Quinn Yarbro
Blood Roses by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
The Mammoth Hunters by Jean M. Auel
Blood Debt by Tanya Huff
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien ... out every word, relishing it as a morsel of goodness. But all things do eventually come to an end, and I've finished The Fellowship of the Ring and have now started The Two Towers ;-) Now I get to start relishing all over again. ... The Lord of the Rings to be a "work" - I consider it a specific edition of the series. If you own a Boxed Set and I own The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and Return of the King (+/- The Hobbit) - as far as I am concerned we own the same books, being in a boxed set doesn't add ... ... film is usually chosen is because that is the ground-breaking film. But even ignoring that, neither Return of the Jedi or The Fellowship of the Ring would deserve to be there - you can't ignore the fact that RotJ is a "Care Bears/Star Wars" film, and the last 30 minutes of Fellowship is so ... ... book. I wanted to take the rest of the day to just let it sink in. Very satisfying read.
Today I'm going to start The Fellowship of the Ring with my new paperback edition *big grin*. I am so looking forward to this. It's been way too long since I read these books. Middle Earth here I ... ... Rings books. It took me forever to get through them, though, so I kinda understand why you felt the need for a break after The Fellowship of the Ring.
I just read your comments about McEwan, and thought it was interesting what you'd heard about Amsterdam and Saturday compared to Atoneme ... ... 288 pgs.
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman – 465 pgs.
Richard III by William Shakespeare – 106 pgs.
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien – 458 pgs.
Manuscript #1 – 80 pgs.
Manuscript #2 – 51 pgs.
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien – 398 pgs.
T ... ... of Fire
3 May 2008 -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
10 May 2008 -- The Princess Bride
17 May 2008 -- The Fellowship of the Ring
24 May 2008 -- Pride and Prejudice (BBC, Part I)
31 May 2008 -- Pride and Prejudice (BBC, Part II)
7 June 2008 -- The Terminal (form ... ... was in very bad taste, and more food and drink were needed to cure the guests of shock and annoyance.
Bilbo's speech, The Fellowship of the Ring
I forgot exactly how long that was, and I wrote a slightly shortened version. Oh well... ... series functionality makes it difficult to use to draw Zeitgeist-y conclusions. For example, the number of people who own The Fellowship of the Ring is very close to the number who own Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire--it's just that half those people own it as part of The Lord of the Rin ... ... relationship between Hamlet and The Complete Works of Shakespeare) and volume-containment (the relationship between The Fellowship of the Ring and Lord of the Rings). ... zum anderen Leute die Perdido Street Station besitzen. Aber das gilt genauso für Der Herr der Ringe gegenüber Die Gefahrten.
Tim hat erwähnt dass er ein Art "Eltern-Kind" Verbindung einfügen um diese Problemen zu lösen, aber es könnte dauern...
Wegen Weltensturm, der Werk Suc ... This weekend I didn't paint my bathroom, but I did watch Prince Caspian, The Fellowship of the Ring, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
El -- such a good idea for a thread!
Elle -- good to see you again! You, too, LadyN! I've been missing you both!
Bib -- ... ... Fold by Terry Goodkind
41. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
42. The Shadow of the Pomegranate by Jean Plaidy
43. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
44. Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
45. Lady of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
46. Fortune's Favorites by Colleen McCullou ... ... want to catch up on LT as much as I can for all the posts I've missed lately and will particpate in the group movie watch, The Fellowship of the Ring.
On Saturday I'm going to go to the post office to apply for my passport. Either also that day or on Sunday I'm going to apply for a bank ... This Saturday we will be watching the theatrical cut of The Fellowship of the Ring as our group movie watch. Unlike the usual time of 6:30pm 9:30pm LT time (also known as Eastern time), we will be starting the movie at 6:00pm 9:00pm LT time.
Hope to ... I have this Saturday off work and can join the group movie watch.
How do you know if your copy of The Fellowship of the Rings is short or extended version? My copy merely says 'Widescreen Version.' It says it is approximately 178 minutes.
I would love to see what others think of compski's ... ... partly because I read it so many times as a kid, but I didn't bother reading The Lord of the Rings until after I saw The Fellowship of the Ring. I do though think that Peter Jackson's film versions are milestones in the same way the original Star Wars is. To me, these are films that ... ... likable, memorable team of heroic characters, though slightly cliched in their likeness to Gandalf, Frodo and Strider from The Fellowship of the Ring. Truthfully, there were a few other times where I couldn't help but draw parallels to Tolkien's work, but for the most part, it didn't bother me ... A favorite from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring -
Elrond:
This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are ... Happy Birthday monicabrandiwine. Is your name from Fellowship of the Rings cuz that's what it makes me think of. When the Hobbits were walking to Frodo's new house at Buckland on the Brandywine River just before they left for Rivendell & the Black Riders were hunting for them! I love that part ... ... the Cat Dragged In by " "
The Singing Sands by Josephine Tey
The Hollow Chest by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Two Towers by " "
The Return of the King by " "
I wanted hardcovers of the Tolkien books, but the price is ... 36. Touching the Void by Joe Simpson (215 pages)
37. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (398 pages)
Though I really consider The Lord of the Rings to be one book, I'm counting it as three separate books for the purposes of my challenge, because I've ... ... of the Rings
Books I read in February:
1. The Return of the King
Books I read in March:
1. The Two Towers
2. Fellowship of the Ring
(I thought I'd show them in reverse order just for fun)
Good thing I'm staying away from any of these books for my 888 challenge --they are too ... ... for example).
The RRD-H case is probably printing number on the left, year on the right, though with a popular book like The Fellowship of the Ring it could well be reversed.
The printing number does not identify the edition in any way. They are two completely separate concepts. ... my high school life and everything I wished it was.
In Progress
(10. A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle)
(11. Fellowship of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein)
(12. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges)
TBR
(13. Wicked by Gregory Maguire)
(14. Julius Caeser by William Shakespeare) ... ... simultaneously in 1950. Therefore Narnia and all your other examples here have the characteristics of a series.
As for The fellowship of the ring, the other two parts of The Lord of the rings did not come out in 1954 with the first part, so here The Lord of the rings has the ... ... top ones are
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights
Tolkien Fellowship of the Ring
Homer The Odyssey
Tolkien The Two Towers
Tolkien The Return of the King
Gaiman American Gods
Gaiman Good Omens
Mary Shelley Frankenst ... Hey foggidawn
When you started this post you said you were going to read The Fellowship of the Ring did you read it yet? I read it every year, usually in the summer. ... copy
3. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien 13,089
4. The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien 9,434
5. The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien 10,384 copies
6. What to Expect When You're Expecting, 3rd ed. Heidi Murkoff, Arlene Eisenberg and Sandee Hathaw ... ... ate the lion's share myself.
However, I've never tried them roasted, the way they are served by Farmer Maggot's wife in The Fellowship of the Ring*. Have you?
*Hopefully you all recognize the subject of this post. ;o) ... Dark Materials as one book, but I would count The Lord of the Rings as three, possibly four, books -- with only one, The Fellowship of the Ring getting onto my list of the top 10, 100, or 1000.
Don't fear having "too many" titles by one author. In the history of literature (as in all ... Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and Return of the King
... work (Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings, say) would sit at the top of a bundle of its constituent smaller works (The Fellowship of the Rings, The Two Towers and The Return of the King). Perhaps this whole how-to-combine thing could be solved with "horizontal New year, new books!
I'm rereading Lord of the Rings, so have started The Fellowship of the Ring. I have a few YA books that I may read in between -- Little (Grrl) Lost, and The Faerie Path are the ones that come to mind. My first book of the year will be The Fellowship of the Ring, but I had company over yesterday, so am nowhere near done! ... Princess Bride by William Goldman*
2. Atonement by Ian McEwan*
3. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis*
4. The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
5. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby*
6. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis*
7. T ... ... mmediately!*)
With all of that being said, I do have two favourites in 'regular' fantasy:
Tolkien's Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King (The Hobbit is quite a nice little introductory story to the trilogy as well.) and
Pullman's His Da ... Dies the Fire by S.M. Stirling
The Stand by Stephen King
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien ... all too late the cure when ills have gathered strength by long delay."
And Gildor Inglorion, in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings: "The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out."
And! Last na. J.D. Salinger, in his short ... ... The Mysterious Affair at Styles) and have already started what will probably be my 56th (J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring).
The thing is, I've read more than that, but I don't feel like I should consider some books as individual entries into my list. I picked up ... ... Lord of the Rings series, including The Hobbit and The Children of Hurin. Finished The Hobbit and have read half of The Fellowship of the Ring. ... I remember how going from the Shire to Rivendell seemed to match the current season's feeling exactly, and whenever I read Fellowship of the Ring - I am strongly reminded of that time.
... my dad, who is awesome, drove me back into town to get to the bookstore five minutes before it closed so I could get The Fellowship of the Ring. ... the Western Front.
Yes, I agree with having to be in a certain mood to read The Lord of The Rings. I have completed The Fellowship of the Ring but I can't seem to get far in The Two Towers.
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Big Fish by Daniel Wallace
Forrest Gump by Winston Groom
Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
Stardust by Neil Gaiman ... books I don't have. Problem is, I do have it - but it counts as a different work because it's bundled with The Fellowship of the Ring and The Return of the King.
Can this be fixed? Some more that I forgot, or read recently:
The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien.
Re-reads, the Hobbit for the umpteenth time, and the Lord of the Rings for the fourth time, I think. These are books that I enjoy more each time I read them.
Weapon ... Lord of the Rings
All the Harry Potters
Thale's Folly by Dorothy Gilman
Most of the Agatha Christie's
Sprig Muslin by Georgette Heyer (actually several of the Heyer books - A Civil Contract is also a favorite) ... manuals. And you cannot create anthologies (Essential Fantasy Lit in a Mere 128,876 Pages).
Mine (At least for now)
The Lord of the Rings
Zen Flesh Zen Bones
The Bible
The Brothers Karamozov
That Hideous Strength or Perelandra
Delta of Venus
Foucault's P ... ... ime.
Others are:
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
I rarely allow myself the indulgence of rereading books given that there are so many still unread. It can be worthwhile ... ...
The Enormous Crocodile by Roald Dahl
Inkspell by Cornelia Funke
But, with debit card, I got for myself:
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
Guenevere: Queen of the Summer Country
The Knight of the Sacred Lake
The last two by Rosalind ... ... connection with God but wasn't sure quite how to do it; put faith in perspective. Plus it was a ripping good story.
Lord of the Rings by Tolkein - read in my 20s on the bus on my way to work past overturned cars and burned-out buildings and mobs of people threatening violence upon ... Yes, and quite a good review, too! Thanks!
ETA: I love the fact that we're all discussing Jane Austen and Lord of the Rings here on the Harry Potter group! ;-) ... Woods, by Henry David Thoreau: This book has, by far, stayed with me the longest.
I have had major enthusiasms for Lord of the Rings, James Joyce's Ulysses, Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow.
Frank Herbert's Whipping Star and Dosadi Experiment (more so than Dune ... ... now I know that Lolita and The Magician’s Nephew and The Hobbit are happening in Ireland. It’s nice to know that The Lord of the rings and Secret garden are memoirs. Of course, The Stranger by Camus and Silmarillion are about music. The Da Vinci Code seems to be situated ... ... House of Leaves before I get started on my big five. Okay, so I am stalling a little. I'm not looking forward to reading Lord of the Rings, because I hated the movie and I am unsure about Tolkien's writing style.
Gone with the Wind is a great read!! I read it when I was much younger. It's ... ... now I know that Lolita and The Magician’s Nephew and The Hobbit are happening in Ireland. It’s nice to know that The Lord of the rings and Secret garden are memoirs. Of course, The Stranger by Camus and Silmarillion are about music. The Da Vinci Code seems to be situated ... ... you be connected to those who've read all 1000pgs of The lord of the Rings ?
But what about the third volume of Lord of the Rings? If you've read that then there's almost no doubt that you've read the first and second volumes too, so why not combine volume 3 with the whole work? I ... ... in connection with the those who've read 300 pages of new material.
Example. Lord of the Rings: if you give up on the Fellowship of the Ring because the prose is too dull why should you be connected to those who've read all 1000pgs of The lord of the Rings ?
... that) but because I think they'll be boring even though it would do me some good to read them. So here are my five:
1. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
3. The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
4. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
5. 1984 by Geor ... ... making everybody happy with his short stories, check out the Fragile Things reviews...
Also, in Tolkien's Foreword to The Lord Of The Rings, he noted that it was impossible to please everybody, and some aspects which irked a few delighted others.
I guess it could mean something, old Tolk ... Hey, I'm 13 and I LOVE to read.
Here are some of my favorite books:
The Lord of the Rings by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
The Chronicles of Narnia by Clive Staple Lewis
Beowulf
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Artemis Fowl Series by Erin Colfer
The Left Behind S ... Great idea to start this group. I can highly recommend The Fellowship:The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesen Fellowship by Roger Friedland. Now there was a wierd bunch -- not only the resident genius, Wright -- but his nutcase wife, Olgavanna. I found this one a real page-t ... ... ppreciate:
Back before the first movie came out, I decided to finally read the books so I'd be ready. (I'd tried to read The Fellowship of the Ring three or four times previous, but I'd never made it out of the Shire before). I hunkered down, got through the first two, and opened my copy of ... ... Pan: A Fantasy in Five Acts by Sir James Barrie
#2:
The Alabaster Hand by A. N. L. Munby
The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart
S ... I think that spoilers sometimes do spoil. I've read LOTR many times. But if someone had told me before I picked up The Fellowship of the Ring what was to happen in the Mines of Moira, or the upshot in later books --- note that I'm avoiding spoilers --- it certainly wouldn't have had the same ... ... J.K. Rowling
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkein
... functions and the nicer weather.
May
35. Roadwork by Stephen King
36. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
37. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
38. The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
39. The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien The Fellowship of the Ring by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
The Iron Ring by Lloyd Alexander
A Ring of Endless Light by L'Engle
In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner
The Queen's Necklace by Dumas
... and Arthur C. Clarke's 2001 a Space odyssey.
I've also have read George Orwell's 1984, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring (owned, but in a different edition), Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's Tale, Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, Ray Bradb ... |
