Yay! Go Two Towers! Do you like the parts with Frodo and Sam in Mordor? My father and my oldest sister, ardent Tolkien fans both, don’t like those bits and skim through them, but I enjoy them a lot.

Hahaha, well, maybe when I reread his letters, when he is writing nice responses to people who wrote him about Lord of the Rings, I will imagine him friendlier in heaven. 😛

But yeah, I love Tom Bombadil and the River Daughter and Old Man Willow and the rainy day at Tom’s house. I was kind of glad Peter Jackson left him out, because there’s no way a movie could do him justice and this way he still belongs only to readers. Although Jackson did have the wit to include a bit of Old Man Willow in Fangorn.

Okay, so you’re now the second person who struggled to get through Two Towers – I’m dying to know what the snag was. Any particular scene? That one’s my favorite of the three, by a good margin. Was it the Ents? They are very slow.

Oh, no Jen, lots of people love Bombadil. I don’t get it either, but the vast number of people who I have talked to who love Bombadil and hate the movie for leaving him out is….um….vast?

I’ve come to accept I have a bad habit of loving the character everyone else loathes! 😉

I do hope you enjoy the first books more this time around. The Hobbit is altogether different in tone from LOTR, and it’s my least favorite of the four main books, but it does have its charms. I think most readers hit a few snags on the first read. For me, it was the first half of Two Towers that nearly ground my reading to a halt.

I rather liked Tom Bombadil but was so glad he didn’t appear in the films. How could he not look ridiculous on film?

Thank you! Glad I was able to brighten your day!

Thanks! But, um, you loved Tom Bombadil? I thought nobody ever loved Tom Bombadil!