Rereading Tolkien - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Marlowe221 · 09-18-2014, 09:31 AM

Personally, my re-reading of Tolkien has evolved to the point that I mostly reread passages that I especially like rather than the whole book.

I do this very much in the way that many people read passages of their religious text(s) of choice but rarely read the whole work from cover to cover.

Of course roughly once every 12-18 months I will re-read The Hobbit or LoTR in their entirety. But the frequency of my whole-readings has diminished over the past few years and my passage-reading has become more frequent.

09-18-2014, 09:31 AM	#1
Marlowe221 Pile O'Bones Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 18	Personally, my re-reading of Tolkien has evolved to the point that I mostly reread passages that I especially like rather than the whole book. I do this very much in the way that many people read passages of their religious text(s) of choice but rarely read the whole work from cover to cover. Of course roughly once every 12-18 months I will re-read The Hobbit or LoTR in their entirety. But the frequency of my whole-readings has diminished over the past few years and my passage-reading has become more frequent.