POLL: How many times have you read LOTR?

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Poll Results: How many times have you read LOTR? (36 votes.)

How many times have you read LOTR? (Choose 1)
* 0 - 17% (6)
* 1-2 - 31% (11)
* 3-4 - 22% (8)
* 5-6 - 11% (4)
* 7-8 - 6% (2)
* 9-10 - 3% (1)
* 11+ - 11% (4)

 

11+ for me, and that's yhis year alone. Same goes for the SIlmaroillion, as well... Unfinished tales is still in the re-read phrase...

I love Tolkien. Period.

I am insatiable enough to resort to Tolkien fanfic....

 

Too many times, that's all I have to say about that.....


[Edit]
Wow my 500th post

 

Only twice. And both times were about four years ago. I really should read it again.

 

I have all the books but so far I've only read The Hobbit.

I haven't had time to read them yet

 

You need an option for "Don't know." It's been 20+ years since I was first introduced to LOTR, and I've quite lost track of how many times I've read it.

 

I have read them at least fifteen times (my best guess would be twnety times). Like Rallymama I first read them twenty years ago and it is kind of hard to recall each seperate time reading them.

 

Wow! You how can you people read them so many times? I have read the entire series three times with a few years between each and in both rereadings I have been struck by how little I really like them. Where does the fanaticism comes from? It cant come from the characters as Tolkien's character are extremely shallow and stylisized and the story is quite generic (which is very common and nothing wrong really but it makes me wonder how it stands out from others). Tolkien's main aim and what he reached with the books was to get something he could use the world and mythology he had created. The world in itself is a mighty thing and it is for that and for Tolkien's creative use of theft and borrowing (all authors do this, Tolkien stole and borrowed very original things) he holds a place for posteriy. Again I ask, from where comes the fanaticism?

 

I have to agree with Joac too. LotR was just so difficult to read. The only way I got past FotR was because I watched the movie beforehand. But, really, if you've read a book, particulary a fantasy book, at least half a dozen times, I would think the magic (so to speak) would have dissipated by then.

 

At least twice a year for the last seven or eight years - sometimes more, if I get the itch. I tend to lock myself in a room for three days and just inhale Tolkien and nothing else. So I truly have no idea how many times I have read LotR (or the Silmarillion, or any of the other Tollers books I have) - but I know that it is waaaaaaaaaaay more than eleven!

 

I have been known to reread books dozens of times... I may know the story, but the details will lose themselves after a few years, and sometimes I've read so many books that I forget the plot to a few.
And how many times have I read Tolkien? 1 1/2. The first time I became so disgusted with not having any clue what was going on that I gave it up halfway through. The second time and just recently, I had to do as Oaz did... I read it after I saw the movie. (and had the "OOOOH!" experience several times.)
The world of Tolkien? Marvelous. The writing style? I have never seen any book that uses so many words to say so little.

 

That is both one of the reasons I think the movies are so grand, and the reason I've read the thing more than once.

I like the movies because one sweep of the camera over a breathtaking panorama covers nine pages of convoluted (but extremely lyrical!) descriptions of scenery. My first time(s) through I tended to skim these passages and find the action, so now every time I READ it I get a little more out of it. After reading the Silmarillion, the poetry in LOTR also came to life much more strongly for me.

I think the only other book I've re-read as often is Gone WIth The Wind.

 

Wow, the people are more fanatical than previously anticipated. (Don't worry people, I am fast becoming like you, going through it for the third time, plus reading the first three The History of Middle Earth books and having read The Silmarillion twice).

 

I only 'discovered' it about 4 years ago and have only read it once. Though one day I will buy my own copy...

 

3 times, I think.

It's not an easy book to read at all. And all the elf-worship really pissed me off.

 

Yeah, elves mostly suck.

LOTR in four years has been read twenty times atleast and Silmarillion five.

 

I'm on my third time, but I only started two years ago.

 

Well I've tried reading them about 4 times, does that count? I never can get through and finish the entire trilogy. I mean, I love the Hobbit and I like the Fellowship of the Ring, but somewhere in the Two Towers and/or the Return of the King I get bored and stop reading them. I always sort of felt that Tolkein just gets to a point where it becomes nothing but battles and Frodo and Sam getting lost and kidnapped and falling down rocks and tunnels. So I said 3-4 times but I've never really finished.

I the movies though.

 

Once, halfway through silmarillion. I'm chained by reason, and many things seem to lose their "sense of realism" if you will. I discussed with Joa at some point, and mentioning the lack of progress in the world really.. made my thinkers turn =) in mythology, true, things don't really progress that fast, but with a history span of that many years at least something should have come up.

the detail of his world however, beyond comparison
I'd say the story is a challenge and sometimes drown in its own immensity for the uninitiated.