On 22 Oct 05  20:05:45, Nancy Backus got back to Danny Ceppa    
   -> Re: Tolkien was: Nighty night   
      
    DC> It can be a tough read at times.  I confess to skipping over some    
    DC> the songs/sagas that are thrown in.     
      
    NB> I read the whole thing for the first time when I was in high school.    
    NB> It was partly sorta on a dare, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.  The   
      
   Overall, I enjoyed the series immensely.  I'd love to see Peter    
   Jackson do _The Hobbit_.     
      
    NB> And have since accumulated just about everything Tolkien's written as   
    NB> well, including the books that give some of the background of the   
    NB> elements of Middle Earth, the background mythologies and such... even   
    NB> the extra songs/ sagas...     
      
   I never could get into them.  I've got the _Samirilion_ but never    
   got past the 1st chapter.     
      
      
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