The Lord of the Rings!

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I have always loved that series of novels. I am beginning to wonder, though, if it was a reflection of JRR Tolkien's medievalist worldview? Still, he did create much of the whole trend towards Fantasy Fiction that has gone, unabated, to this very day.

I love Lord of The Rings, I did read all the books and have seen all the movies. I think a lot of it does kind of reflect J.R.R Tolkien s views on things. However I think a lot of it can be somewhat applicable to life, it is a very good series for sure. I mean there are things about it that lack the entire picture of how real life would work, but a lot of value in it to it does address things like friendship, not abandoning friends, conflicts between people and various things that do relate to real life, part of why I like it.

I have, since I was very young, desired to write an entire series of either Fantasy or Science Fiction. That would really be very neat to be able to do.

Actually, Tolkien based a lot of his writings on Middle Earth on known mythology, including Norse, Celtic, Slavic, Persian and Greek mythology.

You might also like The "Sword of Shannara" series ... as it is very similar to the ring series.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sword_of_Shannara

Supposedly the second book in the series, "The elfstones of Shannara" is going to be made for TV" following the successful "Game of Thrones".

That to, my brother got a copy of one of his books that is written in Norwegian...I cannot remember which one it is, but it was an old copy we found.

I remember back when those books were considered to be a total nerd-stereotype. And then the movies started coming out in the early 2000s, and everybody pretended like the stereotype never happened more or less.

I read the books when I was around 10 I think, and also read them again when they released the new movies since movie changes some details and leaves some out and didn't want to be missing any important plot points. I also had seen the older animated versions of The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings series with my siblings before the live action movies came out. Guess me and my siblings liked it before it was cool... god I should have never heard that meme. lol

But yeah most of the time I doubt people at school even saw me as cool enough to be considered a nerd I was even too lame for that it seems.

Moved from Politics, Philosophy, and Religion.

I remember reading that trilogy, it was certainly pretty good...if one likes Lord of The Rings they would certainly be likely to enjoy that. Might have to pick it up again though as my memory on what all went on is a little fuzzy as I read it a long time ago.

I've never read the books, but I've seen the Appendices documentaries related to the films...and it amazed me how much detail Tolkien put into his work. I'd go nuts even trying to map that all out, let alone create it all from scratch. I love the movies, and am eager to see how "The Hobbit" finally ends next month.

Well you could always go get the animated version and find out early

Nah, I'm good. There's not even three weeks left until "Battle of the Five Armies" opens, and I don't like being spoiled very much.

hell yeah, than wait for it, it should be enjoyable.

Tolkien himself didn't always like the translations. He was a linguistic expert and the names of places and such were taken from his constructed languages (usually based on ancient Dermanic languages or Old English.

I would guess yes, but what exactly do you mean by Tolkein's medievalist worldview?
I think, if I were to make a bit of a generalization, self-styled traditionalists might be more drawn towards fantasy writing, whereas self-styled progressives might be drawn more towards science fiction writing.