Not as easy as Fellowship... blah.
I still love the story, but did we really have to put ALL of the stuff in the west in the first half and make the second half ALL ABOUT FRODO?!?!?!? UGH!!
That whole thing would have been so much more tolerable if it had been in 15 page chunks.
Though, I must say, the section with Faramir was all the more lovely after how the movies butchered his character.
I especially love the spot in the book where he basically says, "Look, Boromir was my brother, and I love him, but it's okay, I know he was kind of an idiot."
Soooo many things that I desperately wish had made it into the movie, and soooooooooo many things that I wish hadn't been.
Probably the hardest of the trilogy to read, (slog, slog, trudge, trudge, slog) but it's not like you can skip it, lol.
I still love the story, but did we really have to put ALL of the stuff in the west in the first half and make the second half ALL ABOUT FRODO?!?!?!? UGH!!
ReplyDeleteThe thing to remember is that it isn't one book split in two, but two books combined in one volume. Technically speaking, there are six books in The Lord of the Rings, not three. The two storylines, "The Treason of Isengard" and "The Journey of the Ringbearers" are thus treated as separate instalments.
I agree about Faramir, and the things that didn't make it in.
Oh I know. It just would have been far easier for me to read if the books had been divided chronologically, like in Fellowship, rather than having each devoted to separate storylines. "The Journey of the Ringbearers" was a little hard to swallow in such a large dose!
ReplyDeleteAh, well, at least Frodo doesn't send Sam away in the book.