open

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Forums

You are logged in as a guest. ( logon | register )
Posting a reply to: The Tolkien Reading Challenge - Read, You Fools!

Back
General Discussion -> Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge
Guest name
Subject
Message

Emoticons
HTML: Yes
Anonymous: No
MBBS Code: Yes


 Disable HTML
Enable emoticons



You are replying to:
spoltz
Posted 2015-01-05 5:25 PM (#9169)
Subject: The Tolkien Reading Challenge - Read, You Fools!		Quote Reply



Uber User

Posts: 370
100
Location: Beaverton, Oregon, USA		Welcome everyone!

I decided to create this challenge because there are many of us who have read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but not much else. I'm hoping this challenge may motivate some of you to read more of what Tolkien published, as well as the volumes that his son has published in the years since his death. And I'm asking for reviews because there are almost none for those posthumous works. It would be great is we could get a few posted over this next year.

Because some of his works are a little to get through, I'm going to try to use some online resources to help me understand some the more complex books. Specifically, someone turned me on to The Tolkien Professor. He has a set of lectures available as downloads and on iTunes specifically for The Silmarillion, which is what I'm most concerned about. The link is here:

http://tolkienprofessor.com/wp/

I'd like to thank galleyangel for contacting me about it.

So have fun reading the person who turned many of us onto this genre of books, movies, and games. Feel free to post as much or as little as you'd like, but I enjoy hearing how other folks are progressing, whether slowly or quickly. And feel free to share other resources you may find that help you through this challenge.

Thanks!!


(Delete all cookies set by this site)