Quote Originally Posted by Pike View Post
I've read The Hobbit maybe... once? I did enjoy it though and just haven't gotten around to a re-read.

I never did read LotR and honestly I'm not really interested in doing so. If I ever do it I think it will probably be because I "should" do so as a speculative fiction writer. You know, a history lesson of sorts.
I mentioned it above, but I just finished a full read-through as an adult and found a lot of satisfaction in it. I had tried reading it as a teen and just didn't have the patience for it. Tolkien's prose is magnificent, so I agree it's probably valuable for that alone (not to say that you MUST read it as a writer, it's up to you). I liked it a lot more by slowly digesting it rather than just trying to blow through it, but ymmv.