/lit/ - Literature

>>18369248
I read everything. Otherwise, what's the point.

>>18369250
True. It just feels like such a pointless chapter

>>18369248
Wth? Top 10 character.

>they dont know

I skip everything that was not included in the Peter Jackson adaption, also makes easier to imagine the scenery similar in the film and can watch the movies if cannot imagine something properly

>>18369248
I try to sing the songs but i'm not good at it

>>18369775
I just watch the film with subtitles on. It's still reading despite what the pseuds say.

>>18369806
You shouldn't say shit like that. Someone will see it and adopt it as a serious standpoint

>>18369806
based

>>18369942
too late

Anyone have the "what was Tolkien thinking" screencap?

>>18369775
On a different note, I really hate what they did to Sam in the movies. The actor is so punchable (cant put my finger on why), but his face and way of talking just annoys me to no end

...whereas the Book Sam of course is the most important character of all

Test

>>18369248
I wouldn't skip the songs, they're beautiful and make me wish I had music or poetry in my soul.

OLD TOM BOMBADIL IS A MERRY FELLOW
HIS JACKET IS BLUE AND HIS BOOTS ARE YELLOW
>OLD TOM BOMBADIL IS A MERRY FELLOW
HIS JACKET IS BLUE AND HIS BOOTS ARE YELLOW
OLD TOM BOMBADIL IS A MERRY FELLOW
HIS JACKET IS BLUE AND HIS BOOTS ARE YELLOW
>OLD TOM BOMBADIL IS A MERRY FELLOW
HIS JACKET IS BLUE AND HIS BOOTS ARE YELLOW

Do not skip that chapter, it's worth. And it adds a place of purity. Tom Bombadil is likely a representation of Eru, or the Middleearth version of God

>>18369775
My father forbid me from watching the movies as long as I hadn't read the trilogy so my imagination wouldn't be tainted

>>18369248
>skipping the tom bombadil chapter
>NGMI

>>18371307
>they're beautiful and make me wish I had music or poetry in my soul.
that's why i skip them

>>18371732
BASED father

>>18369248
>reading Fellowship
>"There was an answer"
>immediately stop reading
>open YouTube
>fellowship audiobook part 1
>4:39:52
>listen to the rest of the chapter instead of reading just for Tom singing

>>18371732
My dad did the same thing. He also read them to me when I was very young and even to my moms stomach when I was a fetus. I wasn’t allowed to watch the movies till I was about 10. Thanks dad!!

>>18371732
My dad did too. So fucking based

>>18372359
>>18372262
>>18371732
My dad is Peter Jackson and he thinks youre all dorks

>>18372106
This is a good idea, based and merry fellow pilled

>>18369248
I'm gay actor, tom bobadil

>>18372427
The audiobook is actually quite good and immersive so I definitely recommend checking it out

>>18372106
>not singing them yourself

>>18372367
your dad is a soulless hack

>>18369248
Just imagine being Tomb and banging a servile water nymph whose only purpose in life is your sexual pleasure. He only invited the hobbits to his house to lord it over them, not realizing they all were either homo or asexual.

>>18373781
I do that too

>>18369248
Listen to the LoTR soundscape.

Thank me later. Also my boots are yellow.

All three enchanced audiobooks:
https://raby.sh/pages/lord-of-the-rings-soundscape-by-phil-dragash.html
>>18374537

When I went back and reread the books as an adult, the Tom Bombadil chapters were some of my favorites. I love "In the House of Tom Bombadil," when it's raining and the hobbits are sitting in Tom's house, listening to him talk as the time goes by. There's something mystical and otherworldly about that chapter.

>>18369248
Read the chapter, sing the songs.

>>18375267
the patrician's choice

>>18369248
Bombadildo

It wasn't until I heard Rob Inglis singing the songs in the fellowship audiobook when i finally 'got it'.

listen to this banger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njwy02laJs0

>>18369775
the LOTR movies are peak reddit

>>18374980
one of the highlights of the book. also love the barrow downs chapter. anyone who complains about this section or the scouring of the shire outs themselves as a complete jewlywood loser

>>18375867
As far as movies go they're pretty kino but not as good as the books, obviously.

>>18375867
There's not a single person of colour in them, unless you count orcs or uruks.

>>18369775
>>18369248
>not a merry fellow
>>18369796
>>18369926
>>18371600
>>18371732
soulful and bombadilled

>>18375873
The Barrow Downs is one of the most bone chilling parts of the book. The way it immediately followed the fairytale of Tom's house makes it exceedingly clear that Middle-Earth is nothing like the Shire.

>>18375867
This except for Bakshi's version

>>18369775
Wow

>>18369248
The songs and poems are the best part. Especially tree beard

>>18369248
Right, I always skip poetry interludes and songs in books.

>>18369248
what's your favorite tolkien song/poem, /lit/?
for me, it's "why the man in the moon came down too soon"
not the song frodo sings in fellowship, oh no; i mean the book of lost tales poem

>>18369248
I sing the songs