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Reptile
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Sep 11 2008, 2:25am
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Because of the meanest person in the world
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When I was in high school my brother was reading them. I worshiped him and wanted to do anything he was into. I call him the meanest person in the world because, when I was in the middle of the last book, he spoiled the ending for me. This was even meaner than the time he told me to lick my finger and put it in a light socket.
"If you listen closely, you can hear the gods laughing."
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Draupne
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Sep 11 2008, 11:49am
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pronounce them the same way (smaug is the past tense of smyge (hmm, to sneak but not quite)). And it's a very nice diphtong, but I can't remember the phonetic sign. It doesn't sound anything like oo or i though :-) Or like taut.
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Alassëa Eruvande
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Sep 11 2008, 4:05pm
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I always wondered what it meant. Google was useless in this case.
Thanks!
And suddenly the Ainur saw afar off a light, as it were a cloud with a living heart of flame.
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(This post was edited by Alassëa Eruvande on Sep 11 2008, 4:08pm)
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Alassëa Eruvande
Valinor
Sep 11 2008, 4:48pm
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*ducks and covers*
And suddenly the Ainur saw afar off a light, as it were a cloud with a living heart of flame.
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Morrowdim
Rivendell
Sep 11 2008, 10:01pm
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I have the pleasure of being able to blame my father.
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My best friend was a huge fan of The Hobbit. I was re-reading The Silver Chair for the umpteenth time. My best friend talked me into reading The Hobbit.
My father, a college literature teacher, asked what I thought of The Hobbit. I told him it was OK, but not as great a story as could be found in The Chronicles of Narnia. (Which I had grown up with. My father read them aloud to me as a child.) My father smiled and then offered me his set of LOTR books. He told me it was better than The Hobbit and to sit down and read. What can I say? My father knows a good book when he sees one!
Because of LOTR, I have been able to appreciate The Hobbit as a part of the tale. It was confusing to read when I first picked it up, though, because the copy of The Hobbit which I had read was the original telling of the story where Gollum simply led Bilbo right out of the mountain. I read through as far as The Council of Elrond in LOTR and realized that this was no mere Hobbit tale. I stopped, started over, and read every word, sometimes twice.
I like to think of myself as a second-generation Tolkien fan. My father was one before me and was responsible for getting me hooked. I passed it on to my children. Two of my four children have begun collecting other works of Tolkien as well. Multigenerational Tolkienism: It's a good thing. 
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dernwyn
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Sep 12 2008, 1:40am
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like the "ow" in "browser", or the "au" in "laut"?
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"I desired dragons with a profound desire"
"It struck me last night that you might write a fearfully good romantic drama, with as much of the 'supernatural' as you cared to introduce. Have you ever thought of it?"
-Geoffrey B. Smith, letter to JRR Tolkien, 1915
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syameese
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Sep 12 2008, 10:06am
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It was sometime in the seventies that I first read LOTR. Being a library user I had kept an eye for it on the shelves for a couple of years, but it never was there (I don't bother to reserve items). One day a cousin mentioned that she had the books and lent them to me strongly suggesting that i read The Hobbit first, which I did. I recall not being too impressed with TH, but I did know that it was a children's book and had been forewarned that the LOTR was a much different style. And so I began ....
Curiously my recollection of that first reading is that I was put out when Bilbo left the story so early, but of course that momentary discomfiture was soon put aside. I then proceeded to read the book many many times over the next twenty years, probably averaging close to at least one read a year. Once I got to the end and promptly started from the beginning again.
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dernwyn
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Sep 12 2008, 3:46pm
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Sorry, couldn't resist!
I know there are others here who had that initial "problem" with LotR: they wanted Bilbo to have a greater part in it.
Welcome to TORn! Have you been lurking? 
BTW, instead of replying to the main post in this thread, you replied to mine (which was the last post you would have seen, in "flat" mode). Here's a link to Daughter of Nienna's post which gives a great description of how the posting works here and how to best use it.
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"I desired dragons with a profound desire"
"It struck me last night that you might write a fearfully good romantic drama, with as much of the 'supernatural' as you cared to introduce. Have you ever thought of it?"
-Geoffrey B. Smith, letter to JRR Tolkien, 1915
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grammaboodawg
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Sep 13 2008, 9:57am
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Where's that cream pie?
*THWACK!*
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"Barney Snow was here." ~Hug like a hobbit!~ "In my heaven..."
I really need these new films to take me back to, and not re-introduce me to, that magical world.
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Lady of Light
Rivendell
Sep 15 2008, 5:38am
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Does anyone remember those old computer games by Interplay
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based on LotR (Vol 1 & Vol 2)? My brother was playing The Two Towers game (he had read the books, influenced by Mom) and I sat and watched him (it was actually a common form of entertainment in our house to watch someone else play a computer game). He played through up to the big Gandalf return, by which point I was intrigued enough that I wanted to read the real story. So they started me on The Hobbit, and I've been hooked ever since (becoming the biggest LotR geek in the family in the end) despite being completely spoiled for Boromir's death and Gandalf's return. 
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."
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