I've been reading Lord of the Rings to the kids for the last year. Just a few pages at bedtime.
We've just got to the bit where Viggo Mortensen leaves the guy from lost with Captain Smith out of Titanic.
( Peej, Wed 25 Mar 2015, 11:52, 2 replies, latest was 10 years ago)

My eldest gave up on The Hobbit, and went back to reading David Walliams.
Much as I love Tolkien, I think he's made the right choice.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 25 Mar 2015, 11:57, Reply)

Oh Jesus I hope I never come into contact with another David Walliams book again.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 25 Mar 2015, 11:59, Reply)

I think he's their generation's Roald Dahl.

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 25 Mar 2015, 12:45, Reply)

Mmm
After reading The Lord of the Rings and enjoying it immensely, I remember cracking open The Hobbit and thinking "Were these two even written by the same bloke?"
( .Yeti., Wed 25 Mar 2015, 12:00, Reply)

I read the Silmarillion once
It was painful
( Peej, Wed 25 Mar 2015, 12:02, Reply)

Present from the wife by any chance >?

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 25 Mar 2015, 12:11, Reply)

click

( Peej, Wed 25 Mar 2015, 12:13, Reply)

Tolkien is bollocks.
I've tried a couple of times and given up quite quickly because it's well... shit.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Wed 25 Mar 2015, 12:05, Reply)

you should read them some Stephen R Donaldson instead
Leprosy and rape are much more entertaining than whiny dwarfs and pompous elves
(old man river possible lesbian, Wed 25 Mar 2015, 12:08, Reply)

Get him on Patrick Hamilton. It's important to let them know life is mostly bleak, shit and pointless from an early age.

( Slippery Mick ‏, Wed 25 Mar 2015, 12:10, Reply)

Something tells me the career of a leprous rapist is a short-lived one.

( .Yeti., Wed 25 Mar 2015, 12:10, Reply)

dunno ... he seems to have been writing novels about him for thirty odd years

(old man river possible lesbian, Wed 25 Mar 2015, 12:17, Reply)

Wouldn't your knob just fall off after the first time?

( .Yeti., Wed 25 Mar 2015, 12:18, Reply)

you should read the books
but only if you're an adolescent or a bit thick

they're probably shit to an adult reader
(old man river possible lesbian, Wed 25 Mar 2015, 12:19, Reply)

How could I resist a glowing recommendation like that?

( .Yeti., Wed 25 Mar 2015, 12:20, Reply)

They sound ideal for me
Any tits or explosions in them?
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 25 Mar 2015, 12:20, Reply)

I don't remember
I read the first couple in the 1980s when I was supposed to be doing my English gcse
(old man river possible lesbian, Wed 25 Mar 2015, 12:22, Reply)

"O"ld levels more like

( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 25 Mar 2015, 12:35, Reply)