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Glenethor · 03-09-2002, 02:57 AM

I've read it once a year, ritually (I usually start it in September, which is A) the month I first read it and B) Bilbo and Frodo's birthdays) since 1977. I still have my original paperbacks of The Silmarillion and TTT, back when they were like $2.75.<P>I am really pleased to see more and more people pick up Tolkien's work. I think it a real stretch for some that they can hate the movie and at the same time sneer at the fact that the movie is bringing the books alive in our culture again. It is also seriously insulting toward women.

03-09-2002, 02:57 AM	#32
Glenethor Wight Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow Posts: 176	I've read it once a year, ritually (I usually start it in September, which is A) the month I first read it and B) Bilbo and Frodo's birthdays) since 1977. I still have my original paperbacks of The Silmarillion and TTT, back when they were like $2.75.<P>I am really pleased to see more and more people pick up Tolkien's work. I think it a real stretch for some that they can hate the movie and at the same time sneer at the fact that the movie is bringing the books alive in our culture again. It is also seriously insulting toward women. __________________ "Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people, living life in peace..." Dr. Winston O'Boogie