BEDA Blog #14 - Lord of the Rings

Mehhhh migraines suck. Anyway, I'm gonna talk about a recent obsession of mine. That is Lord of the Rings. I've been a Harry Potter fan since 2001. Since then I've loved almost every fantasy book I've ever picked up. But there was a glaring hole in my fantasy book repertoire. Lord of the Rings. I had never seen the movies (which came out the same time I became obsessed with HP) or picked up the books. I think the reason I had never been exposed to LotR was because my parents thought I would be too afraid of the movies and I knew the books were kind of hard to read. This past Christmas I asked for the box set and got it. Now I was a little weary to start the books and once I did start FotR I knew why, they're difficult to read. A friend told me to watch the movie first so I could understand the books better and once I did that I became engrossed. Tolkien created an entire new world. Often fantasy stories and integrated with the real world but there is nothing mundane about Middle Earth. I love this series so much and I'm only half way through TT. I love the characters who are so real and the different races that are in these books. And as I read and watched the movies I was so sad that I wasn't apart of the movie franchise more. I've been with HP since the beginning and I didn't have the opportunity with LotR to go to midnight showings with other huge fans. But, when I found out they were making The Hobbit was so excited. I get to be apart of that! I get to go to the theater and watch that movie on the big screen with other huge fans of the series and I'm just so happy. I watched the new video that came out today about Peter Jackson on the set and I'm so happy I get to be there from the beginning.