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I said I was reading 10 novels this year, and this is a book I started last year but I'm counting books I started last year because I make the rules here.
My boyfriend is very into LoTR and we're seeing the movies at Alamo Drafthouse in January, and I said I was going to finish this book before we saw Return of the King this Saturday, and so, I did. Well, I got to the end of the actual story with 3 hours and 33 minutes left of the audiobook for the appendices which my boyfriend said weren't especially worth listening to, and I've been trying to speed-listen to this book so I think I'm done for now.
I feel like I wouldn't have been able to get through this book if it weren't for the audio, especially because of how much of it is human king drama and I can't say that a lot of the human king drama is stuff that I have been especially invested in, despite that being like... the point of a lot of the books, I guess. One of the big issues I have with the books though is where are all the Dwarves? I get they're supposed to be seclusive but I have a hard time believing that Gimli was the only one who would have cared, and it's not like the Shire was unaffected the whole time. Even the Ents got off their asses. Where were they? And then Gimli went off to the West with Legolas. I get that Dwarves apparently helped rebuild the Human kingdom but like, there's something pretty apocalyptic about Gimli being the only Dwarf we see around, seeing Moira as a graveyard, and then going to the west with Legolas, especially given what we know of Tolkein writing the Dwarves by drawing inspiration from the Jews.
I dunno, I just finished today. The Lord of the Rings is a big series, I'm sure there's more to digest.
My boyfriend is very into LoTR and we're seeing the movies at Alamo Drafthouse in January, and I said I was going to finish this book before we saw Return of the King this Saturday, and so, I did. Well, I got to the end of the actual story with 3 hours and 33 minutes left of the audiobook for the appendices which my boyfriend said weren't especially worth listening to, and I've been trying to speed-listen to this book so I think I'm done for now.
I feel like I wouldn't have been able to get through this book if it weren't for the audio, especially because of how much of it is human king drama and I can't say that a lot of the human king drama is stuff that I have been especially invested in, despite that being like... the point of a lot of the books, I guess. One of the big issues I have with the books though is where are all the Dwarves? I get they're supposed to be seclusive but I have a hard time believing that Gimli was the only one who would have cared, and it's not like the Shire was unaffected the whole time. Even the Ents got off their asses. Where were they? And then Gimli went off to the West with Legolas. I get that Dwarves apparently helped rebuild the Human kingdom but like, there's something pretty apocalyptic about Gimli being the only Dwarf we see around, seeing Moira as a graveyard, and then going to the west with Legolas, especially given what we know of Tolkein writing the Dwarves by drawing inspiration from the Jews.
I dunno, I just finished today. The Lord of the Rings is a big series, I'm sure there's more to digest.
