hmmm good evening everyone... i guess maybe its just me but i loved reading the books in the lord of the rings trilogy and this was before they were split up...my father handed me a choice 20,000 leagues under the sea... a smaller book... or a large thick book that had been printed from his youth... the lord of the rings... i took the smaller one when i was 8, and decided it would be better...however i soon changed my mind and decided maybe i could actually read and understand the english that was in the lord of the rings book...
That huge thick book (which included the hobbit and all three books of the trilogy) took me places in my imagination...it gave vivid images to my mind and took me to places that only a child could really see and learn to love. I think Tolkien had a grand idea by paying so much attention to detail so as to draw the reader in.... and im going to say it ... kinda like the whole geneaology given in the bible....gives u a whoooole lot of details about people that i know i for one skipped over a million times just to get to the good part about and Jesus was the son of Mary and Joseph...(which he really wasnt...but lets leave it at that)...
so i actually like the descriptions...kinda adds a little mystery...and patience...almost like Treebeard said...we humans tend to do things tooooooo fast and i agree!