On 22 Oct 05  20:05:45, Nancy Backus got back to Danny Ceppa 
-> Re: Tolkien was: Nighty night

 DC> It can be a tough read at times.  I confess to skipping over some 
 DC> the songs/sagas that are thrown in.  

 NB> I read the whole thing for the first time when I was in high school. 
 NB> It was partly sorta on a dare, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.  The

Overall, I enjoyed the series immensely.  I'd love to see Peter 
Jackson do _The Hobbit_.  

 NB> And have since accumulated just about everything Tolkien's written as
 NB> well, including the books that give some of the background of the
 NB> elements of Middle Earth, the background mythologies and such... even
 NB> the extra songs/ sagas...  

I never could get into them.  I've got the _Samirilion_ but never 
got past the 1st chapter.  


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