chris fidler answers “why am i just keep putting it down? should...”

Linh Nguyen asked this question about The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2):

why am i just keep putting it down? should i continue or should i just give up, it really bores me to death, there are so many dialogues talking about past and chatting to each other ...

chris fidler If you are reading a book because you like a movie, you are reading for the wrong reason. I notice most of the answers to this question are people who…moreIf you are reading a book because you like a movie, you are reading for the wrong reason. I notice most of the answers to this question are people who probably expected Lord of the Rings to be like Game of Thrones, where the books were written with specific actors in mind for the roles, and that is not what this is. All the people who discover Tolkien after reading modern fantasy need to realise that their beloved books were derived from this source material. The reason you find it boring is no modern writer took the initiative to flesh out a complete world and history like Tolkien, because he already laid the foundation for them. So, if of reads like a history book, it's because it sort of is- not just for Middle Earth, but for every book with tall elves and heroic dwarves or anything else fantastic.(less)

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Derek Palm The first 4 Game of Thrones books (A Song of Ice and Fire) were published before the first episode on HBO aired in 2011. The first book was finished i ...more
May 15, 2019 02:26PM · flag

Jennifer Yes. Especially because they were relatively obscure actors. I think this speaks to the excellent casting job done for GoT (and excellent acting, as w ...more
Aug 31, 2019 06:29AM · flag

Luka And for the record not all of the characters in GoT follow the books either (Most of the characters are much younger in the books for example, the vio ...more
Mar 08, 2020 07:37AM · flag

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