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Poll Question: Have you read The Lord of the Rings(in it's entirety)?
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Points: 22989 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2010 at 08:00
Originally posted by Ricochet Ricochet wrote:

Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

No. No one in my home country ever mentions this author, like he doesn't even exist. I don't think anything has been translated, also.


Was that sarcasm?



No. Now that I've searched it on Google, it seems like several of his titles were translated, but in more than a decade of reading literary magazines, I have never seen him mentioned, and also I've never seem these translations in bookstores (and bookstores are my second home).
Google found me this: http://convorbiri-literare.dntis.ro/MCERNAUTIm.htm An article in a literary magazine, dealing with why is Tolkien so little known in our culture Tongue

Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

  Anyway, Alex, you should really make the effort to read it in the English original...


Unfortunately, I can't read for pleasure in foreign languages. My only luck was that we had and still have great translators from French, Spanish, English, Russian, Latin, and German & Italian on a lesser degree. I do read in English quite a lot, but only for practical purposes.


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Lord of the Rings has in fact been translated into 38 other languages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translations_of_The_Lord_of_the_Rings#List_of_translations
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Originally posted by progkidjoel progkidjoel wrote:

I definitely agree to put off The Silmarillion for now; go with The Hobbit, LOTR then Silmarillion.

Just out of interest, has anyone read Children Of Hurin? It was written a while ago, but only released about 2 years ago. I've picked it up again and its really fantastic.


I have it and it is just marvellous (provided you like the tale in The Silmarillion Wink)
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Points: 10616 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2010 at 13:34
I read it, yes. Wonderful book!
 
The Hobbit and the Silmarillion are pretty good too. Still haven't read Children of Hurin though.
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Points: 5195 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2010 at 13:44
Of course I read it ... and I'll say that it should be read in English. Big smile
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Required reading in the 60's for freaks and hippies - although weekend hippies probably had better attention spans to wade through the first 200 pages. Here there is a lot  of scene setting, but little in the way of movement from the Shire. Once our heroes start moving then the pace of the book accelerates and increasingly  The Lord Of The Rings becomes a page turner. Would agree The Hobbit is a good place to start and lightweight in comparison as a read.
 
Apologies, since I'm sure I've written some of the following before....
 
 
 
This side of the Atlantic  the second required reader was Mervin Peake's Gormenghast/Titus Groan triology - a classic in gothicness. I was reminded of this passing the former mental home in Virginia Water two Sunday's ago, where Peake was institutionalised because of severe depression. The building is Victorian gothic, echoing the more accessible Victorian red brick main buildings of London University's Royal Holloway College in Englefield Green, 3 miles away on the A30. Sting, I belive still has the copyright for the triology, but never found the money for a movie - although the BBC both did a TV series (DVD of which is very cheap on Amazon.UK) and earlier to that a radio play (starring Sting!!!). The language in Gormenghast is a delight.
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Of course. The best and most important fantasy book ever written.
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First read LOTR when I was 11, then another 4 times during my teenage years. It's been a while since I read any Tolkien, there are other authors out there, right now I'm working my way through Katharine Kerr.

I enjoyed Gormenghast immensely.

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Edited by Falx - May 09 2010 at 06:02
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