Can children appreciate The Lord of the Rings? - Page 2 - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Maltagaerion · 01-26-2002, 03:22 PM

I was fairly young when my mom handed me my first copy of The Hobbit. 9 I think...it was a long time ago. At any rate I was already an avid reader. My mom recently told me that the librarian at the library we always went to couldn't beleive I was actually reading all those books I was checking out.

Rosie Posie Burrows · 01-27-2002, 07:58 AM

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Originally posted by The Mirrorball Man:
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I sympathize, I really do. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] But the "hard work" is called poetry. And if you work hard enough, you might even enjoy it. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]</STRONG>

Oh, it's not that I don't like poetry, but the comprehension questions that we get on it in English papers make it sound like every single word symbolises something else. It's those sort of poems I don't like so much… I like poems that tell a story (Tolkein's poetry for instance!), not the really abstract ones which never mean what it looks like they mean, if you see what I mean (?!). But the teachers always give us those. Probably because they know they're harder!
Oh, and in answer to the previous post, my English teacher does usually take us to see the plays, so she's not too bad really. When I was writing about Shakespeare being a pain, I wasn't referring to her. I was really referring to studying Macbeth two years ago with a different English teacher. Because it was a very advanced play for our age group, she went at baby-pace, explaining almost every word. I've always been good at English and I could follow Macbeth fine. It was a drag having to read at a fifth of the speed I was used to. I was usually five pages ahead of the rest of the class when we were reading it… So that was boring. We never got to go and see it either. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

Eldar14 · 01-27-2002, 11:42 AM

I feel for you on that issue. I've never read a book in any class at the pace I like to. I actually usually ending up reading it twice in the time it takes the class to read it once. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Aralaithiel · 01-27-2002, 03:33 PM

What I despised about my English classes was that the teacher had a certain set of answers to the comprehension and analysis questions that everyone had to come up with. They never allowed for divergent analyses of the books we were "forced" to read. I say forced, because the curriculum only had certain books we were allowed to study...none of this pick a book that you would want to read & analyze! And this was an American school...in Oklahoma! ACK! [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]
Oh, I read The Hobbit when I was 7, and LOTR when I was eight or nine.

Sindalómiel · 01-28-2002, 04:09 AM

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Originally posted by Aralaithiel:
<STRONG>They never allowed for divergent analyses of the books we were "forced" to read. I say forced, because the curriculum only had certain books we were allowed to study...none of this pick a book that you would want to read & analyze! </STRONG>

Same with my school. The Board of Studies would give us like 5 books to choose from, but then the teacher would come in and say. "These are your choices of book to study, and this is the book you will study." I always wished they'd let us vote for which book we wanted.

Eowyn of Ithilien · 01-28-2002, 05:52 AM

well...personally I enjoy analysing (otherwise known as ripping texts into minute pieces [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]) but I think LOTR is too close to me-I don't want to try and describe how everything in it makes me feel and hand it over to be "judged"!

Fenrir · 01-28-2002, 11:19 AM

Some books are interesting to analyse and discuss in class. Some are more enjoyable when they are thought over in private. I wish that opinions and justifying them would play a bigger part in the curriculum though. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

Lotrelf · 05-01-2014, 08:11 PM

Children can appreciate the Lord of the Rings. Intelligent minds can. I think it is important to read books like LotR, it boosts your thinking ability.

I read the books last year, at the age of 19, and read them to my twelve years old brother. He loved, and understood them. He's planning to make me read again for him.
I think it's movies, that show lots of "negative" stuff, while books have their own charm and morals.

tom the eldest · 05-01-2014, 09:38 PM

Well,i have reading lotr since i was 5.now i was 14 and i have read the hobbit.im currently targeting the silmarillion

Pervinca Took · 05-02-2014, 05:29 AM

Tom, I first read LOTR at 12 and then again at 14 (The Hobbit at 11). No experience then of any kind of dramatisation or reading, except about one episode of the Jackanory "Hobbit" reading (partly acted). I'd be intrigued to know what things/scenes moved you most in the book (and if that has changed over the years of reading it), and whether you saw the films first.

tom the eldest · 05-02-2014, 06:06 AM

Whe ifist read it i completely dont understand the book at all,and i was mostly influnced by the movie.

01-26-2002, 03:22 PM	#41
Maltagaerion Haunting Spirit Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Mirkwood Posts: 60	I was fairly young when my mom handed me my first copy of The Hobbit. 9 I think...it was a long time ago. At any rate I was already an avid reader. My mom recently told me that the librarian at the library we always went to couldn't beleive I was actually reading all those books I was checking out. __________________ Friends don't let friends drink Starbucks

01-27-2002, 11:42 AM	#43
Eldar14 Wight Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: the Cottage of Lost Play Posts: 182	I feel for you on that issue. I've never read a book in any class at the pace I like to. I actually usually ending up reading it twice in the time it takes the class to read it once. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ "Come away! Let the cowards keep this city!" -- Fëanor to the Noldor

01-27-2002, 03:33 PM	#44
Aralaithiel Ghost Eldaran Queen Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: A remote mountain in Valinor Posts: 353	What I despised about my English classes was that the teacher had a certain set of answers to the comprehension and analysis questions that everyone had to come up with. They never allowed for divergent analyses of the books we were "forced" to read. I say forced, because the curriculum only had certain books we were allowed to study...none of this pick a book that you would want to read & analyze! And this was an American school...in Oklahoma! ACK! [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] Oh, I read The Hobbit when I was 7, and LOTR when I was eight or nine. __________________ A lelyat, wen! (Quenya Elvish for "You go, girl!"

01-28-2002, 05:52 AM	#46
Eowyn of Ithilien Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Australia Posts: 277	well...personally I enjoy analysing (otherwise known as ripping texts into minute pieces [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]) but I think LOTR is too close to me-I don't want to try and describe how everything in it makes me feel and hand it over to be "judged"! __________________ But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while still they endure for eyes to see, are their own record, and only when they are in peril or broken for ever do they pass into song.

01-28-2002, 11:19 AM	#47
Fenrir Wight Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Nevrast Posts: 103	Some books are interesting to analyse and discuss in class. Some are more enjoyable when they are thought over in private. I wish that opinions and justifying them would play a bigger part in the curriculum though. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] __________________ Fearlessness is better than a faint-heart for any man who puts his nose out of doors. The length of my life and the day of my death were fated long ago.

05-01-2014, 08:11 PM	#48
Lotrelf Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2014 Posts: 265	Children can appreciate the Lord of the Rings. Intelligent minds can. I think it is important to read books like LotR, it boosts your thinking ability. I read the books last year, at the age of 19, and read them to my twelve years old brother. He loved, and understood them. He's planning to make me read again for him. I think it's movies, that show lots of "negative" stuff, while books have their own charm and morals. __________________ A short saying oft contains much wisdom. ~Sophocles

05-01-2014, 09:38 PM	#49
tom the eldest Wight Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: far away,in the southern arda Posts: 153	Well,i have reading lotr since i was 5.now i was 14 and i have read the hobbit.im currently targeting the silmarillion __________________ Fly,you fools!-gandalf,the bridge of khazad dûm

05-02-2014, 05:29 AM	#50
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	Tom, I first read LOTR at 12 and then again at 14 (The Hobbit at 11). No experience then of any kind of dramatisation or reading, except about one episode of the Jackanory "Hobbit" reading (partly acted). I'd be intrigued to know what things/scenes moved you most in the book (and if that has changed over the years of reading it), and whether you saw the films first. __________________ "Sit by the firelight's glow; tell us an old tale we know. Tell of adventures strange and rare; never to change, ever to share! Stories we tell will cast their spell, now and for always."

05-02-2014, 06:06 AM	#51
tom the eldest Wight Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: far away,in the southern arda Posts: 153	Whe ifist read it i completely dont understand the book at all,and i was mostly influnced by the movie. __________________ Fly,you fools!-gandalf,the bridge of khazad dûm