Thread: The Lord of the Rings

I agree, but I was talking to Dephere, who basically said Tolkein wasn't a good author because she couldn't understand the language he used.

Well, looks like you can't understand a simple gender tag...I'm a guy...that wasn't too hard for you, was it?

I could understand the language fine, nothing was complex in that book, nothing. And that's exactly why I didn't really like the prose. It just kind of presented the information, almost like a history book, but a little more interesting.

I have no problems with reading comrehension, in fact that is one of my strong points, so please don't tell people what I'm trying to say, because you obviously have no clue.

Originally Posted by jrudder

That's because he wrote in the "old style". Look at all the old writers; a bunch of them wrote that way. Just because it may be a bit difficult to read doesn't detract from how good something is.

I read a lot more of old literature than modern and I could not get through Tolkien, as much as i wanted to, I lost where I was in in the narrative while he was describing an ancient blood line or something.. I just couldn't do it..

It's not cause he was an older writer it's minaly his style, which is all fine and dandy for some, however, not for me.

Originally Posted by Dephere

Well, looks like you can't understand a simple gender tag...I'm a guy...that wasn't too hard for you, was it?

Whoa, my bad. I dunno, I had an idiot moment. As for the rest of it, my fault. I have met so many people who complain about how they don't like Tolkein because he writes weird and they can't understand it, and it looked like you were saying the same thing. Sorry.

It's okay...I guess...

You're forgiven. I actually have no problem understanding books, especially considering I've read A Clockwork Orange, which is by far the strangest written book. Pretty much in another language.

I just hate when people speak for me, especially when they don't know me.

Yeah, sorry for doing that. Come to think of it, I hate that too and I dunno why I did it. A Clockwork Orange? Never read it. Have you read any of Robert A. Heinlein's stuff? Not hard to understand, but freakin weird anyways.

and they get it wrong. I'm sure you'd accept someone speaking for you, if they said what you wanted.

Exactly, Kal...See, I feel perfectly comfortable having Kal speak for me, but then again she knows me.

I haven't heard of that, jrudder.

Heinlein is most famous for his book "Starship Troopers", a book that uses sci-fi to comment on the Cold War. If you've seen the movie "based" on the book, forget it because the only thing the two have in common are the names of the characters. For example, they changed something as basic as the sex of one of the characters; Dizzy was a guy in the book and a girl in the movie. Anyways, his other stuff is pretty weird.

way to ruin that book jrudder.

I'm not an idiot. The book's impossible to find because it's not around anymore. If you're wondering how I read it, I didn't; I read a summary.

Starship Troopers and Stranger in a Strange Land are still around, and those are good reads.

I never called you an idiot, and books can be found again.

I know you didn't, I was just saying I'm not stupid enough to ruin a book that is around for everyone to read, like telling everyone the ending of A Tale of Two Cities or something. Yes, books can be found again, but this one is so obscure.

this is very off topic but just to say never take that as a guarantee. I've read a lot of books by authors no one I know had heard of and then I'll come online and someone else will be a lifelong fan.

Books can be found you may think it's obscure but it could be on a dusty bookshelf waiting to be picked up somehwre and off hand comments like that can then take what enjoyment someone could have found away.

Very well. Post edited, no matter how unlikey.