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Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior
I am much the same way. I do not read much fantasy as a genre, but do read as much Tolkien as I can get my hands on. Unfortunately, like many of you who have posted above, most of the people I have met and tried to talk about Tolkien to said that they had not read his books. They are proud to not have read any Tolkien, they think that LotR is boring, despite the fact that they have never read the books and maybe saw the films once. As far as anything else Tolkien has written most don't even know it exists. The Sil? "What's that?" HoME? "Huh?" It goes on.
And me, the only time that I've ever. . . expanded the truth, is maybe sometimes exaggerating how many times I've read LotR.  |
Ditto! (about everything, lol)
I also sometimes "expend the truth" by saying that I know LOTR or The Sil or etc by heart, when I really don't.