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The Bespectacled Guy wrote: Shadow at Morning wrote: Meh. Both novels are far better than their film adaptations. Certainly in the case of the latter. The former were okay, but still inferior to the novel. The first Hobbit film was OK. The second was pretty good. The third was ass.

As for The Lord of the Rings, I've only seen Fellowship, but I quite enjoyed it. I began to read the book when I was about 12, but I didn't get to more than a third of the way through. I was put off by that irritating twat Tom Bombadil. Pretty sure he was meant to be god or something.