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Can tell in some parts that it was translated.
The opening needs a warning or something because I was not ready for the SA but I’ve been intrigued the whole time and haven’t really put it down!

I was worried I’d be bored by the telling of Frodo and Sam making when same rescues Frodo from Cirith Ungol and then go to Mt. Doom but honestly this telling in the book is far more in depth and interesting so far than what is shown in the movie.

Well it’s exciting now! Definitely some lag time for set up of exciting moments and battles but the Helm’s Deep chapter got me back into it!

WHY did they cut the tree lore so short in the movies??

Haldir to Merry as they discuss blindfolding everyone for them to be taken to Lothlorien
“This world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps greater.”

Is the patter of feet when they’re in the mountain pass and they stop that Frodo hears Gollum?

I’m in now
I still find myself skimming over the tales/songs because I just don’t care enough to look for the foreshadowing or relevant history in them. It’s made progress through a bit easier.
I have gotten used to the style of world building but I also skim those parts still as I find the way Tolkien does this to be too much.