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I'm going to redo the LOTR audiobooks on my commute over the next few weeks I reckon. Although I redid The Hobbit at the end of last year and didn't enjoy it as much as I remembered.
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It's a kid's book, so it's not going to have the same magic in later life. I think it's the most successful thing he wrote judged on it's own terms and his ambitions for it; LoTR was supposed to be the reawakening of an ancient style of heroic literature, not the foundation of a genre beloved by men who paint their own tabletop miniatures, and the Silmarillion is mostly a collection of his notes that weren't intended for publication (at least, not in that state). But The Hobbit is a pretty good children's story.
Which makes it sound as if I don't like LoTR; not true, but I don't think it ended up what he hoped for.
itsbruce
I'd thought about reading that but scared that it would freak me out too much
I've been seeking comfort in The Lord of The Rings by JRR Tolkien.
Also read this, which was excellent