Should I check out Lord of the Rings

[Waluigi]

Both the books and movies are brilliant.

They are long, but they are fabulous.

 

[RayOfHope]

I'm going to tell you what my husband told me when I asked him if he thought I should read The Hobbit: Tolkien was actually a terrible writer. The books drag on for forever and a freaking day, and it's really unnecessary. But his ideas and the world he came up with is amazing.

Haha your husband is quite right, when it comes to writing Tolkien isn't very good. I'm terrible at imagining intense geographical description because I just get totally lost, and LotR has a lot of it. And all the name-dropping of random Elven words and historical references can be pretty overwhelming, but I'm kind of used to that in fantasy stories so I take it all in stride and maybe look it up later.

I think the emphasis that Tolkien puts on the land is very interesting though, because it just adds to the impression that he's writing less for the story of the hobbits and the ring, and more for Middle-Earth itself, its nature and its histories. And the countless references that are made to various historical events and figures give it a grand scope.

While the trilogy takes part in an important part of Middle-Earth's history, and spans a good few decades (pretty sure Frodo holds onto the ring for something like thirty years before starting the journey), it's hardly even a blink compared to the thousands of other years which Tolkien has mostly covered in detail.

...Somebody please get me away from the keyboard, and/or this thread, I could write essays about this stuff (and I already have once in English class...and I actually had to cut back on how much I'd written).

 

[Improv]

Definitely start with The Hobbit if you're going to read them.

I liked it idk.

 

[EpicGamer12]

Doesn't really matter for you but I can assure you, reading all three books is quite the commitment. Also, the movies are pretty long and at times boring, but it's a good story. You have to be prepared.

 

[dizzy bone]

I've only read the Hobbit and I enjoyed it. But I love the movies. I marathon the whole trilogy at least once a year. It's that good...
but I hate the new Hobbit movies.