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or any other tolkien
I thought of this when re-reading my reply at where you found the downs,and noticing that hobbit and LOTR in one day was pretty fast.
so all you speed-readers,can you do better?





(that one day i woke up at 7 a.m.,ate,started reading at 7.30 and read until 9 p.m.)


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Re: what's the fastest time you've ever read LOTR

I used to do LotR in about a week, but I once ran through it during a long weekend. Probably not the best way to do it. But I am a greedy reader; I read Crime and Punishment the first time in one sitting.

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I usually push through each book (FotR, TTT. RotK) in about a week, though I have finished it a few times in about half that. I'd say that a month of leisurely reading gets me through my regular routine of The Hobbit followed by LotR.

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Like galpsi, I am a &quot;greedy reader&quot; and will read straight through a book I like once I begin it--even if it takes all night. (Can't say I was able to survive Crime &amp; Punishment in one sitting though) The good thing is I finish LOTR in 2-3 days -- the bad thing is I have to wait for a free weekend or take days off work.

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Yeah, but the great thing about reading too quickly is I can't possibly absorb everything very effectively, so there's still plenty of significance in the book that I miss and which remains available for the next time I read it. I can never get away with reading anything for school less than twice because of my sieve-like mind.

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i just bought that new one volume edition, now i can put the entire LOTR on the little shelf on the back of the toilet. always where i need it the most.

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Re: what's the fastest time you've ever read LOTR

For how long is the spine on that fat little number guaranteed? (Of course I mean the book.)

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Re: what's the fastest time you've ever read LOTR

Less than two readings if you treat the book normally.
A dozen times or more if you treat it like I do.

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My record for the 3 LOTR is one week. I can usually polish off The Hobbit in half a day. However, no matter how many times I read The Silmarillion, I can never breeze through it because I'm always looking up characters in the appendix.

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For all you guys out there reading the LOTR in one day, one weekend or even one week.

If you read it in one day or one weekend, you cannot be seriously reading it, you are skimming through the book or only looking for certain paragraphs...... NOT REALLY READING IS IT, COME ON BE TRUE TO TOLKIEN.HE IS WORTH MORE TIME THAN THAT.

For those who have read it in one week, good for you, it must be during a holiday and you cannot have any children for I could not do it any more now that I have a son.
I have read the LOTR in one week before, but do not have the luxury any more to achieve such feat...

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Of course you are correct that reading @500pp. a day is not the same as stopping to smell the roses of Imloth Melui. But it need not be mere skimming either. I've read the thing so many times that I could concisely summarize the plot -- chapter by chapter -- without reference. And I surely don't meant it as a boast for there must be countless more productive things that a person could have done with their youth, rather than compulsively rereading three books.
Even three really good books.
But LotR reads a good deal faster now than it did the first several times. I only stop now to linger lovingly on particularly favored passages. When I was very young, I always wanted the Frodo-Sam-Gollum passages to just get by so I could return to the &quot;exciting stuff.&quot; Now I find those relationships among my favorte parts of the book. Gracious Gamegie, wait until the second day to tell us we don't take the book seriously, just for form's sake.<img src=wink.gif ALT="">

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My dear wise Galpsi, I did not mean my comment in any rude way, I would not dare . As you know this is my first day on the board.
I understand that having read it many times, you only need to read particular chapters to feel the LOTR effect.
I wonder what are your favorite passages?

Mine are too many to mention but I like the passage when Strider leads the hobbits through the wilderness, to the ford, and when they reach the trolls place. I don't know why I like it but I have the whole chapter maped out in my mind.

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That's funny, galpsi, because I used to practically skip the boring Sam and Frodo parts when I was younger (after the first 2 or 3 reads). I wanted fights and fire! Now I pick and choose which parts I want to savor, and those very section that dragged on for me when I was a kid are often the ones I enjoy the most.

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35.6 seconds for the entire series. I read fast.

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I used to skip all the battles when I'd reread it because what compelled me, besides Tolkien's writing style itself, was the confrontation of good and evil within and between the individuals. The battle's were awfully boring. I found nothing heroic and noble about mass killing. Necessary or unavoidable, but not entralling. Perhaps that's a &quot;chick-thing.&quot; I didn't enjoy being dragged to all the Civil War battlefields in my home state either. After all some sage once quipped &quot;Men go to war because they can not go through childbirth.&quot; ;-)

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<blockquote>Quote:<hr> I understand that having read it many times, you only need to read particular chapters to feel the LOTR effect.<hr></blockquote>
You still misunderstand me a little. I always read it cover to cover when I read it, though I haven't read it since the mid-eighties. Now I never much crack it unless I want to quote a bit verbatim.
But in answer, I seem lately to be relishing the same bits as the preceding posters. I still idly imagine some battle-sequences, but I prefer almost anything with Sam.

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Re: what's the fastest time you've ever read LOTR

I think my time for reading The Hobbit and LotR this summer was two weeks.

I read The Silmarillion in about a week.

Since those were the first time I'd read them, they're my fastest, and only times. <img src=smile.gif ALT="">


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Galpsi, I was greatly amused by your turn of phrase:
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And I surely don't meant it as a boast for there must be countless more productive things that a person could have done with their youth, rather than compulsively rereading three books.
Even three really good books.
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My youth was equally mis-spent. Not only did my friends and I compulsively re-read the books, we used to sit around and see who could recite the most verbatim. How tragic is *that*! Ah well, I still got enough out of college to get a day job, not to mention some valuable ethics lessons that come in handy there.


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My wife thinks that the time I spend on Tolkien ez-boards now is kind of tragic.

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Hey Galpsi, that is why I use the computer at work to log on........LOL

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I once read the LOTR in about a week... 5 days on the FotR (fitting it in around school) then the other two books on the weekend (reading all day and giving myself a headache). The Hobbit - about one day, the Silmarillion - about a month. I spend too much time looking things up in the appendices to actually read the book. <img src=wink.gif ALT="">

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I have read the sil LoTR and The Hobbit all on The plane From Melbourne (Australia) to London it took me 16 hours and my Mum kept telling me to rest or I would be grumpy all day she couldn't have been more right. That was my second time for the Hobbit and LoTR but first for Sil and I recalled more from that reading than the first when I took two days (not at school) to read it. I was seven then.

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2-3 nights for the LOTR
6 hours for the HOBBIT
Half a mounth at least for the Silm

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as a very slow reader, I enjoy so much...

Hello dear fellows! <img src=smile.gif ALT="">

As a French, I have recently discovered Tolkien and I m reading the LOTR in English. I have decided to do so for more authenticity and upgrading of my language skills...
I have always been a slow reader, so I let you imagine how slow I can read in English...but what a cheerful and spellbinding process! I even re-read some passages twice or three times to enhance the spell and emotions.
I am definitely not a fast-reader, but even if I had the ability to be so, I would still read at the same pace.
It is 3 weeks I have been reading regularly (working, I can only open the book in the evening) and I have read only 180 pages. It's just the beginning of the LOTR, when Strider and the Hobbits have just noticed black riders in the far, and fling themselves to the ground, behind the stone ring...The exciting thing is that I have two contradictory feelings: For sure, i desperately need to read forward, but I am afraid to finish the story!!!
During the day, at work, I feed my imagination and dreams with pictures that I can grab in the Internet. It increases all the more my desire to read...but the pace remains the same!
I am definitely slow and my way to the Mount Doom will be long...very long.

Bye dear you!

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Re: Dagelur

First of all, welcome to the Barrowdowns. I think that perhaps I envy you, reading slowly through LotR for the first time in English. I cana tell that you are relishing every paragraph. I wish you great joy in this and all future readings. It is a wonderful place to be, Middle Earth.

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Re: Dagelur

ditto, Aldaron.

2 nights for the Sil - that was the second time, when I didn't need to look everything up <img src=tongue.gif ALT=":b"> and roughly the same for the Hobbit.

About a week for LoTR, reading all the boring chapters at the start <img src=biggrin.gif ALT="">

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Re: Dagelur

A day for the Hobbit, and about a week for LotR. That was over the winter holidays when i had nothing else to do. Now, i usually only read at night before bed, about one or two chapters, so it takes significantly longer <img src=rolleyes.gif ALT=":rolleyes">

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Usually about a week for a complete reread of LoTR due to work and a day for the Sil. Same for the Hobbit. I have all of HoME, but still can only deal with it in gulps. Read most of at least once, parts more often.

The slowest I ever read any of the books was the first time I read LoTR. At six. And here I thought it would be more adventures of Bilbo. Took me all summer, and I don't think I did much else. Except keep looking at my feet and wonder when the hair would start coming in. My mother remembers that as a fairly quite year <img src=smile.gif ALT="">

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I can read the Hobbit in 2 1/2 hours. Lotr, all three volumes, I can read in about 6 hrs. Usually thought I read 1 book a day to savor it and to pick up things i might have missed. I read 1 book a day every dat of my life. That is why i have read the trilogy 73 times.

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<img src=eek.gif ALT=":eek"> *the dotman applauses matt's efforts* Wow. That's amazing. <img src=biggrin.gif ALT="">

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That is truly amazing. What do you do, Matt, that allows you that much free time every day?

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Well, I don't have much of a life. And school gives me a lot of free time after i have finished everything. And thank you for the applause, dot man.


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I think I enjoy more the times when I can peruse it at my complete leisure and just immerse myself in it.
Leaving a battered copies laying around most of the rooms of my house so that I can read a passage whenever the mood strikes. Not having to worry about reading for any length, because so much of it abides IN my heart already. The comfort of an old friend, the joy of a new field frsh in the spring air on a cloudless day. Wrapping the world around me like a quilt.

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Wow, Amandil that was deep.

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Actually, more like a pig in slop, if the truth be known.

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WOW. *mouth opens and shuts like a goldfish* Wow.
73 times. 73 TIMES.
Geez, I thought I had read LoTR a hell of a lot of times.
Wow.

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I have done it in a day many times. I have read LOTR 14 times and counting...At a leisurely pace I can read it in 16 hours and not miss a single word, even re-reading my favourite parts. As for speed reading Gamgie, well, I can do 2000 words per minute- and that's reading everything. It does take a LOT of effort and is less enjoyable so I don't do that too often. I agree, it is worth taking the time, but some people can naturally read fast. One day I'll memorise it...

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It has been about 3 years since I first started at The Hobbit and LOTR. I had always wondered what the books were about because they had been sitting on my dads bookcase for a LONG time. I have the old versions where the books are black, green, and red: Made by Ballantine Books (With some amazing Cover Art). When I first started The Hobbit, I read so slowly that I got the picture of every sentence in my head, and I am very glad I did. I can read the book fast, but I find that when I read slow, by myself, in dead quiet, my imagination works much better and I really see things as Tolkien describes them. It took me about 3 days of 6 hours reads to almost finish The Hobbit.

Now, you must understand why this was so fascinating to me. I was 12, and I had never read 1 book on my own in my life. I thought they were the most boring things ever. But when I read The Hobbit, I began to like reading. My parents were pretty amazed to say the least. But one day, when I was still reading The Hobbit, my mom stopped me from reading to go do some chore. It really ****ed me off that for the first time I had ever read a book, my parents would stop me for that. So, I made a big mistake, and stopped reading. Soon enough my anger at my mom would have been gone, but then I started playing the computer, and was hooked. I got so into playing games like Diablo 2, that I set aside reading altogether for more than 6 months. Im sure if my mom had known that would happen she wouldnt have stopped me, but she payed for it by me being so obsessed with playing Computer games that I barely left my room.

But eventually I came back to The Hobbit and read it just as slowly as I had before. And that is why I love The Hobbit so much.. Even when I read it fast now, I can see everything in my mind. But, I have to say, that when I read it fast, I sometimes will read a paragraph and then the next minute will have forgotten what I had read.. and that is really bad. So now I read really slowly, and by myself when I can. I would suggest you do the same.

And as for reading LOTR.. It usually takes me about a month and a half to read it through. And I have read it and The Hobbit 3 times through now. Just starting the Sillmarillion. After that, I dont know what book would be best for me to read, The History of The Middle Earhth or Unfinished Tales.

P.S.: Sorry I wrote so much, but Im a fast typer and sometimes I can get caught up and not realize how much Im writing <img src=smile.gif ALT=""> All my time being a computer-geek has made me a nice typer.

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Gandalf, you should read UT first, because it gives you more detailed accounts of events mentioned in LotR, The Hobbit and Sil.

I can read the Hobbit in two days, LotR in a week, and Silmarillion in about 3 days. I took me Half a year to read BoLT 1, but I got interested in other things so it took me a while. I can't believe somebody can read as fast a hegemonmatt, how do you remember what you just read? I guess I just like to savor the books and read them slowly to make them last longer, and to take in the information little by little. 73 times, amazing!!!!!!!!!

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