Jonathan Terrington’s Reviews > The Lord of the Rings > Status Update

This book extends far beyond any colourful film or theatrical presentation...

On to the Return of the King!

Forgot how much I love the episode with The Palantir, Helms Deep and Isengard in the books compared to the movies...

So, this Christmas I have determined my next act (before buying books, cricket gear and dvds with my cash) is to read much more of the Lord of the Rings.

I wonder if part of the waning appeal of Lord of the Rings is the change in attention spans and the fact that many people more and more come to find simple things like language and literary beauty 'boring'...

On to the Two Towers!

Time to get back to this soon...

There are other reasons Lord of the Rings remains my favourite novel (childhood memories, the prose, the story, the themes) yet it is always the multifaceted nature of the book and how one can note different things on another reading that keep me enthralled by it.

First things I note on my 5th reading: 1)How amazing is this book with the characters, the world, the writing... 2)Why do so many people find Tolkien slow and boring, he is rather well paced I find. and 3)A lot of the criticisms seem rather unfounded in some regards.