But somehow the notes are there but not the music. I feel like I should like it because it's close to the books which I love. Not to start a fight about the BBC miniseries of The Chronicles of Narnia (I know some fans are sensitive about it) but I really agree with Glumpuddle. He seems like a guy who was mostly writing to please himself, not other people. I don't think Tolkien would have been surprised by my opinion actually. It's not like I've decided it's a bad book.
That isn't the case with most of the books I loved as a kid. I did enjoy The Hobbit when I was young, but strangely I haven't felt like rereading it now that I'm an adult. All those things tend to be OK at best in The Lord of the Rings. (Well, OK, there are a few other things but those are the ones that mostly come into the story.) I feel that a really long book needs characters with interesting personalities, a really good prose style, or an interesting world. I feel like the world of Middle Earth isn't as fun as Narnia because the only fantastical races in it are hobbits, elves and dwarves. But the description didn't really stand out to me as great. (Can anyone tell which is Merry and which is Pippin?) The only character who I thought were memorable were Gollum (I was actually kind of sad when he died), Sam (though I think I mainly like him because he reminds me of Joe Gargery,a character from one of my favorite books, Great Expectations) and maybe Gandalf.
I felt like the characters' dialogue sounded the same. While I didn't listen to the whole thing, I did listen to more than just the first book and I found it rather meh. When we were kids, my mother wouldn't let my brother watch the LOTR movies before he was familiar with the books so he listened to them on audio. It's a popular with Narnia fans and a lot of my cousins really like it…but I don't. I know I'm supposed to like The Lord of the Rings. I doubt I'd want to do so even if I could. (Since Glumpuddle joked that the comments section should try to convince Rilian that the Narnia books are the best, I'd like to say that this comment isn't to change the mind of any Tolkien fans.
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