Parts We Skip and Why - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Snowdog · 12-31-2012, 01:21 AM

I've read the trilogy over a dozen times through in the last 37 years. Sometimes I'd glaze over (wouldn't call it "skipping") the Tom Bombadil bit, and sometimes glaze over the Treebeard bits on some of the readings. That said, I started reading parts of Unfinished Tales during my readings. I will read Disaster on Gladden Fields before I start, and read the Fords of Isen when I get to that part of the book. It's funny that the first Tolkien book I read was The Hobbit in 1975, but never found it necessary to ever read it again.

12-31-2012, 01:21 AM	#14
Snowdog Emperor of the South Pole Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: The Western Shore of Lake Evendim Posts: 671	I've read the trilogy over a dozen times through in the last 37 years. Sometimes I'd glaze over (wouldn't call it "skipping") the Tom Bombadil bit, and sometimes glaze over the Treebeard bits on some of the readings. That said, I started reading parts of Unfinished Tales during my readings. I will read Disaster on Gladden Fields before I start, and read the Fords of Isen when I get to that part of the book. It's funny that the first Tolkien book I read was The Hobbit in 1975, but never found it necessary to ever read it again.