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Subject: Bungle, Are You Kidding Me?

Author:
Jimmy

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Date Posted: 03:25:09 02/09/09 Mon
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Saturday night I had absolutely nothing to do. Depression began to mount. I found "The Lord of the Rings" novels my sister bought me and, out of sheer desperation, finally opened to platic and pulled out the Fellowship.

The tedium that the prologues on text and other superfluous bullshit began to incite pure rage. But for some reason I stuck it out. I felt I would find something more in the underpinnings of the book (having enjoyed the films immensely).

Within 5 pages I was raptured. I read the entire first part to completion and was eating Adderalls only to stay awake. I couldn't put it down.

There was only one section that felt unnecessary and that was when Tom the forest dude comes to save them from whatever captured them.

But everything else only expands upon my enjoyment of the movies. The forrest chapters succeed in sending my mind into the same reverie the boys faced. And then when Stryder comes along you're infused with overwhelming zeal. I loved that he had more interaction with Pippin in calling him out for being a pussy and then praising Merry right in front of him.

Tolkien not only cares about every creature that is good but he also delivers the best description I've ever read. This, in my opinion, is because he's not inserting it out of some obligation but rather because, like chapter (save the one I noted) every paragraph, and word are integral to the overall message.

That message: Good vs Evil with the uncomfortable underlying suggestion that blond-haired, blue-eyed men and women are the descendants of gods.

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: Bungle, Are You Kidding Me?	Mr. Bungle	13:37:40 02/23/09 Mon
Re: Bungle, Are You Kidding Me? -- Jimmy, 12:21:28 06/28/09 Sun