The Hobbit

Did the Warhammer genre, craze whatever come after, or was it inspired by Tolkien? This weekend sees the launch of their miniture figures and their game boxes based on the Lord. It is as they advertise Bilbo's Birthday Weekend. I may just buy 1 Bilbo and 3 Uruk-Hai Warriors, even though (this is for Liana's Thread) I look more like Boromir. Treespotter or what!!!

what do you mean, it is cringeworthy to have the animation of Lord of the rings on tape?! It used to scare me when I was little, but I watched it again recently and really liked it - the style of animation is suitably dark, if a little odd. Its a shame they ran out of money before finishing it though - the ending is somewhat abrubt!

hope you enjoy it. i loved the hobbit when i was a kid; may soon use my eldest as an excuse to read it again - think lord of the rings is more a sequel to the hobbit, not the other way round

Yes, the Hobbit comes before Lord of the Rings. (They should have made a film of it first too). It is an amazing book- It was the first 'grown up' book I read as a kid, and it has had such a positive effect on my imagination and love for reading... I'm sure you'll love it.

Its a Prequel

I used to be obsessed with Tolkien when I was young. Came back to the Hobbit recently and found I still enjoyed it alot - better than Lord of the Rings I think, because it takes itself far less seriously. Nonetheless I'll be watching the first film when it comes out in December (although I've also got the original animation on tape - how cringeworthy is that!)

i loved it as a kid and my kids loved hearing it ... lord of the rings tho i found to be longwinded and dull ... oops

Blasphemy!

curua!!!! don't tell me you are a Rings fan???? ... if so i shall have to immediately reassess you ...

I'm afraid I am, although I do admit it is a bit heavy going in some places... you've got to admire the man's imagination, though, and not many people can say they've spawned an entire genre, let alone made up entire languages for their characters! (Couldn't finish the Silmarillion though- that was just too much...)

Anyone read 'Bored of the Rings' by National Lampoon? Dildo Baggins and all that?

hi bored...there's card game about to kick off in general discussion, you are more than welcome

As I recall, nothing at all seems to happen in The Hobbit up until the "What has he got in his pocketssss ?" scene. I loved Gollum, but Biblo always seemed a bit Bernard Cribbens to me - maybe it is all the pipe-smoking, but for a hero, he seemed like a bit of an old codger. In my defence, it was read at school, where it took twenty weeks of reading for anything to actually happen.