Who has read the  Silmarillion?
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I am amazed that this question was asked. I thought the book too obscure to be noticed in this day and age. \n\nI loved it. A bit convoluted but brilliant. It has the potential to be a fantastic movie but it has to be done to match its brothers. Peter Jackson is a must here.
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It's from the Hobbit...\n\nIsn't it Time?
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Yes!\nI didn't start reading them until after the 3rd movie came out. I thought they were just kids books. When I was visiting my Aunt and Uncle a couple years ago I thought I'd give it a try. I read all 5 books in about a month. Ever since then, I fell in love with the books. I've read them all many times! I can't wait until the next one!
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I would love to watch it on either the big or small screen, or as a documentary...not a documentary about the book, the story in documentary format. It would lend itself to being told as a "fact" piece since it is somewhat scriptural and historical.\n\nI don't have the patience to read it. I loved Lord of the Rings and bought the Sil but I couldn't bring myself to plow through it. Tolkien, as much as I love his stories, went into a LOOOOOOOT of detail, describing down to the last pebble! The LOTR books was all the cerebral I could handle, pretty much the hardest book I ever read. As such, it is one of my favs, and I'm proud to say I accomplished reading it. But also content with that accomplishment.\n\nI would love the background info and more info about the Elves. Which is what the Sil covers. And this would be in a presentation that I could stick with. I know...cheating. There is ADHD to consider if that is any kind of excuse.\n\nWhy do you ask, anyway? Are you considering making it? OR have you heard about it being done?
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Tom Bombadil\n\nof all the folks the hobbits meet  tom is the most wondrously unexplainable encounter and certainly they had the best time at his house.\nSome say Tom had no real role to play in the war  but I think they over look what he did for Merry.   Merry starts out disliking magic forests like the old forest near buckland and his encounter with old man willow would have encouraged his dislike of magic trees\nBut then he was rescued by old Tom.\nTom's influence would be the only explanation for Merry's sort of liking Fangorn forest  which led to Treebeard being friendly. \n\nOk enough with Tolkien trivia   the real truth why I love Tom\nTom is such a Snazzy dresser.\n\nOld Tom is a merry fellow; Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow
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whoa! demo, did you actually write all that or just cut and paste it?\n\nTo keep it simple as possible w/o an entire unrelated history of the Middle Earth:\n\nElrond and Elros were of mixed race of the elves of the Sindar and Noldor and of humans from two noble houses. They were descended from even the Maiar.\n\nTheir grandparents were:\n\n*Beren and Luthien\n-Beren was a man of the House of Beor\n-Luthien was the daughter of Thingol of the Sindarin Elves and Melian the Maiar\n--Their son was Dior who was Elvish and his daughter was Elwing\n\n*Tuor and Idril\n-Tuor was a man of the House of Haldor\n-Idril was the daughter of Turgon at one time High King of the Noldor\n--Their child was Earendil the Mariner who was human\n--He married Elwing and thier sons were Elrond and Elros\n\nNow Morgoth was running rampant in Middle Earth particularly Beleriand. Pretty much all the old strongholds of Elves, Men, and even Dwarves were ruined. Earendil made a forbidden journey to the West to get help from the Valar. \n\nThey answered and with him destroyed Morgoth's forces and put the upstart Valar away for good. Earendil was forbidden to return to the realm of man and to his sons was given the choice to be man or elf.\n\nElrond chose to be Elf while his brother chose to be a man and became the first king of Numenor with an extended lifespan.\n\nSo the choice had to do with both their parentage and their father's actions  - plus probably a bit of foresight on certain Valar's part who saw the destiny of Elros and Elrond's descendents intertwined.\n\nhope that makes some sense
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IT WAS GREAT!!!  IF YOU LIKED THE MOVIES, YOU WILL LOVE THE BOOKS.  START WITH "THE HOBBIT" THEN READ THE TRILOGY.
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I also want to know who has read that book
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I am absolutely totally in love with Lord of the Rings.  I have the books on tape and the Extended Edition of the Movies.  I also have all the books.\nHow can you not love Lord of the Rings?
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YESYESYESYES!!!\n\n\nIt has been a few years since I read the books, but I think that it was one of the most faithful book-gone-movie movies that i have ever seen.
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The Lord Of the Rings!
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I love C. S. Lewis.  He's my favorite.  I think "Till We Have Faces" is my favorite even though the beginning is a little difficult to get through. \n\nThe space trilogy is good ("Out of the Silent Planet", "Perelandra" and "That Hideous Strength"), "The Great Divorce", "The Chronicles of Narnia", "The Screwtape Letters", and "The Pilgrim's Regress".  I also really like his non-fiction as well.\n\nI like J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Dickens, Pearl Buck, Aldous Huxley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Jane Austin, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, D. H. Lawrence, Tennessee Williams, Fyodor Dostoevsky, J. K. Rowling, and Nancy Rue (she writes mostly children's fiction).  Sort of an eclectic mix....
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The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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No i havent but here's some links to customer reviews on amazon and barnes and noble (you have to scroll down to see them) Hope this helps!\n\nhttp://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=yh7svqWCkt&isbn=0375412018&itm=1\n\nhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375412018/sr=8-1/qid=1139864943/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-5358171-8958453?%5Fencoding=UTF8
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The greatest movies I've ever seen, and my favorite book series of all time.....but I don't have any obvious favorite characters. However, I liked some of the portrayals - Viggo Mortensen was *outstanding* as Aragorn, and Ian McKellen as Gandalf was fantastic. Billy Boyd was quite entertaining as Pippin, and John-Rhys Davies cracked me up, too, as Gimli. "That still only counts as one!" X D\n\nI especially enjoyed watching Miranda Otto.....oh, and also how she played Eowyn. ; )
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The Lord of the Rings. I loved it.
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Yes! i have read it, its very much like the Kings James version.