The really great thing about having children is the unashamed
return to those old pleasures - something got me at about 20, and I
put away childish things (and, I suppose, starting seeing through a
glass darkly) - and then Josh, my oldest son, read the LOTR, prompting
me to revisit it. I'm just finishing reading it out loud to Zoe,
who's two years younger - I guess it's taken us the better part of six
months. Some marathon!
Best
Alison
it was a treasured
book to me too - and I read it aloud to both of my children in turn
with undiminished pleasure. (Tomas used to hide it under his
pillow, because if he didnt, when we stopped at night, I would take it
and read ahead, which he considered unfair!)
The film is really lovely - thoughtful, subtle, very well edited and
beautiful to look at. Plus scary. Without being gory or
very explicit, which is a lesson to filmmakers all I think. The
menace of the Dark Riders was really well captured and all this in the
opinion of all three of us. We are all reading the book again -
three copies in the house now (I managed to hold on to the battered
old copy I first read.
I'm baffled too about why they didnt use Tolkien's own songs - too
many words?
Liz