/lit/ - Literature

>>23406846
Might be a good time to read them again. Have you read the Silmarillion?

>At work reading LoTR
>Friend/Coworker says he always wanted to read it but never got around to it
>Offer to lend copy
>He says thank you but asks if I mind as I'm reading it currently
>Laugh and tell him it's cool I can lend him my paper back version
>He asks me "You have two copies of the same book?"
>Laugh when he says "two."

>>23351392
I really love the look of the movies but I always feel it's a bit of a shame, like with most, that a visual medium becomes the single defacto image of the series. Not that the movies didn't nail it but you know still.