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... anymore! I'm disappointed that you didn't enjoy Harrowing the Dragon more, but I enjoyed all your reviews, especially of Two Towers . I'll make a note not to pick Venetia as one of my first Heyers.
No worries about retreading old ground, Chocolate. We Tolkien nuts are still talking ...
... like both Aragorn and Gandalf. A far cry from the flat, one-dimensional character they made him in the films!
I reviewed The Two Towers last night: http://www.librarything.com/review/52026852
I had a great reading weekend which has left me with a backlog of reviews to write. I finished Har ...
Our very own Chocolate has mused upon The Two Towers here: http://www.librarything.com/review/51883912
You may feel "in awe of your stupidity" for not loving Tolkien before, Chocolate, but you've shown your brilliance by being willing to try it once more. Bravo!
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27. The Two Towers , by JRR Tolkien
Book Three, with all the characters except Frodo and Sam, is active, brightly coloured, full of trees and movement, with a large cast of ...
... of the Ring that I finished about two weeks ago (review: http://www.librarything.com/review/51156746). I'm well into The Two Towers now and enjoying it very much.
And I hope to make some good progress in Villette today :)
... Marvin the Martian on it, with which to read Ray Bradbury. The other is a bookmark from Border's, with which to read The Two Towers .
56. The Two Towers , J.R.R. Tolkien (category 9) **
See above; I was bogged down with assigned reads and wanted something familiar and not challenging. I wish my paperback didn't have the movie actors on the cover.
... series) by Jim Murphy
LOTR: The Fellowship of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
In the Woods by Tana French
LOTR: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
LOTR: The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
A Million Little Pieces by ...
... or Tom Holt would be welcome.
Or if I have read Fellowship of the Ring I really don't need to be recommended Two Towers , if for some reason I haven't read it, it is not because I don't know it exists.
Those shouldn't be automatic though, there are series which are not necessary ...
... all three of the books at one go and it was totally worth it! Yeah, it's a bit difficult and I did feel tempted (during The Two Towers , not during The Fellowship of the Ring) to give up too. But if you stick to it you are going to enjoy it a whole lot. My favorite part is The Return of ...
... re-reading The Fellowship of the Ring. I read The Hobbit and The Fellowship a while ago, but I never got to reading The Two Towers or The Return of the King, so I'm starting from the beginning. Tolkien's difficult for me to read, for some reason, and I kind of gave up after The Fellows ...
... like A Wizard of Earthsea , The Tombs of Atuan , and The Farthest Shore would be a trilogy, but The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings actually is not a trilogy. A trilogy is a set of three works, each of which can stand on its own. Obviously this isn't the case with The Lord of the Rings; it tells ONE main story and was only published in three volumes because of the cost of paper after the war. I'm fairly ...
I'm working my way through The Two Towers again. I'm dragging aroundLady Friday and listening to Ptolemy' Gate.
... yself.
I think there's a spectrum of series types, and you have to decide which kind you're writing. At one end, there's The Lord of the Rings and The Book of the New Sun, which are not actually series but multi-volume novels. In this type of books, you're expected to read in order and to ...
... to make it feel real.
In some respects, this is similar to Tolkien. You know, if you think only about the story, The Lord of the Rings is not top notch. Everything in it is simply too archetypical and pat. Yet, his world is probably the most wonderfully-realized fantasy world ever ...
...
James Joyce fills me with gloom;
Tom Jones you say?
No, not today.
And I've neglected Anna K.
Though my bookshelves
Lord of the Rings keeps haunting,
Three tomes 'bout elves
For me is just too daunting.
And so I'm exiled to
Urania's Naughty Room
Because I am subliterate -
I hope to ...
... two-volume set along with The Silmarillion; however, the publisher decided to omit the second volume and instead released The Lord of the Rings in 1954-55 as three books rather than one, for economic reasons" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings
Homer's epic poem The Iliad ...
... like The Bartimeus Trilogy of jonnathan Stroud or the Space Trilogy of C.S. Lewis. Tolkien wrote a novel called The Lord of the Rings , which was published in three volumes over the course of several years. Similarly, Philip Pullman wrote a novel called His Dark Materials, which was ...
... time scale. I would call it an appendix in some ways maybe comparing it to the difference between The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings . But I won't quibble with this if:-
I didn't have time to check but is his science in the capital series included in the list. First book of three ( ...
... te.
So far I have really enjoyed all the books I have finished from the 1001 list. I'm still struggling through the last Lord of the Rings book, so that is the one black mark on the list so far for me. I'm sure I will hit my share of duds along the way. But so far I am having a lot of fun ...
I loved the Lord of the Rings at first, and liked the first half of The Return of the King okay, but the second half just dragged on, like half of the book was epiloguing. I liked the way the movie ended it earlier.
... A Wizard.
There is also Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series and C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia.
Or even Lord of the Rings if you haven't attempted it before.
~ Missy
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkein
But Lord of the Rings was written as one book by the author. It was split into 3 books by the publisher for a marketing decision (too large and costly as a single book).
I have never understood the whole cocktail party thing. Why would you want to discuss a book with someone who has read ...
... that can burn like fire. The first story The Ice is Coming is the simplest, being almost like The Hobbit in relation to The Lord of the Rings . There is a threat to the earth, from some ice creatures, the Ninya, and Wirrun becomes aware of it by paying attention to the earth, and he decides ...
... that can burn like fire. The first story The Ice is Coming is the simplest, being almost like The Hobbit in relation to The Lord of the Rings . There is a threat to the earth, from some ice creatures, the Ninya, and Wirrun becomes aware of it by paying attention to the earth, and he decides ...
... that can burn like fire. The first story The Ice is Coming is the simplest, being almost like The Hobbit in relation to The Lord of the Rings . There is a threat to the earth, from some ice creatures, the Ninya, and Wirrun becomes aware of it by paying attention to the earth, and he decides ...
That piece of advice goes with what I've read about Tolkien and the maps/dates/moon issues he had when writing the Lord of the Rings .
Also on her blog, Elizabeth Moon has made similar comments about the writing of her newest book to come.
... lord loss
ghosts the beguilers
dragons the hobbit
wulver the hunting season
vampires sons of destiny
elves lord of the rings
someone help me
... touchstones.
If you click on the "highlighted" title within the text of the message you go to that work.
For example The Lord of the Rings by Tolkein
... a film.
There was also quite a bit of work at your own pace and choose your own Lit. to review I think I chose Dune and Lord of the Rings .
ACT Year 11 and 12 is in a college separate to the highschools. Highschool in the ACT finish in Year 10. Lots more freedom. I was able to choose ...
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Literary Snobs : At 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, and Beyond (Jul 23, 2009, 10:05pm)
10-11 A Wrinkle in Time; 1066 and all that
13 Lord of the Rings ; a canticle for Leibowitz
15 the Alexandria Quartet; the quiet American
20 be here now - Absences; the structure of scientific revolutions; das capital
25 Limits to Growth - (orig. Club of Rome rpt) ...
... whether of the good or the bad kind. Like Tolkien - if I'd started with The Silmarillion I would never have read The Lord of the Rings , and I love the latter!
...
Cat's Cradle
Breakfast at Tiffany's
To Kill a Mockingbird
Solaris
The Golden Notebook
Lord of the Flies
The Lord of the Rings
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Glass Bees
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles
Veronika Decides to Die
The Poisonwood Bible
Elementary Particles
...
... can refer to it at my leisure as I'm reading. I liked the the maps in A Wizard of Earthsea, the more detailed versions of Lord of the Rings , and Luthiel's Song.
... I know I love and enjoy re-reading, along with some new stuff that I can expect to be thought-provoking. Let's see...
The Lord of the Rings Experience shows I can re-read parts of this every couple of years. Haven't gone end-to-end in quite a while.
The Book of the New Sun Every time ...
Lord of the Rings
The bible
The complete collected poems of either Rudyard Kipling or John Masefield - can't decide
Honestly, I don't know. I know I read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings in fifth grade, but that by point I had already read Brian Daley's Han Solo at Stars' End at least twice. Plus, I'm not sure if I was reading Star Trek novels before that point, and my first of those was Jean Lorr ...
On general principle, I think the first books I download should be the Hitchhiker's Guide and The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings .
... children's fairy stories and the like was The Hobbit, which I thought was charming. I followed it almost immediately by Lord of the Rings "trilogy." That filled me with such wonder & joy I was forever changed, and then so much sadness when it ended that I had to reread it every few years ...
26. The Two Towers - 07-02-2009 TOO Slow. I had to take a break for Harry Potter!
27. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - 07-08-2009 :( why does it have to be the last book, can't she write just one more? "One More Day" by Diamond Rio just popped into my head. The reality is that one ...
... it's no surprise to me there is a list of 1001 Fantasy novels must read...:)
To put in my two cents:
The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings , Gormenghast, Narnia, Conan, Earthsea, Lyonesse, The Demon princes, The chronicles of Thomas covenant, Peter Pan survived so much well ...
... said that there aren't books that all fantasy fans must read "must read." Though, to answer the question, I would also say The Lord of the Rings , which has been mentioned many times. I also would put Harry Potter on the list. I think it will last past all the movies because of the sheer ...
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien read in high school
... since a book actually made my heart-rate speed up like that one did.)
4. Camber the Heretic - Rhys's death.
5. The Two Towers - Pippin and the palantir
... ond.
There's always The Hobbit -- elves feature in several parts of the book and are, of course, even more prominent in The Lord of the Rings .
In adult fantasy, I think the Shannara series by Terry Brooks has elves in it. I have to admit that I haven't read it, though.
From looking ...
... awe and envy (and well, yeah, admiration too, okay) *grin*
Lucky you. I love Pauline Baynes' illustrations, my first Lord of the Rings book was illustrated by her and consequently defines Middle Earth to me (as well as Narnia). That is an absolutely wonderful find. I am constantly on ...
... to Germans, and certainly able to see the profound artistry even in books I loathe (eg, Death on the Installment Plan, Lord of the Rings ), this book...well...I think it's high praise to say it made me feel unclean.
>162 Hi Rachael! Welcome! And yeah, I think our threadies here on the 75 ...
2> Same here. I've given up midway through The Two Towers twice now too.
... page I was swept up in the story again. I'd forgotten how funny it is in parts (especially in comparison to the tedious The Lord of the Rings , which I've never been able to get through - I'm sure that's my loss, and no offence meant to LOTR fans), especially the first chapter.
I found a ...
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11. Abramo's Gift (April)
12. Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer (June)
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... really liked the Poison Study trilogy and was impressed that the second book didn't feel much like a second book. Ok, so The Two Towers was unnecessarily lengthy and I won't re-read it (yawn). Oooh, ooh, a favorite: I really liked The Secret Texts trilogy, starting with A Diplomacy of Wolves ...
159. Rasselas by Samuel Johnson. Boredy McBoredBored, mayor of Boredville.
160. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien- what can I add to what has already been said about these books? They're amazing. Uplifting. Stinkin' awesome. Make me wanna kill something evil with a really big ...
>21.
I understand the plight, and it irks me that though I have The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers , and The Return of the King, I still get recommendations to get The Lord of the Rings. Even if I bought a box of books, and there was an ISBN on the box (like there is with the ...
I agree with Lord of the Rings , Narnia, and Earthsea. But I would also say Stardust, from Neil Gaiman, most of his work is a definite must read. Certainly the Harry Potter books. And Howl's Moving Castle from Diane Wynne Jones.
... The Princess of Cleves through the same medium. Almost finished with The Fellowship of the Ring as I work through the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
The Lord of the Rings
Madame Bovary
The Mill on the Floss
Les Miserables
Moll Flanders
Mrs Dalloway
Native Son
Of Mice and Men
The Old Man and the Sea
Out of Africa
... of the passages are taken. This is a woman who is truly in love with fiction. I'll be referring back to this often.
The Two Towers - Tolkien.
The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst.
Why: Booker Prize 2004.
This is a very good book that I found compelling and with a complexity ...
I'm reading Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette by dailylit.com and also the Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
the two towers by j. r. r. tolkien
Just finished the second disc of the Two Towers Extended Edition this morning. I can't help but chuckle when I think about how many times I've watched these movies and yet I haven't actually read the books yet! However, they are on my summer reading list. It'll be interesting to see how they ...
... has some fascinating old stuff, including books by the metre (to make your bookshelves look pretty). Found a copy of the Lord of the Rings (3 in 1) that my dad gave me to read when I was 11, which I loaned to a friend and they never returned. Was able to give to my dad and stop feeling ...
... what I'd LOVE to see are CK facts ON character pages. That way, you could have a character page for, say, "Aragorn," (from The Lord of the Rings , for anybody who has, apparently, been living under a rock since 1955), and on his page, you could have CK facts like "also known as", putting "Strider ...
... Night a Traveler and The Wind-up Bird Chronicles when I'm feeling down or sad - they always pick me up. And the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Sometimes, I reread books from when I was really little, like Good Night, Gorilla - board books take about 20 seconds to read, but always make ...
... Wishsong of Shanara - these are very readable classic fantasy. The first in the series is a thinly veiled re-telling of Lord of the Rings but the others are original and they all make you think (or at least they make me think). I particularly liked "The Wishsong" because it explored the ...
The ones I've read the most are:
1. Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
2. His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
3. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
4. The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
5. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
I love re-reading and do it quite often - recently I' ...
The Birthgrave by Tanith Lee
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
The Nightmare Factory by Thomas Ligotti
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula le Guin
... by William T. Vollmann
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
The Lord of the Rings
Women And Men by Joseph McElroy
The Rise And Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
Swan Song ...
... Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson (turned me into a poet)
The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
I also have fallen in love with Jean Craighead George for childrens stories.
... the Hatchet books by Gary Paulsen (I read those at age 11 and 12).
The Hobbit by Tolkein is a great way to get into Lord of the Rings - my teacher read that out loud to my class when I was 10... I was about 14 before I tackled Lord of the Rings .
He's a little young now but To Kill ...
... movie based on this book is my favourite movie
To Kill a Mockingbird - a perfect book that everyone really should read
The Lord of the Rings - a book that I reread yearly
If This Is a Man - very powerful Holocaust memoir
All Quiet on the Western Front - a brutally honest look at ...
5> Whether or not The Two Towers is part of the Lord of the Rings series or one part of a book, the Sherlock Holmes stories were distinctly published as a series of individual books, and the series can and should include those. I'm not a particular fan of the ACD short stories littering the ...
... short stories and novels (which the current list is far short of) or just one entry the complete sherlock holmes.
Is the two towers part of the lord of the rings series? Or just one part of lord of the rings?
... myself to say one is "better" than the other, at least with that book.
I can say that I enjoyed the movie versions of Lord of the Rings far better than the books. Yes, Tolkien is a linguistics professor and knows his Norse mythology like nobody's bidness, still ... reading 700+ pages that ...
... Jordan overcomplicated things as he went along. And this comes from someone who is mindlessly devoted to books as large as The Lord of the Rings , Middlemarch, and Les Miserables.
... different, so i never stopped to think about it. i noticed the other day though that her bookshelf was full of Eragon and Lord of the Rings and Terry Goodkind and i wondered where all the sf was.
turns out, she hardly reads ANY sf at all, it's almost all fantasy. she just thought they were ...
... Are you only considering literature based on RPGs, or are you also including literature which may have inspired RPGs (Lord of the Rings , or the comic series Mouse Guard)?
How dilute are you planning to go? A novel like Eve Forward's Villains by Necessity definitely draws on RPG ...
... Although that PC RPG rather than board games.
Does it matter which came first? the book or the game?
There are a few Lord of the Rings games but I'm not sure of the makers.
... (particularly Beauty), L.M. Montgomery (particularly The Blue Castle), The Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings , the Mitford series, Dorothy Sayers mysteries . . . I could go on and on.
It really depends what I'm in the mood for. Sometimes I want a specific ...
...
Just forget about Harry Potter and Twilight this is waaay better. Rothfuss' novel can easily compete with books as Lord of the Rings and this is about as good as high fantasy gets. An imaginative, powerful and compelling story that is exceptionally well told.
Just buy it, read it and ...
... and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
35. Little Prince
36. Little Women
37. Lolita
38. Lord of the Flies
39. The Lord of the Rings
4o. Moby Dick
41. The Name of the Rose
42. Nineteen Eighty-Four
43. Oliver Twist
44. Once and Future King
45. Perfume
46. The Pictu ...
... and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
verses
The Hobbit
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
well...I picked up and immediately put down Three Musketeers and part one of The Lord of the Rings , couldn't figure out what mood I was in. Decided on Foundation by Isaac Asimov. Also reading Tono Bungay and Tarzan of the Apes by daily lit.
... rning!
I agree with Shanra, I learned a lot of new, though not very useful, new words reading both The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings . They are maybe a bit hard at first, specially if you are not a native English speaker as happens to me, but once you get into the tone and writing ...
#52 The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkein (re-read)
My least favorite of the trilogy, which makes it a 4 star book, not a 5. I don't like how they split up the Frodo/Sam story and the Aragorn et al story. I like the parts with Elves, and Men, and Gandalf, so I often will skip the last half of ...
4.) Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
676 / 1008 pages - 67%
5.) Hartmann von Aue by Christoph Cormeau
130 / 244 pages - 53%
17.) Alltagsleben im Mittelalter by Otto Borst
612 / 612 pages - 100%
18.) Essen und Trinken im Mittelalter by Ernst Schubert
18 / 30 ...
Hi amy-sue - welcome to the challenge and I'm glad that you persevered with The Two Towers . I had a similar thing with Italian Folktales earlier this year and set myself a task of reading 10 tales every two days (about 30pages) and I flew through the book once I did this.
This week I finished 3 books that I am reporting here and a few guilty pleasures that I am keeping mum.
20. The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien. I finally finished it. I ended up not hating it once I got into it, but I didn't love it and I don't see myself ever reading it again. Now to the ...
My favorite would have to be Aargorn from Lord of the Rings - of course picturing him as Viggo Mortenson just makes it perfect.
... and Men by John Steinbeck
14.Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
15.The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
16.The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
17.To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
18.Cat and Mouse by Gunter Grass
19.The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
20.Watch ...
... then start it over.
Also, I have to say about Penman's books--as far as I'm concerned they are one work, sort of like Lord of the Rings and the way it's divided. I just couldn't figure out how to do a review of what felt to me like part of a book! It's just a superb job on Penman's part. ...
... today?
Oh I don't know
31) What is your desert island book?
Um...it's a toss up for The Bible, Pride and Prejudice or The Lord of the Rings
32) And... what are you reading right now?
Reinventing Shakespeare for Children and Young Adults, edited by Naomi J. Miller and Krakatoa by Si ...
... pass!
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Stephenie Meyer.
31) What is your desert island book?
The Lord of the Rings , maybe? Don't make me pick!
32) And... what are you reading right now?
The Liar by Stephen Fry and The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmit ...
... Dr. Farmer's personal approach to medicine and shows Dr. Farmer in a very human light. I thought it was neat that he loved The Lord of the Rings (and its influence could be seen throughout), and especially liked the story about how he asked a librarian to find another story "just like this one." ...
... Dr. Farmer's personal approach to medicine and shows Dr. Farmer in a very human light. I thought it was neat that he loved The Lord of the Rings (and its influence could be seen throughout), and especially liked the story about how he asked a librarian to find another story "just like this one." ...
... of a book that once you started reading it was too gruesome to put down out of morbid curiosity.
I keep putting down The Two Towers just because I'm not a fantasy person and I've had a personal bias against it for years. My husband loves Tolkien and I promised him I would read the Lord ...
... Jewish man.
I just find that wrong on so many levels. I think I will give this one a pass.
Why are you avoiding The Two Towers ?
... Monte Cristo but I'm finding I need to break it up a little bit and I'm finding any excuse in the book to avoid picking up The Two Towers ....
... Alcott
18. Oblomov by Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov
Currently reading The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien.
After listing them, I'm further behind then I thought.....better start reading faster.
1) What author do you own the most books by?
Tanith Lee (26)
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
not sure - The Two Towers , but one is in Russian.
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions? nope
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love ...
... Silmarillion
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Pages: 416
16. The Fellowship of the Ring
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Pages: 432
17. The Two Towers
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Pages: 352
18. The Return of the King
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Pages: 448
19. Eyes of the Dragon
by Stephen King
Pages: 384
...
... of the Ring, I decided to watch the movie (the extended one) last night and finished the movie. Now I am watching The Two Towers (also extended). :)
... day, reading it right through my HS classes (the old slip the paperback behind the textbook trick). She took a week to read The Two Towers . I took one day, again reading throughout the school day. So for The Return of the King, I TOOK it, read it in one day (same methodology) and gave it back ...
I'm currently splitting my time between Middle Earth in The Two Towers and alternate universe England in 1985 with Thursday Next in The Eyre Affair. I'm on a reread kick....
... Greig - reading
4.Punk Monk - Andy Freeman - to read
5.Prisoner of birth - jeffrey Archer - to read
6.Two towers - JRR Tolkein - to read (again)
Started off slow, but getting going now. I always enjoy Lee Child, although my wife and I often laugh at his style:
"Do ...
The second half of The Two Towers is about Frodo and Sam right? I find that the most boring too - I know Frodo is the main character, but man, is he annoying! I have read all three parts of The Lord of the Rings so many times that I just skip over the parts I don't like now - Tom Bombadil, ...
today:
#8 The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
Haven't had much time to read, too many exams :-(
I must say, I didn't like this nearly as much as the first book, or the movie. The plot of the first half is exciting; the second half is tedious. I have a tendency to not like the middle ...
... Meany John Irving
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
The Two Towers J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
I, Robot Isaac Asimov
Animal Farm George Orwell ...
... Point - Dan Brown (check!)
Digital Fortress - Dan Brown (check!)
Fellowship of the Ring - JRR Tolkien (check!)
The Two Towers - JRR Tolkien
The Return of the King - JRR Tolkien
The City and the Stars - Susan Smit
Tales & Poems of EA Poe - David Pinching
Pride and Prejudice ...
... Beside Me, Ann Rule (reread 8/18/09) ***
7. The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien (reread 9/30/09) ***
8. The Two Towers , J.R.R. Tolkien (reread 10/10/09) **
9. The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien
Re-reads
1. Fellowship of the Rings
2. The Two Towers
3. Return of the King
4. My Side of the Mountain
5. The Mysterous Island
6. The Golden Compass
7. The Subtle Knife
8. The Amber Spyglass
9. The Count of Monte Cristo
Re-reads
1. Fellowship of the Ring
2. The Two Towers
3. Return of the King
4. My Side of the Mountain
5. The Mysterous Island
6. The Golden Compass √
7. The Subtle Knife √
8. The Amber Spyglass √
9. The Count of Monte Cristo
Quest for Lost Heroes by David Gemmell
Redwall by Brian Jacques
Sparkling Cyanide by Agatha Christie
The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag by R. A. Heinlein
... a combination of two different canonical titles: e.g., If someone wanted to combine The Fellowship of the Ring with The Two Towers , they should get an alert telling them that CK indicates that they are about to do a doubtful combination (triggered by the fact that both of those each have ...
*Double posting*
... anything of his until I was in my 30s.
Interesting thing: Enjoyed The Hobbit. Enjoyed The Lord of the Rings. Found The Two Towers lagging, but still good enough to finish. Absolutely abhorred The Return of the King.
I found the latter seemed to be a 'let's get this bloody trilogy ...
... to Lorien
9: The Great River
10: The Breaking of the Fellowship
We also need to discuss when to start the reread of The Two Towers . . . any ideas?
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
352 pages / 1954 (1993) / 5 stars / Fantasy / 10-17-08 / audiobook
As with previous books in The Lord of the Rings series that I've read, ...
... of the Rings vs. boxed sets - entered as such (and people will do so, like it or not) - of The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers , AND The Return of the King.
... copies of The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy I read The Hobbit first and then The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and then The Return of the King. I would've missed an awful lot if I had skipped The Hobbit and started immediately on The Fellowship Of The Ring. I was ...
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Murakami, The Two Towers (read aloud with hubby) and V for Vendetta as my toilet reading.
... chocolate book, though I've only read one chapter so far. About reading with the group, eh, not this time. I'm already to The Two Towers and I read pretty fast. This is about my fourth time through the books, but I find new quotes or special ideas and thoughts every time. Thanks though!
I finished Memoirs of a Geisha, loved it. Am starting The Two Towers and Ender's Game, except my OH stole EG out from under my nose so he could read it. Still reading my histories.
The Brandenburg Hotel by Pauline Glen Winslow
Spence at Marlby Manor by Michael Allen
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
At Pooh's Corner by A.A. Milne
Johnny Under Ground by Patricia Moyes
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The Brandenburg Hotel by Pauline Glen Winslow
Spence at Marlby Manor by Michael Allen
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
At Pooh's Corner by A.A. Milne
Johnny Under Ground by Patricia Moyes
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... put it so plainly that it was much easier to digest.
#11 I agree with the decided difference in character for Faramir in Two Towers . That was one of the things I had a big problem with in the movie. Likewise, how Boromir was treated at times. Or the creation of quotable movie lines, such ...
... most of all is when films give characters different personality traits from the book. Notable examples would be Faramir in The Two Towers and Peter in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Just to end on a positive note, two film adaptations I did like were Girl with a Pearl Earring and ...
Single digits:
The One Tree
The Two Towers
Two-Part Invention
The Book of Three
Slaughterhouse Five
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Dilbert: Seven Years of Highly Defective People
Seventh Son
Double digits:
The Wind's twelve Quarters
Seventeen
Babel ...
... sort of contains/contained in category. Many (if not most) people would know that The Fellowship of the Ring , The Two Towers The Return of the King are sometimes published in a single volume as The Lord of the Rings . Many users might have observed that ...
Yes! The Two Towers , theatrical version, at 9:00 on Saturday!
(I'll update the first post on this thread later -- just realized it hasn't been updated since the latest survey.)
By the way, did anyone end up in the chat room this past Saturday (7/5)? If so, tell me what you watched, and I'l ...
Having finished and reviewed Two Towers I'm now onto the return of the king hurray no more crawling in the swamps of the dead marshes.
Not sure what to take with me for a week's holiday though.
Two Towers starting today, having finished Fellowship of the ring over breakfast.
... 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 she got some grocery shopping done. ...
... weekend. Was anyone planning on watching on the 5th of July?
If we do skip next weekend, the following weekend will be The Two Towers , followed by A Room with a View and then Becoming Jane . However, if we're on for next weekend, several of us would change our votes, so the order ...
... 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.
... 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 any information. I DO ...
... 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.
Total so far: 8383 pages / 41.915 200-page books
... Lion, the Witch, and the Wardobe, Sense and Sensibility
50% / 4 votes :
Becoming Jane , A Room with a View, The Two Towers
37.5% / 3 votes :
Galaxy Quest , Little Women
25% / 2 votes :
Eragon, The Golden Compass, Pride and Prejudice (Knightley version)
1 ...
... the Witch, and the Wardobe, Sense and Sensibility
50% / 4 votes :
Becoming Jane , A Room with a View , The Two Towers
37.5% / 3 votes :
Galaxy Quest, Little Women
25% / 2 votes :
Eragon, The Golden Compass , Pride and Prejudice (Knightley version)
1 ...
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Warwick Castle by David Green
Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
The Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir
... version, 4 votes)
Eragon (3 votes)
I have a couple of polls to make since suggestions have been made to add Two Towers , The Return of the King, and The Pirates of the Carribean movies to the mix. I'll think I'm about to fall asleep so I'll be sure to try to get polls up ...
I finished The Two Towers last night. I had forgotten that it ends in a cliffhanger! (Fortunately, I've already read the third book. Multiple times.)
;-)
I have The Cobra King of Kathmandu checked out to read, so I may read it before diving in to The Return of the King.
... probably Book 5 (first half of The Return of the King, although I've a soft spot for that delightful scene at the end of The Two Towers when Sam is observing Gollum and Frodo.
5. A Quest Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic - a most excellent volume of short stories from the top names in ...
... hiding a power that she yet felt. For a moment still as stone she stood, then turning swiftly she was gone."
--The Two Towers , J.R.R. Tolkien
... I've been meaning to read it for a long time. And I'm trying to get back on track with my LotR reread, so I picked up The Two Towers again.
... combined with those in long series where I've re-read the entire series at the release of each new installment,
Lord of the rings
foreigner
Magician
Master of whitestorm
storm front
However I woudn't say they were the best 5, although they are all worthy contenders.
... 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 beyond me, so I opted for these softcovers instead. They ...
60. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
I have never read this book or any of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I had tried to watch the movies, but didn't like them. My husband was trying to get our 10 year old to read this since he loves fantasy and sci fi books. Instead I read it. It is a ...
My mother purchased me The Lord of the Rings because she liked the drawings (heraldry) on the side of the $5 gift box.
What more can I say?
Still working my way through Dune by Frank Herbert. After that, I'll engage in reading The Lord of the Rings or stick to my original plan and read The Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb, beginning with Assassin's Apprentice.
movie covers, I have the lord of the rings movie covers. for me it depends on how much I liked the movie and if I thought that the movie did a good job of following the book, than I might consider the movie cover. I would never, for example buy the movie cover of Ella Enchanted because the ...
... Queen of Babble by Meg Cabot (308 pages)
39. The Seduction of an Unknown Lady by Samantha James (360 pages)
40. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien(327 pages)
Total page count: 14,060
40/120 Books
I realized I actually am still on track--to hit 120 I'v ...
If I were reading it, I wouldn't add it to my '1001 books' and just say I read the two towers because I wouldn't read the third one straight afterwards. I'd put it into a different section. Not sure which one though..
easiest reply to Lord of the Rings would be Lord of the Flies, but its been done...
so having read LOTR, I'll offer Life of Pi...
... going to restart the game. Let's take Jazz off the table and get the volley going again with something easy. How about The Lord of the Rings . And please excuse my mixed metaphor.
Not many books, but a good two/three:
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
and oh yeah: Dune by F. Herbert, earlier this month.
My my, Lord of the Rings is a thick one. It contains the entire trilogy and is even thicker than Dune, which itself is a ...
My first favorite is of course Lord of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein.
And the second The Belgariad and The Malloreon by David Eddings :Reading a different world that does not involve elves or dragons, and world with different type of magic, is the main reason for being my favorite.
Th ...
... eauty
The Handmaid's Tale
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hobbit (2-3 times)
Les Miserables (2 times)
Lord of the Rings (2 times)
The Lovely Bones
Never Let Me Go
NIGHT ...again, no touchstone?
Nine Stories
The Outsiders
Pride and Prejudice
The Princess Bri ...
... polled as to which of the ten was their favorite:
Bible - 34%
Harry Potter - 17%
To Kill a Mockingbird - 13%
Lord of the Rings - 9%
Catcher in the Rye - 7%
Gone with the Wind - 5%
The Da Vinci Code - 5%
The Stand - 4%
Angels and Demons - 3%
Atlas Shrugged - 3%
The Bible is my favorite book, and I've read it several times. Lord of the Rings is in my top ten, GWtW was frustrating for me, and I never heard of the book quoted as the favorite of the west coast. I love to take polls and surveys, but don't pay too much attention to the results because they ...
... memory is as clear as I can get it.
Also ordered three more books so my TBR mount little, can grow. Here they are:
-Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
-The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
-The war of the worlds by H.G. Wells
The last two are re-reads from a couple of years ago, and T ...
Following on from #25...
The Lord of the Rings did win the BBC's Big Read poll, which ran in 2002. It worked as a phone and text vote, meaning a much larger sample than this poll, but possibly skewed by multiple votes from uberfans. I'm not telling you how many votes I cast for The Hitch Hik ...
Following on from #25...
The Lord of the Rings did win the BBC's Big Read poll, which ran in 2002.
It worked as Jody describes, except that only one book per author was allowed in the final Top 20 poll, presumably to stop it being JK Rowling dominated. Hence the 4 Potter books that had ...
... in the number two favorite book," Harris said in a statement announcing the results.
Men chose J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and women selected Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind as their second-favorite book, according to the online poll.
But the second choice for 1 ...
According to a poll conducted with 2,513 people the Bible is america's favorite book. Followed by Lord of the Rings for men and Gone with the Wind for women.
I don't know....it just seems all so sterotypical to me. For the full story go here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080408/lf_nm_lif ...
... work. However, it was long enough and involved enough that I counted it as one of my books. So, for this challenge, count The Lord of the Rings as three books.
... they are all each individual books. I want the credit! My charting might look like this:
Books from the 1001 list:
1. Lord 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 ...
Our Rosie is named after Rosie Cotton from The Lord of the Rings. We're planning on adding a Sam at some point, but it will probably be short for Samantha, as the vet recommended we add another female and not a male to our household.
... side we have clear works that all accept are Science fiction, Foundation for example. On the other we have clear Fantasy Lord of the rings must be typical.
In the middle we have a big grey fuzzy area, some at the fantasyish side, some on the SciFi ish side, and a few deliberately astride ...
I put this in the CK and WikiThing group with no response, and its related to this feature so I'll try here.
The Lord of the Rings has around 280 characters listed in CK. Now that you can make it a column in your library does anyone really want to see that? I can see wanting to list all of ...
The Lord of the Rings has around 280 characters listed in CK. Now that you can make it a column in your library does anyone really want to see that? I can see wanting to list all of them but maybe we should split the field into major and minor characters to make listing them in your catalog ...
... 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 characteristics of a series.
"What if someone doesn't ...
... lightness of being 2 lists
16) Hamlet 2 lists
17) The bible 2 lists
18) The epic of Gilgamesh 2 lists
19) Lord of the rings 2 lists
20) Le Petit Prince 2 lists
21) Anna Karenina 2 lists
22) Les Miserables 2 lists
23) Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
24) Jane Eyre 2 ...
How about The Lord of the Rings ? Plenty of battles, assumes a command hierarchy, Frodo and Sam on a sacrificial 'suicide mission', fierce loyalties, the entire thing a giant chess game between Gandalf/Aragorn and Sauron, etc.
... and then it got steadily darker. To me, it gave off the same sense of impending doom (influence of the World War II?) that The Lord of the Rings had.
I'd love to know if this "things start out great and then it all gets steadily worse" is typical in re-tellings of Arthurian legend.
Lord of the rings Trilogy,
the hobbit
god... I love fantasy but i'm not sure why these books are love.
... by Sarah Ban Breathnach
3) Complete Blake
4) Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
5) Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
6) Lord of the Rings by Tolkien
7) Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
8) Artist's way by Julia Cameron
9) A Monastic Breviary by Order of the Holy Cross
10) Omnium Gatheru ...
... r):
1. 1984
2. The Bible
3. The Iliad
4. The Epic of Gilgamesh
5. Hamlet
6. The Chronicles of Narnia
7. Lord of the Rings
8. Pride and Prejudice
9. His Dark Materials
10. Le Petit Prince
11. The Odyssey
12. The Theban Plays
13. Romeo and Juliet
14. Anna K ...
... we have:
War and Peace - 4 lists
The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy - 4 lists
His dark materials - 3 lists
Lord of the rings - 3 lists
Pride and Prejudice - 3 lists
The secret history - 2 lists
Nineteen eighty four - 2 lsits
And then there were none - 2 lists
To ...
... by Sarah Ban Breathnach
3) Complete Blake
4) Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
5) Fictiones by Jorge Luis Borges
6) Lord of the Rings by Tolkien
7) Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
8) Artist's way by Julia Cameron
9) A Monastic Breviary by Order of the Holy Cross
10) Omnium Gatheru ...
... Tolkien stuff in Swedish as well as in English, which isn't that strange. I got both the old and the new translation of Lord of the Rings , so those are in triplicate.
The most annoying duplicates must be Ray Bradbury - The Silver Locusts / The Martian Chronicles, and Anne McCaffr ...
... for now:
1984
The Bible
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Iliad
Hamlet
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Odyssey
Lord of the Rings
Le Petit Prince
Pride and Prejudice
His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
It, Stephen King
Lord of the Rings , JRR Tolkien
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
And then there were none, Agatha Christie
Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
Atonement, Ian McEwan
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
Animal F ...
29: Storeetllr,
I had the same trouble with The Lord of the Rings , Dune and Stranger in a Strange Land. Had re-read them all several times through the years, but recently haven't been able too.
... 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 Frankenstein
Of which I've actually read the Tolkiens and ...
... the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.'"
My dad first read me The Hobbit (and The Lord of the Rings ) when I was young enough (about six?) to be really afraid of Smaug, and that may be why the chapters with Smaug are still by far my favorite in the ...
... looks all prettiful.
I have "special" copies of all the Harry Potter books, Eragon and Eldest as well as box sets of Lord of the Rings . I will be working my way to "special" copies of the Outlander series next.
I have 4 copies of Lord of the Rings and 3 copies of The Hobbit. I have boxed sets, paperbacks (reading copies), and hardcovers. I bought the hardcover set with Alan Lee's artwork. Like Kassyunne, I sometimes buy a book, get it home, and discover another copy. Thank heavens for Librarything ...
... J. Cherryh and Isaac Asimov.
Tolkien has almost always bored me silly. I was unimpressed in '78 when I tried to read The Lord of the Rings and I was just as unimpressed when I tried to read it after the first movie came out.
... had they included it, they would have counted the whole work as one book (as they've done in several other places, such as Lord of the Rings )
... started Little Lord Fauntleroy, which I'm using for bedtime reading, and my LotR reread has stalled a little way into The Two Towers -- I'm just not in the mood for it right now, but I'm sure I'll get back into it soon.
The Folio Society Edition of Tolkien, J.R.R's The Lord of the Rings just arrived. The old, flaky paperback version can now go meet its ancestors 8-)
16: Vonini
I did the same thing with Hobbit And The Lord of the Rings But have never read them. I always have, (or go buy one), the paper backs around to re-read.
I haven't read
The Lord of the Rings
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
To Kill a Mockingbird
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
all of which are on my tbr
Am I the only one who had a huge crush on Shadowfax from The Lord of the Rings ? When I was a kid I had a Breyer Andalusian stallion model that I used to pretend was Shadowfax. I would make him gallop all around the living room, carrying Gandalf to safety.
I got to see the horse who played ...
... and the Iron Tower trilogy would be more in the popcorn category even though, or perhaps because, they're so much in the Lord of the Rings knock-off vein.
Or maybe not. Darn it, now I'm not sure!
http://www.revolutionsf.com/article.php?id=953
Could The Lord of the Rings just be a desperate clinging on to the values of Britain's past, in the face of the First World War (possibly even the Second)?
Is it possible that High Fantasy is a continuation of the kind of British "sentimentali ...
I have the Silmarilion and I haven't got the guts to read it. I LOVED the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings and I have heard so many negative opinions of the Silmarilion that I'm afraid to read it.
... enjoyed Into Thin Air so I thought this might be interesting too.
Silmarillion Does this one come anywhere close to Lord of the Rings ?
Revenge of the Whale I liked Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower but I'm thinking I should have gotten In the Heart of the Sea instead.
Froze ...
#48 -- Yes, and have started The Two Towers . I'm reading it mostly at bedtime, so am taking it fairly slowly.
I've also given in to an urge to reread L.M. Montgomery's Emily books (Emily of New Moon, etc.) -- inexplicably my least-favorite Montgomery, but still good. I'm taking them rather ...
...
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1. Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook, Dawn J. Ranck and Phyllis Pellman Good 19 copies on LT
2. The Two Towers , J.R.R. Tolkien. 9,783 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 Fellow ...
... a hard time getting in to it at first, but am enjoying it now. I'm also working on my leisurely rereading of LotR, with The Two Towers .
Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers , and Return of the King
... say) would sit at the top of a bundle of its constituent smaller works (The Fellowship of the Rings , The Two Towers The Return of the King ). Perhaps this whole how-to-combine thing could be solved with "horizontal bundles".
In horizontal bundles, ...
I'm in, I'm always looking for a new reading challenge, and this will help me knock off some books on my TBR Pile.
Here's the topics/books I've come up with so far...
1001 Books to Read Before I Die:
1. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
2. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
3. Alias Grace by Ma ...
... 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 Dark Materials - The Golden Com ...
... skind
77. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
78. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
79. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
80. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
81. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
82. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Ver ...
Just so it doesn't forgotten, you *also* dont want to get recommended the Lord of the Rings when you own the constituent books. (I'm reminded of this because WebScription.net does the one but not the other - well, when you substitute "offer to buy" for "recommend".)
Umm ... and here we have ...
... to you -- but which you have as part of larger works.
How would it work?
A classic example is having The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring , The Two Towers , and The Return of the King . In this ...
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
... That's like a mother choosing among her children!
BUT I will do my best here... I have the 50th Anniversary edition of The Lord of the Rings and it really is a gorgeous edition. Gilt-edged pages, leatherbound, lovely illustrations, and not a single typo to be found (you would be amazed how ...
... this day despite not having read any of them in over a decade.
For epic fantasy I first loved Wizard's First Rule and Lord of the Rings .
... and started Eragon:Inheritance by Christopher Paolini. What a talent that young man has! Clearly owes plenty to Lord of the Rings and especially The Dragon Riders of Pern series but its still his book. He was what--17 when he finished?
I totally agree. I hated the The Lord of the Rings books with movie art. I have nice illustrated one I bought before the movies were out and love it. Same for the hobbit or generally any other book like that. At least the harry potter books haven't done that as much, it's very easy to get a ...
... rables
Gone with the Wind
Ladies of the Club
I'm going to work on the following classics:
Last of the Mohicans
Lord of the Rings - yes, believe it or not, I've never read it
A Tale of Two Cities
Sense and Sensibility
Great Expectations -I'm actually half way thru this but ...
... regular-length books worth!).
Where are we with long books from the 1001 list so far? Let's see . . . War and Peace, Lord of the Rings , Don Quixote, Gone with the Wind, Les Miserables, Infinite Jest, U.S.A., Cryptonomicon, Suitable Boy and The Taebek Mountains (the last ...
... since it's a trilogy.
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Yeah, but it's listed as one "book." And that reminds me, there is also The Lord of the Rings , which is three books that I'm sure total well over 1000 pages.
Do these make up for the very short books and short stories on the list? Isn't it ...
I didn't read The Lord of the Rings for years, because my ex-husband insisted I had to read The Hobbit first, and I just couldn't get into it. I am probably weird though, ;-). (Oh, and I finally decided I could read LOTR whenever I wanted to, and I didn't miss the stuff from The Hobbit at all. ...
I didn't read The Lord of the Rings for years, because my es-husband insisted I had to read The Hobbit first, and I just couldn't get into it. I am probably weird though, ;-). (Oh, and I finally decided I could read LOTR whenever I wanted to, and I didn't miss the stuff from The Hobbit at all. ...
... sense here.
Some people will consider even a mention of a character's name in a given book to be a spoiler (Gandalf in The Two Towers , for instance.) But there are some cases where revealing a character's alter ego is a *major* plot point -- there's a point in Orca by Steven Brust (the ...
... H. W. F. Saggs, The Maya by Norman Hammond, The Aztecs by Nigel Davies, The Incas by Nigel Davies)
The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
Which would you suggest?
I'm leaning toward the Proust, because it presents the Enright revisions to the Scott Moncrieff/Kilmart ...
Decided to read the entire 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.
... Strange And Mr. Norrell Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Napoleon Dynamite - I like nerds sometimes.
Legolas - Lord of The Rings the movie. The book version I found creepy until I saw Orlando Bloom.
Denzel Washington's character in American Gangster
I might consider switching ...
... and that's enough. Having Doctor Doolittle suprised and afraid when the animals talk to him...arrrgggghhhh!
I like the Lord of the Rings a lot - very rich. The first movie was pretty good - I disagreed with some of his choices (skip the wizard wirework, I want to see the trip to Weathert ...
... which is Christopher Tolkien's compilation of all his father's writings which preceded the publication of The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings . It includes all of the earliest incarntions of the characters & plots as well as the Genesis of Middle Earth itself. The War of the Jewels is ...
>23 Yes, I agree that some fantasy blockbusters are actually single stories (like Lord of the Rings ), and count as "thick" novels. I enjoyed Otherland and Memory, Sorrow and Thorn . But some authors stretch the boundary of what can be considered a single novel: I think Robert Jord ...
... Campbell 's The Hero with a Thousand Faces
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
Rosalind Miles's Guenevere series
(* Counting as a single book, sorry!)... but they are the ones that had the most impact on me when I read them:
1) Grapes of Wrath
2) The Glass Castle
3) The Lord of the Rings
4) It
5) Island of the Blue Dolphins
6) Angela's Ashes
7) To Kill a Mockingbird
8) Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
9) Ja ...
As odd as this sounds, the autumn often reminds me of my first reading of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings . For some reason, I ended up catching pneumonia in October of 1973. I was sick with it for over a week. And, my Mom, feeling badly for me, while she was at Rosedale, ended up ...
... it said "The enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings" on the cover. So I went home from the library with The Hobbit, The Two Towers , and The Return of the King. Um.
Fortunately my dad, who is awesome, drove me back into town to get to the bookstore five minutes before it closed so I ...
Tried to read The Silmarillion after reading the {hobbit, Lord of the rings , Farmer Giles of Ham about four times, but could not get into it.
... story -- but I don't think that appeals more so to men. I certainly liked it (female).
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Of course Lord of the Rings is masculine . . . hundreds and hundreds of pages and nary a female character. How can it be anything but? I know lots of women like LotR, and before I ...
... of Wrath right now. All of those are in the embarassed to have not read category for me.
Now, I can't say that I think The Lord of the Rings is masculine. It is an adventure, a quest story -- but I don't think that appeals more so to men. I certainly liked it (female).
I definately ...
The Lord of the Rings also has the willful princess (leaving aside the hobbit qualification) - if Eowyn doesn't qualify, I don't know who does.
Jumping into the YA fantasy, anything by Tamora Pierce rides the line between cliche and good archetypes. Alanna (willful farm-noble's daughter) ...
... by Charles Dickens and All Quiet on 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.
... too many times to count), . . . I could probably name 20 books more.
And no one should feel bad that they haven't read Lord of the Rings . For one thing, it's very, very long. And for another, it's extremely masculine. Long and masculine. There's only so much of that some people can take. One ...
Too many... Lord of the Rings and Wuthering Heights are definitely near the top of my shame list, though.
... ion
The time machine
(6) Experimental or "Weird"
Kafka on the shore
(7) Romance
The red queen
(8) Fantasy
Lord of the rings
(9) Classic
Agnes Grey
(10) Contemporary
The life of insects
For me it would probably be The Lord of the Rings , Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre
and only a couple of months ago I would have been able to say Pride and Prejudice
... .
My preferences run to Science Fiction first, historical romance second and fantasy third.
I've read The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein several times, and just acquired The Simarillion - second edition, with a lengthy letter from Tolkein to his editor. I've ...
... to space opera. It's been harder to find Fantasy that I enjoy reading having started with Tolkein's The Hobbit and then The Lord of the Rings - The Chronicles of Narnia just didn't have the same power or depth for me. Phillip Pullman's The Golden Compass series I found to be very ...
... to multiple children and/or multiple parents...
If ∈ (is an element of) means "is a child of", then
Book III ∈ The Two Towers ∈ The Lord of the Rings
and
Book III ∈ The Lord of the Rings
are both true/possible relationships.
But I guess that would make listing ...
I've re-read JRR Tolkien times beyound count, particularly Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. I'd have to guess twenty to thirty times for each. Same goes for particular works from The Rose that Grew from Concrete....I've read certain passages from E.A.R.L. the Autobiography of DMX ...
... this one-volume edition, but still got recommended The Two Towers do have it - but it counts as a different work because it's bundled with The Fellowship of the ...
The Lord of the Rings . I think I read the books five times in a row when I was 13. Quickly went on to read The Chronicles of Narnia and Lloyd Alexander's Prydain books... and I was hooked on fantasy for life!
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 ...
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Ring: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
... sure I understand the proposed difference between superwork and partial works.
Lord of the Rings is the Superwork of The Two Towers or TTT is the partial work of LotRs - what's the difference?
Either way there should be recommendations for Return of the King if I only have TTT
... various "selected short stories/poems", abridgements, dramatisations? Wouls these be better with their own labels?
Would the two towers be combined as a "partial" part of the Lord of the Rings or not?
How would this effect "numbers" - duplicate works only if they are in the same label? Bu ...
... Curran
Sammy's Hill by Kristin Gore
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
... 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 Miles
I've been in a ...
The Two Towers
finally!
The Lord Peter Whimsey series?
Martha Grimes or P.D. James? They both have a series, can't think of the detective's name. Or Father Brown mysteries?
Ruth Rendell's books?
Our library had a patron, a retired judge who only read mysteries that were NOT written by women. He hated reading a lot ...
The Two Gentlemen of Valasna
Sunday 29 July 2007 20:45-22:20 (Radio 3)
The Two Gentlemen of Valasna, an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of a similar name, has been adapted for BBC Radio 3 by producer Roger Elsgood and director Willi Richards. It was recorded on location in Maharas ...
... saint-exupery
the power that preserves by stephen r. donaldson
faith of the fallen by terry goodkind
the two towers by jrr tolkien
think on these things by krishnamurti
heaven and hell by aldous huxley
the modularity of mind by jerry fodor
cosmic ...
... I only read a chapter a day, or a set amount of pages.
I'm currently (actively) reading:
-Tithe by Holly Black
-The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
-Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
-Chronicles of Pern: First Fall by Anne McCaffrey
-Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Pri ...
... all the Jane Austen I could get hold of including The Watsons and Sanditon, and biographies like the appreciation by Lord David Cecil , I started looking to her antecedents and found Fanny Burney who was a "mistress of the robes" to the queen, which she hated because she had to live in ...
... ossman
7. Shira by Agnon
8. Dolly City by Orly Kastel-Blum
9. Molkho by A. B. Yehoshua
10. Bi-khefifah aḥat by Amalia Kahana-Carmon
Almost made it to the top 10:
11. Mr. Mani by A. B. Yehoshua.
12. Ronit Matalon's The One Facing Us: A N ...
... by J. K. Rowling
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
... Waiting by Mary Stewart
The One Tree by Stephen R. Donaldson
One Foot in the Grave by Wm. Mark Simmons
The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
Year Zero by Jeff Long
... Virgin by Jean Plaidy
One Foot in the Grave by Wm. Mark Simmons
The One Tree by Stephen R. Donaldson
The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
... by Emily Prager
Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue by Laura Lee Hope
The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkein
... be part of several different series. Take e.g. my copies of :
In de ban van de ring : [I] : De reisgenoten
In de ban van de ring : II : De twee torens
In de ban van de ring : III : De terugkeer van de koning
They are different parts/volumes of the In de ban van de ring (LOT ...
... my question somewhere in the many Tolkien books I have, but I bet that someone here can save me the trouble.
I am in The Two Towers at the moment, in Ithilien, and Faramir makes the comment that Anarion, the last king of Gondor, left no heir (although Appendix A mentions another last king) ...
... 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
>36
Amazon.com calls Two Towers Audio Book an adaptation http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565116682/ref=nosim/librarythin08-20
I don't think I'd combine that particular work.
... dramatacised - this is different from the text and correctly seperate The Lord of the Rings (BBC Dramatization)
But Two Towers Audio Book
is The Two Towers I would have thought?
#35 "if they are a reading of the text" That's exactly what an audio book is.
I've finished The Two Towers and have now embarked on The Return of the King. My party is split between venturing into the dark depths of Mordor and riding from Rohan to Gondor's aid.
... sure many of us are still reading from the 1001. I finished both The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring. I'm on to The Two Towers as of this morning.
... sure many of us are still reading from the 1001. I finished both The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring. I'm on to The Two Towers as of this morning.
Still in Middle Earth, but now I'm reading J.R.R. Tolkien's The Two Towers , being the second part of The Lord of the Rings.
Edited: Now that touchstones are loading.
Sorry if I was unclear. I have two volumes. Goethe's Foust : Part I and Goethe's Faust : Part II *not* one anthology of both volumes.
In my catalog I just look like I'm the only person who owns a copy of "Faust", and that just isn't right.
I try to justify not finishing a book by thinkinf, "There's a reason I can't get through this book." I had to put Two Towers down for almost a year before I could stand it again, and then I loved it. There are some books out there, though, that even the biggest bibliophile can't absorb. It's not ...
... fun, and also the Dragonlance books. Anne McCaffrey's Pern series is another I have enjoyed.
Chronicles of Narnia and Lord of The Rings are old, enduring favourites.
Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is another favourite.
I'm just getting into George R.R. Martin's A Song ...
Books that I had to pick up from the main post office, as I was not at home when they came to deliver:
Memoirs of a Babylonian Princess, Vol II autobiography by Maria Theresa Asmar
Benazir Bhutto - Pakistani Prime Minister & Activist by Mary Englar,
Danziger's Travels by Nick D ...
... Darcy of Pride and Prejudice
Captain Wentworth of Persuasion
Hareton Earnshaw from Wuthering Heights
Pippin from The Lord of the Rings
Tuor of The Silmarillion and The Book of Lost Tales Part II, and Feanor from the former
Lemony Snicket
Some of these aren't actual young ...
13. Dispatches by Michael Herr
14. Dirty Havana Trilogy by Pedro Juan Gutierrez
The Green Dragon : So who all was grounded from books as a child? (Apr 9, 2007, 11:57pm)... I'd been looking forward to sharing all my Anne of Green Gables books with them, my L.M. Alcott books, The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings ...you get the idea. Nope they wouldn't have anything to do with it. I never tried bribing, I coaxed, cajoled, read favourite passages out loud to them, ...
... Round Table; a good half-dozen of Rosemary Sutcliff's characters; and, in any and every context, Robin Hood.
As for Lord of the Rings , I too had a crush on Legolas back in the day. Now that I'm no longer a YA, though, it's Faramir I fancy (Tolkien's Faramir, that is, not Jackson's ...
Is that the wife Robert supposedly threw down the stairs? I think her name was Lettice Knollys, if I'm not mistaken. His father John (the former Duke of Northumberland) was executed by Mary for the Lady Jane Grey/Dudley debacle.
I have a pretty interesting connection myself. My 7th great ...
... Braggelonne. Hmm, Louise de la Valliere is the second part of The Vicomte de Braggelonne trilogy. That's like suggesting The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien because I have The Lord of the Rings.
Instead, a better suggestion might be to historical romance authors like Thomas Costain or ...
... t'aime encore, Carmen je t'aime, je t'adore...", the meeting of Siegmund and Sieglinde in the first act of die walkure"du bist der lenz" , and " ce n'est pas ma main" from Manon. I'm not sure I'm quoting correctly; my libretti are in ny. (I saw Jessye Norman in both Walkure and Les Troyens ...
... on Sherlock Holmes when I was nine years old and quickly moved on to Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Edmund Crispen, Josephine Tey , Nicholas Blake Cyril Hare and others. Of those still living, I like PD Jamesand Ruth Rendell.
Is anyone else a fan of the traditional British ...
... with the movie coming out, I'm going to be asked how it compares to the book. Also Rubber Houses by Ellen Yeomans and Being by Kevin Brooks.
I agree that this would be useful. I own The Two Towers and the rest of the LOTR books but constantly get The Lord of the Rings suggested to me by the suggester. I'd much rather get a useful suggestion for books that are popular that I don't own instead of different titles for the same book.
... this would affect stats nor how it would be represented and what not, but I thought it could be very useful. As an example The Two Towers is in the Lord of the Rings but the reverse is not true. I have several Omnibus and also some of the original novels in them. This could be useful if ...
... Crowley
Eon -- Greg Bear
Cruel Sanctuary -- Brad Reynolds (signed)
The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers , and The Return of the King -- J.R.R. Tolkien
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants -- Ann Brasheres
The English Patient -- Micheal Ondaatge
...
My top YA/Teen read of 2006 has yet to be published. I read Being by Kevin Brooks, in proof last month. It's due to be published in the UK in March 2007. A boy goes in to hospital for a supposedly routine operation and the plot rapidly takes off from that point. Edgy, chilling, tense and ...
... by Daniel Pennac This should be required reading for anyone who wants to enthuse others with a passion for reading.
Being by Kevin Brooks - read a proof copy of this and it was the best TeenFic or YA novel I read all year. It's due to be published March 2007. Simply Fabulouso!
... The Lord of the Rings, but I'm still recommended to get the constituent parts of the novel, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King. Is there a way of adding it to the database that the three are within that one?
Why are people talking about The Lord of the Rings in a thread on classics?
If one must talk about Tolkien on this thread, I'd think trashing his second rate translation of Sir Gawain ought to be enough.
No, everyone does not love The Lord of the Rings . zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Tolkien's Lord of the Rings has been my favorite for about twenty years...since I was about the thread starters age.
... audiobook I listened to was Darkly Dreaming Dexter and I'm now on The Fellowship of the Ring. I've also downloaded The Two Towers and The Return of the King, and have Arthur and George and Dreaming the Eagle on the i-Pod, waiting to be listened to. One of my favorite books-on-tape ...
I've actually heard The Lord of the Rings described by some people as SciFi. I most certainly would never call it that, but even in here I see some people have it tagged as such. Certainly Robert Heinlein's works I would label strictly SciFi... wouldn't I? But what about Frank Herbert's D ...
... hasn't it? Certainly, 1984 has. They may have been fantasies in their time but not now. But I seriously doubt that Lord of the Rings will ever be a reality. And anthropomorhizing (is that a word?) animals (or vegetables, for that matter) drives me nuts. I score extremely high on ...
... references.
Contrary to Gabriel's message the classics of the future will not come from the new genres of sf and fantasy. Lord of the Rings is a classic fantasy but it is not a literary classic, nor does it deserve to be treated as such. Ender's Game is merely a good read. Magic Realism is ...
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The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
352 pages / 1954 (1993) / 5 stars / Fantasy / 10-17-08 / audiobook
As with previous books in The Lord of the Rings series that I've read, ...
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