Whats the shortest time youve taken to read Lotr

[Iarwain]

Mine is three weeks. I was bored and homework was lacking. I was amazed that I could read it that fast.

[Tirned Tinnu]

I am sure it was the first time I read it. I was so young! I stayed in my room everyday and read, read, read. I believe it took me a month. Now I take much longer, savouring each word, and researching each little bit that I cannot remember. smilies/wink.gif

[Ringwraith Number Two]

I first read The Lord of the Rings in the Christmas holidays, and was completely immersed in it, doing nothing but reading the book. I finished it in a week and started reading it again smilies/smile.gif It was most definetly the most engrossing book I had ever read smilies/biggrin.gif

[ September 08, 2002: Message edited by: Ringwraith Number Two ]

[arelendil]

it takes me a couple of hours to read the hobbit but LOTR is not something to be rushed!!

[gollum*elf*pup]

I dunno. Sometimes I'm a really fast reader and sometimes I'm so slow it takes me a day to finish one page. (okay, that was exaggerating a little)

[Eärendil]

Well, when I have summer holiday (or weekend) and decide to spend a few days indoors reading, then it usually takes over a day or two to read the trilogy (I am a fast reader). The Silmarillion takes a few days (the English one, that is.) The Hobbit takes a few hours, but then the language is "easier".
I am currently reading the trilogy for the 8th time, second time this year. And then I´ll read The Silmarillion in English again. Lovely! smilies/smile.gif

[Tigerlily Gamgee]

The first time it took me about 2 1/2 weeks to get through LOTR. I may have gone slower though if I wasn't challenging my friend who was reading it at the exact same time smilies/smile.gif

[Galadrie1]

I'm a really slow reader sometimes, and I took a really long time to finish FotR (like a month or something). I finished TTT in a week (it would've taken my longer but I was racing my friend to see who could get it done first) and I read RotK in five days (only because another friend challenged me to read it all before the end of Spring Break, and I remembered about the bet when there was only 5 days left).

[Arie]

...well I can probably finish the Trilogy in less than a month-if I'm really that bored...

[Aramacil]

I am going to read the books for the second time now, i don't think the books should be read so fast because you just can't understand the complete picture of the books if you read it to fast.

[Donisile Of Mirkwood]

The first time i read the series inc The Hobbit it took me about 3 weeks but the secong it took me a week. The Hobbit i can read in a day easily....

[Arwen Imladris]

For the whole "triligy", less then a week, 5 or 6 days, I forget. But all I did for that time was read and practice the piano, eat, and a little sleep. The hobbit, 3 hours. Other books took longer. smilies/smile.gif

[Hanna_Gamgee]

The first time I read the trilogy it took me abot 4 or 5 days to read it.

[Alkanoonion]

I can read one Book a day, so the 3 books take me 3 days.

[Eruwen]

Well, I got all of the LOTR books individually. It took me about a month for the first, about a month for the second, and a day and a half for the third. So, about 2 months and 2 days.

[Salix]

Mwahaha I beat you all! The first time I read LOTR i read it in less then 12 hours! Closer to 9 actually. smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Mister Underhill]

That's not reading. That's called "flipping the pages".

[Salix]

I was not!

[Salix]

That is, flipping the pages. I WAS reading! Is it my fault that I'm a fast reader?

[Mister Underhill]

See those little icons on top of your posts? The one on the far right is for editing. Perhaps you "read" things here at the site too quickly and missed that little tidbit, but it's a valuable tool and saves you from needless double-posting.

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[LaurinaAinur]

I am a very fast reader, so I took about two hours per book...maybe a bit less for TTT. I read an average of 15 books per week.

[Alkanoonion]

I am a very fast reader, so I took about two hours per book...maybe a bit less for TTT. I read an average of 15 books per week.

Reading books the fastest is ok but do you enjoy the book as much as if you let the details seep in.
I can read a book in a day, that’s without interruptions but then I have also read the books over 100x in the last 15 yrs. Why rush a good book? Take your time and enjoy all the details. with me a book will always win over TV.

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[ September 09, 2002: Message edited by: Alkanoonion ]

[Armadoin]

It took me about 5 1/2 hours for my shortest reading, including all 4 books, but I have to admit, now I try and read it slower so I get more out of it. I think I might have all of you beat though! smilies/biggrin.gif

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[Mister Underhill]

If you read even just the three books of LotR in five and half hours, you'd be "reading" over thirty words per second. Throw in The Hobbit, and it jumps up to around thirty-five words per second. Of course, those numbers jump way up if you take time out to, oh, say, go to the bathroom or get a bite to eat or glance up from the page for a few seconds.

I can only say again, that ain't reading. Skimming maybe, but not reading.

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[Armadoin]

Well, I never said you had to believe me, so you can say what you will.No hard feelings. smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

[Morgul Queen]

Well my Record for the Hobbit is 2 hours but my record for the lord of the rings is about 15 hours of straight reading but i normally take around a month because of all the research and going over each little thing about ten times yada yada yada
*sigh* i feel sorry for my copy... its 9 months old now and its got no cover, introduction or authors note because they fell of with all the reading...and im not joking!!!!! smilies/mad.gif

[LaurinaAinur]

Most of the books that I read like that are new...ones that I have never heard of before and that I want to know what they are about and have a basic knowlege about them without having to being able to quote half of it. Then, if I like the book enough, I will re-read it a bit more slowly, savoring it, you might say. There is to me no reason to spend 2 weeks on a book, only to find out at the end you didn't really like it. But believe me, speed reading works. It might not all be committed to memory, but you know what you need to know. Anyway! This may be a bit off the original subject...ooops! Sorry!

[charly]

My record is two days... and the encluding nights smilies/wink.gif .I´d started several times by then, but never come past the prologe. Over Chrismas I decided "This time you´re gonna read that book!" And, as soon as I plunged into the story, I couldn´t stop! My family was really annoyed ´cause I was only reading the whole time... it was x-mas after all. So, on the first night I read till 6 am, slept untill ten, had finished TTT by 2 AM next morning and fell asleep over RotK, wich I finished next day... and I actually got the whole thing! When I read the second time it took me about a week, and that´s about my average.

[Evisse the Blue]

the first time = a week for the whole trilogy. staying up at night and all.(I was on holiday)
I was in a rush to finish because I had borrowed from a friend who wanted it back before I went back to university.

[Ar-drenal]

I read the dutch version for the first time when I was about 12. It took me about 4 weeks to read. The english version I read when I was 16 and then it took me about 3 weeks. If I would reread it now (I'm 25), it would probably take me a week (but that's only because I know the book now and my english improved a lot over the years).

[Galadriel55]

The first time I've read LOTR it took me about a month - would you expect anything better of a 9-year-old? When I reread it the summer before last, it took me 1 week. I've just reread it recently again, but I have a lot of homework and other commitements, so it took me 3 weeks. It's probably not the work that slowed me down, though, but savouring every word (like others said before me :)).

[xMellrynxMaidenx]

A week tops for each book (minus the Sil), give or take. That's usually how long it takes me for any lengthy novel, BUT that's if I don't read during the nights, add that in and it's usually a little less than a week. ;)

[Galadriel55]

If I read during the nights I can read LOTR in 5 days. 7 if I read only during the day. Unless I have lots of schoolwork.

[Galadriel]

It's never particularly taken me a 'short' time. I don't read slowly, but I never read for more than an hour and a half at a time. I can juggle five books at a time, but I can never sit there for eight hours and read :(
So...considering all that it usually takes me a month to read it :p

[Galadriel]

The first time I've read LOTR it took me about a month - would you expect anything better of a 9-year-old?

You're making me feel very bad, friend...

[Galadriel55]

Sorry for that... didn't mean to...

[Galadriel]

Sorry for that... didn't mean to...

Relax, I was joking ;)

[Khazad-dûm]

I've only read It once all the way threw so far (I'm in the process of reading it again after I just finished a month ago). It takes me about a month to read each book. I like to read carefully and look up peoples names that pop up so that I understand better. Also I like to re-read chapters like the bridge of Khazad-dûm ( It's my favorite if you couldnt tell by my username).

[Almesiva Moonshadow]

Since I am a very slow reader, it took me nearly a month to read the Fellowship...
...yep...an entire month!!!...:eek:

:D

...in truth,I was only lazy to read any faster...:p

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Five days, the first time I read it. The next couple of times that I've actually read LotR through from the Fellowship to the Return of the King it took me a while longer, since I actually had things like homework to do. Also, laziness takes over, even with Tolkien. I still have yet to finish the Return of the Shadow despite the fact that I started it four months ago. :p

[LadyBrooke]

Around two days. It was the first time I got the books and it was a Saturday morning around 10 when I got up and got my birthday presents. I sat on the couch the rest of the day and read till midnight only taking breaks to use the bathroom. I even read while I eat. I managed to get almost finished with TTT. The next morning when I got up the first thing I did was grab a bagel, toast it, and eat it while I read. I finished around the time we got back from my dad's to my mom's so six p.m.ish.


It was a beginning of an obsession.:D