Lord of the Rings boring books

[William Cloud Hicklin]

Once you get past the Tim Benzedrine bits, the Bombadil chapters contain some of the finest writing in The Lord of the Rings.

[Nerwen]

Orphalesion, I'm not offended at all- if it came across that way, well, you know, it's hard to get the "tone" right over the net.

Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin

Once you get past the Tim Benzedrine bits, the Bombadil chapters contain some of the finest writing in The Lord of the Rings.

True. All the same, if you were going to pick a section that *could* be excised without too much effect on anything else, that would be a better choice than the Rohan chapters.

[Lotrelf]

The discussion went way too deeper than I had imagined, and slightly 'beyond' my own understanding.
Books are not perfect, true. None is. Absolutely. By any means boring? Hell, no. Am I the only one who found no part boring as others did? Shire scenes are mindblowingly beautiful. You get to know, this is the race the story is mainly about. The unlikely four heroes emerge from this place whose presence affects the story greatly(One can find these chapters boring either he is only in love with 'action' or doesn't care about the Hobbits much, imho). The chapters are childish, indeed, not boring. Bilbo wrote them, and the tone of "The Hobbit" is explicit in the first chapters of the Fellowship. Though, they are relief for me, because the later story becomes darker.
As for the book 3 & book 5, i.e. Rohan and Gondor's story. That isn't boring either. True, it doesn't have the magic that we got in FOTR, but it still tells the tale of EPIC freaking awesome battles. Professor wrote books multiple times and finished it in 10 years. He added many things that most of us can't understand or judge on our own. This is why putting our opinion above Professor's, I don't think, is fine(may be that's just me!).

Tom Bombadil!
Yup, he's a weirdo. There's an article saying he is evil. Another thing to add, if someone finds books boring, I guess it is because of his or her personal opinion, and the books can't be accused for that.

[Belegorn]

I liked the story from the beginning to the end too. I guess people don't like Hobbits, or their customs and way of living at least. I thought the Shire part was cool, and the prologue.