Who is the "Tolkien Master" in your house?

[AbercrombieOfRohan]

Same with me Lalwende, the first time I played LotR trivial Pursuit, I won in record time. My family now refuses to play with me, and I'm forced to play with myself *cries* or unsuspecting victims... muahaha...

[Anguirel]

Undoubtedly me. My parents both read the Hobbit but failed to get further (my mother, now a novelist, couldn't endure the word "eleventy-one"), my brother's favoured reading matter is "Which Car" magazine, and my sister has only seen the films, partly in order to declare how paltry they are, partly, of course, because she likes to watch them.

I got my mother to watch the films. She was impressed by the architecture and landscapes, enamoured of Viggo, but scared of the Orcs and the violence...

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

There's a steady regress in my family:

- I am the enthusiast.

- My younger brother likes the books and is very critical of the films.

- My mother read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and liked them but thinks that it's all just good entertainment and nothing worth being remotely serious over.

- My father criticises everything about Tolkien in a crude and highly ridiculous manner, despite not having read any of the books.

So we're very well-balanced!

[Elentari_Elbereth]

If we ever talk about LotR or Tolkien in class I'm asked to explain things, and I do so in a very informative way last week I was asked to explain the Ents- that was fun!

My youngest sister won't read the books ( I read them when I was 9 and unerstood them) but loves the movies and likes the liv-tyler-arwen (yuck)

Almost everything i've written this year for english class had been about Tolkien or LotR, and I received excellent grades

speaking of which, who REALLY wished Glorfindel was in the movie? I was outraged for a very long time...

[Firefoot]

Me. 'Nuff said.

Seriously, though, the next closest thing is my brother, who I think has yet to read RotK. He really liked the Hobbit, and has enjoyed the movies, however I think he is not yet mature enough to appreciate LotR. He routinely refers to Sam as a "fat idiot" ( ); he doesn't like Frodo either *tsk tsk*. He tends to miss the finer points of the book.

Then there's my mom, who at least has gleaned some knowledge in the years since I first read LotR, and was able to appreciate a joke my aunt made concerning my cousin's friend, Gollum, and "precious." However, once while watching LotR, she was nearby and I guess was listening a bit and asked about Gandalf: "So is he the bad guy?"

And my dad, well, has made no effort.

So. Me. 'Nuff said.

[Thinlómien]

That game of LotR Trivial Pursuit was amusing though.

You should appreciate that someone agrees to play it with you... I asked it for a Christmas present (after I had lost the geography-Trivial Pursuit to both my mom and my little sister several times) and my mom said: "You can probably have it if you want, but no one promises to play it with you. I won't play it with you." And my sister said "Neither I" and so I didn't ask it because there's no sense in playing it alone...

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

You should appreciate that someone agrees to play it with you... I asked it for a Christmas present (after I had lost the geography-Trivial Pursuit to both my mom and my little sister several times) and my mom said: "You can probably have it if you want, but no one promises to play it with you. I won't play it with you." And my sister said "Neither I" and so I didn't ask it because there's no sense in playing it alone...

Last time I played it, they let me be two characters in a row. Sort of a handicap.

I still filled Frodo and Galadriel both (one after the other) before they filled their characters. But they did have fun.