Is it just me?

[TheMusketMan]

Or is Lord of the Rings really hard to read? I had to read a chunk every couple of weeks just to get to the last chapter of the first book. I was able to speed through The Hobbit no problem, but the first book is really hard to get through. Anyone else feel like this? It may be because I have all of the LoTR books in one massive book, but I don't think so.

[Smiral]

I've only read the Hobbit

Because I was forced to

Really don't care for Tolkien's style, so everything written by him is difficult to get through imo

This doesn't help you at all

[Antarctic Termite]

TheMusketMan said Or is Lord of the Rings really hard to read? I had to read a chunk every couple of weeks just to get to the last chapter of the first book. I was able to speed through The Hobbit no problem, but the first book is really hard to get through. Anyone else feel like this? It may be because I have all of the LoTR books in one massive book, but I don't think so.

Ab-so-fucking-lutely.

[Elendra]

TheMusketMan said
Or is Lord of the Rings really hard to read? I had to read a chunk every couple of weeks just to get to the last chapter of the first book. I was able to speed through The Hobbit no problem, but the first book is really hard to get through. Anyone else feel like this? It may be because I have all of the LoTR books in one massive book, but I don't think so.

His writing style is dry and historical linguistic... person dude. His field was dry and textbook. There's a reason he wrote things like the Silmarillion.

[mdk]

Two Towers and ROTK are each better than Fellowship. TT was actually pretty edge-of-the-seat-ish for 15-year-old me. I could never really get into Fellowship, but I ate the next two UP. Then I read Silmarillion, which was like...... I mean worth knowing, I guess, and some good stories in it, but christ it was drier than Leviticus.

[Sole]

TheMusketMan said
Or is Lord of the Rings really hard to read? I had to read a chunk every couple of weeks just to get to the last chapter of the first book. I was able to speed through The Hobbit no problem, but the first book is really hard to get through. Anyone else feel like this? It may be because I have all of the LoTR books in one massive book, but I don't think so.

He goes into detail for anything he can to provide information on any area he hadn't done so already prior to a scene. He's the lover of semicolons and parenthesis.

[mdk]

Sole said
He goes into detail for anything he can to provide information on any area he hadn't done so already prior to a scene. He's the lover of semicolons and parenthesis.

Holy shit, that explains sooooo many bad habits.