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Anonymous Tue Mar 13 02:07:57 2018 No.10834983 [Reply] [Original]

Should I read The Hobbit before I read Lord of the Rings? Or can I just jump right into LOTR?

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>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 02:12:19 2018 No.10835005 >>10834983 you can do whatever you like, anon. life is short and who are we to tell you how to live it?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 02:12:55 2018 No.10835008 >>10834983 Don't read either, they're shit

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 03:11:56 2018 No.10835243 It doesn't really matter, they're all kinda their own thing in the same setting

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 05:34:04 2018 No.10835710 >>10834983 >Should I read The Hobbit before I read Lord of the Rings? Yes. >Or can I just jump right into LOTR? Yes.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 06:21:49 2018 No.10835798 >>10834983 Start with the Greeks

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 07:08:13 2018 No.10835920 >>10835798 this

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 08:26:13 2018 No.10836078 >>10835710 pretty much this. it's not essential prior reading for LotR, but you should still read it anyway.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 12:13:09 2018 No.10836752 >>10834983 Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, then Silmarillion.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 12:14:45 2018 No.10836757 Skipping the Hobbit would be dumb, it's the best children's fantasy book ever written

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 16:26:17 2018 No.10837713 In the future, google release dates or reading orders.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 16:31:18 2018 No.10837748 you don't really need to. There was a guy named bilbo who went on a quest and came back with a bunch of loot. Really all you need to know.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 16:34:44 2018 No.10837761 >>10834983 Start with the Silmarillion, otherwise you won't understand anything. In fact I would advise reading it twice before starting the other books

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 16:35:34 2018 No.10837764 >>10835005 we are all gods

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 16:36:06 2018 No.10837767 >>10834983 read them concurrently

Anonymous Tue Mar 13 16:40:11 2018 No.10837789

>>10834983
>Should I read The Hobbit before I read Lord of the Rings?
Yes. You don't have to, but seeing as LOTR is basically The Hobbit 2 you would be wise to do more than watch the 'Previously, on The Hobbit...' segment that begins The Fellowship of the Ring.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 16:41:13 2018 No.10837792 >>10836752 this is the patrician answer

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 20:43:28 2018 No.10838972 File: 34 KB, 291x450, 51c1lUvplOL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10836752 This.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 20:47:31 2018 No.10838982 >>10834983 You can read LOTR without the hobbit. It is pretty much self contained. The hobbit does happen before LOTR so reading it first makes sense.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 13 23:04:46 2018 No.10839537 >>10834983 Lord of the rings is easy to digest.

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