Lord of the Rings Extended Films
I'm thinking about getting the Lord of the Rings Extended trilogy boxset, as several online companies seem to be selling it for £25 at the moment. I think I should probably see what they're selling it for in the shops first as I feel kind of guilty about the shops suffering so badly. With a bit of luck it might be a similar sort of price what with the sales being on. I'm still considering reading the book at some point and I'm thinking by watching the extended versions I'm building up gradually to it:)
I'm presently half way through the fourth book in the Noble Dead series, which is described as being a cross between Lord of the Rings and Buffy, and so far I'm enjoying the series very much. I'm a little worried about how the series will end but I refuse to read the last page of book six as I know if it's a depressing ending I won't read anymore it.
I should like the Lord of the Rings books as I enjoyed the Lord of the Rings films, however, I think one of the main things putting me off is the translation aspect. Tolkien wrote the books in Russian, so really your dependent on how good or bad the translator is and the only other book I read which was translated from Russian was Dr Zhivago which I found nightmare-ish when I tried to read it for an assignment at school. There were a great number of characters all of which seemed to have different names they were known by, I think there was even an index page with a list of the characters and their various names. So whilst I would like to read it I do have concerns about whether I'll actually be able to cope with the text.
ETA: Apparently, I was getting mixed up with Tolstoy. Having watched a couple of special features on my brand new LOTR box set, it turns out that Tolkien spent most of his life in the UK (so he wrote primarily in english perhaps with a bit of elvish thrown in? So I no longer have any excuse for not reading it, except of course that I need to finish reading the Noble Dead series first.
I'm presently half way through the fourth book in the Noble Dead series, which is described as being a cross between Lord of the Rings and Buffy, and so far I'm enjoying the series very much. I'm a little worried about how the series will end but I refuse to read the last page of book six as I know if it's a depressing ending I won't read anymore it.
I should like the Lord of the Rings books as I enjoyed the Lord of the Rings films, however, I think one of the main things putting me off is the translation aspect. Tolkien wrote the books in Russian, so really your dependent on how good or bad the translator is and the only other book I read which was translated from Russian was Dr Zhivago which I found nightmare-ish when I tried to read it for an assignment at school. There were a great number of characters all of which seemed to have different names they were known by, I think there was even an index page with a list of the characters and their various names. So whilst I would like to read it I do have concerns about whether I'll actually be able to cope with the text.
ETA: Apparently, I was getting mixed up with Tolstoy. Having watched a couple of special features on my brand new LOTR box set, it turns out that Tolkien spent most of his life in the UK (so he wrote primarily in english perhaps with a bit of elvish thrown in? So I no longer have any excuse for not reading it, except of course that I need to finish reading the Noble Dead series first.