The Hobbit

I really really have to admit; when it comes to Tolkien, I become petrified of reading. Really. A reluctant reader of novels to begin with, when I first saw the lengths of those books, I felt like running far away from them. (First seeing them I was pretty young, mind you). Though this was my first reaction, I tried reading through the Hobbit anyways. I had heard good and bad things about it, so why not try to find the goodness? Turns out I couldn't make the effort to get past some amount of chapters in the novel. It's hard to capture my interest in a book, and the excrutiating attention to detail Tolkien has, turned me off. Although this is the tragic case, I am still completely impressed by the author. The man invented a language for christ's sake! Though I could not read an entire novel made up of little tiny details of each and every thing, I still was pretty interested in what he had to say about simple little things you really wouldn't think about when you see something. And, even though I know it doesn't really count, I absolutely loved the Lord of the Rings film series...even though they skip over the Hobbit...(it's okay, my younger brother told me the things missing from the Hobbit that I hadn't read about...he's the reader in the family).