The Lord of the Rings (Collective review) P1

      The Lord of the Rings (Collective review) P1

                    By J.R.R Tolkien

(Please note that this review is not intended to hurt or offend anyone. All that is written here is my opinion.) 

99% of authors nowadays just write for money and entertainment not because they have a gift or talent for writing, or because they want to put their views and thoughts on paper. 

99% of books nowadays are just written for entertainment or money, not to provoke thought etc.

Tolkien didn't write "The Lord of the Rings" to get money. He did not expect money to come rolling in. He just wanted to write LOTR for his friends and family, and to put his imagination on paper. 

People often complain: 

1) That LOTR is too long. Tolkien said once that with a novel that is as long as LOTR people will find something that they don't like. He wasn't really bothered.

2) That it has got too much description. But that's exactly what made it on of the most influential books of the twentieth century. If it just had action all the time it would be just one of the average fantasy books you get nowadays, and not very educational. LOTR is also seen as one of the most educational books of the twentieth century.

3) Some people even said that Fodo and Sam are gay. Now that is absuloutely ridiculous! Let me just mention that in those days being gay was being happy and not homosexual!

Obviously I have watched the movie like everyone else, and I think some things are better than in the book and some things are not as good as the book.

Improvements on book:
 1) The chapter "The Scouring of the Shire" is pretty anti-climatic so I like the movie in this respect more. 

Improvements on movie:
 1) I don't really like the part where instead of Glorfindel Arwen comes.