I'm just coming to the end of the hobbit, and it's just delightful. There's no other way to describe it.
I usually read classic literature, and I picked up The Hobbit about two years ago for it to die a death on my TBR shelf, but after finishing Kafka's The Castle, I fancied something a bit more light-hearted.
The Hobbit absolutely sucked me in. I have to admit, aside from the Harry Potter series and The Book of Lost Things/The Land of Lost Things, I haven't read any fantasy at all, but I will admit the last time a book truly pulled me in, I mean full on, when I'm not reading it I'm wishing I was, full immersion, was The Book/Land of lost things.
With the above in mind, I looked up The Lord of The Rings, as I know it's by the same author and is meant as a sequel to The Hobbit. But apparently The Hobbit was written with children in mind, whereas the sequel series is more dark fantasy? I've really enjoyed reading The Hobbit, but will I enjoy the sequel? Please weigh in, and thanks for reading.
by relevantusername-
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LOTR is a bit of a slog, even for fantasy readers just based on Tolkein’s purpley style. If you enjoy heavy description and lots of exposition, though, you may like it. He creates very detailed and interesting worlds and characters.
Yes absolutely read Lord of the Rings, you will love it.
Totally different books in some ways very simialr in others
If the Hobbit was Tolkien’s setting of medieval children’s tales The Lord of the Rings is his treatment of the poetic and military epics of the same era
All I will say is if you don’t like them you don’t like them. Obsessively great world building, fantastic poetry in some sections, but Tolkien isn’t really a drama or characters person and his sense of pace and timing is mlre medieval poem than gripping page turner
Pick up fellowship and if you hate it by the time you’re more than halfway through don’t try the rest… they get better but they never get different