I never got through Return of the King. Twice I slogged through Fellowship and Two Towers, I got a few pages into Return of the King and I was just done with it. I didn’t care enough about these characters or this world, I couldn’t tell what was relevant or what wasn’t, so to this day I haven’t read the last book, and the events of the first two have run together in my mind as a beige DnD scented sludge.
I sat through the first movie in the theater with some friends in like 9th grade and once again I remember it as a series of spectacular visuals and a bunch of characters I didn’t give a shit about. Without my permission this became one of only five things pop culture was allowed to care about for the rest of my life.
You made it sound way cool, too, great tl;dr! And I did read the books as a kid
I never got through Return of the King. Twice I slogged through Fellowship and Two Towers, I got a few pages into Return of the King and I was just done with it. I didn’t care enough about these characters or this world, I couldn’t tell what was relevant or what wasn’t, so to this day I haven’t read the last book, and the events of the first two have run together in my mind as a beige DnD scented sludge.
I sat through the first movie in the theater with some friends in like 9th grade and once again I remember it as a series of spectacular visuals and a bunch of characters I didn’t give a shit about. Without my permission this became one of only five things pop culture was allowed to care about for the rest of my life.