Tolkien taught in school - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Laitoste · 08-27-2004, 04:47 PM

I, for one, am glad I didn't have to read LotR in school. Whether or not people like it is not my concern here, but that we would not be able to spend enough time on it to truly learn from it. At my school, we usually spend a month to a month and a half reading books a third the size of LotR. To speed through it (1) doesn't give most people enough time to read and understand it and (2) doesn't do it justice.

08-27-2004, 04:47 PM	#27
Laitoste Wight Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Behind the hills Posts: 164	I, for one, am glad I didn't have to read LotR in school. Whether or not people like it is not my concern here, but that we would not be able to spend enough time on it to truly learn from it. At my school, we usually spend a month to a month and a half reading books a third the size of LotR. To speed through it (1) doesn't give most people enough time to read and understand it and (2) doesn't do it justice. __________________ "If we're still alive in the morning, we'll know that we're not dead."~South Park