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Old 08-15-2007, 11:05 AM   #34
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Originally Posted by alatar View Post

If you truly want people to share the joy that is reading LotR, wouldn't you want them to get into it anyway that they could, even if it meant skipping a few slower chapters or even seeing the Peter Jackson films first?
Who said anything about wanting to share the joy?

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Not sure that that'd work for everyone. Check out the usual book selling sites and read the reviews of those that give FotR a poor rating (the horrors! ). Some see it as "dull" and quit reading it after "60" or so pages.

Another soul lost.
That's horrible. Another soul lost indeed!
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