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Darkstone
Immortal
May 17 2016, 2:42pm
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Are you a fan of the book The Hobbit?
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I am a fan of the book.
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Beorn's Bees
Lorien
May 17 2016, 5:23pm
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The Hobbit is my favorite book of all time.
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malickfan
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May 17 2016, 6:37pm
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Love the story, love the characters, adore the atomsphere and tone, it's arguably the weakest of Tolkien's major works, but it's probably my personal favourite.
It's one of only two books I own more than one copy of. (one copy is a reprint of the 1997 illustrated hardback by Alan Lee, the other is the 2nd Edition of 'The Annotated Hobbit' by Douglas A Anderson)
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Kilidoescartwheels
Valinor
May 17 2016, 9:15pm
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I did a similar poll not too long ago
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seeing whether book fans liked or didn't like the movies - found that most book fans did. I confess, I'm not a huge fan of the book, but I didn't hate it. I thought most of the characters were underdeveloped, and I didn't much care for the Elves singing "Trally lolly" or whatever. I also didn't much care for Gandalf just disappearing and reappearing, but to me the worst part was the deaths of both Kili and Fili. I've said that many times, and it's been explained to me that it has something to do with Norse sagas, but I don't care. Worse is that the way Tolkien wrote it, it came off as an afterthought - "oh yeah, they died too." Oh well, to each his own. But the story itself is pretty entertaining - I regret that the scene where Bilbo told Balin about the riddles contest wasn't in the movie. I liked the Barrels scene (though I liked the movie version better), Bilbo's conversation with Smaug, and other story elements. Funny, in the book I didn't much care for Dain showing up at the last minute and getting everything; but the way it's presented in the movie helps me like Dain a lot better. This is probably TMI, sorry, and I don't know that I answered your question very well, either.
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Eowyn of Penns Woods
Valinor
May 18 2016, 1:16am
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you could call it my gateway drug to Tolkien addiction. So, that would be a yes. I love the book.
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Silverlode
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May 18 2016, 9:57am
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I don't love it nearly as much as I love LOTR.
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Annael
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May 18 2016, 1:54pm
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I like it okay. I would probably have liked it a lot more if I'd read it before reading LOTR, especially if I'd read it as a child.
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Ethel Duath
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May 19 2016, 4:03am
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Maybe because I don't expect it to be LOTR.
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Gianna
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May 19 2016, 1:14pm
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Your terseness makes me laugh every time I read your post. 
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Eldy
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Jun 4 2016, 7:27pm
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TH, LOTR, and The Silmarillion are all very different in many ways. There's no guarantee that liking one means you'll like the others, but expecting them to all be the same kind of book is a recipe for disappointment IMO.
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Ethel Duath
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Jun 5 2016, 2:14am
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that I read the Hobbit first. Because I had no particular expectations, I was able to let it be what it is. And returning to it, even after scores of LOTR rereads, I find I simply mentally return to that "take" on Middle Earth when I go back to the Hobbit. When I read the Sil (decades after my first reading of LOTR), I remember reading comments here on the boards about Tolkien's efforts to create a mythology for Britain, and discussion about how different it was from either the Lord of the Rings or the Hobbit, and with that in my mind, I didn't really have any trouble making the transition.
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