OK, it took me well over 3 months to read the whole thing. I'm a slow reader so this was good time for me and having 7siblings, HSing, House-keeping and watching the 12hrs of LOTR I found myself reading just one page at 1am just to read a little. What's your excuse?

How did you like it? I thought it was very good and it should have been published first... I also thought it was a lot like Genesis, which shows that you can't write a book without having some kind of influence from your real-life world. I know, I know, Tolkien didn't like allegories, but c'mon...

here are some of my allegories... that I have found go with my real life beliefs...

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Lol....it took me four hours to read it, the first time, but I haven't sat down and read it all at once since then...I read a bit, then do something else, then read a bit more, etc.

As for the Allegories, I think you've nailed that.

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Hannon le! Have any yourself?

Nothing, really, except to point out that I don't think you mean Arda as a heavenly place...I think you mean more like Valinor.

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four hours to read the whole thing! wow. with school, house work, boring parts etc etc etc it took me about three-four weeks.

I like your allegories!

I have to agree, four hours is pretty impressive! Reading it around school and everything it took me a few months the first time I read it, in grade six.

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Heh. I actually changed my sig. Wow.

"I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is just a bit of mildew that grew over a tiny planet. And we think we can have something great - thoughts, deeds! They're all grains of sand." - Levin

The first time I read the Sil it took me two days. I was reading in all my freetime, because I found the book very interesting and exciting - I couldn't put it down. Since then I read it over and over again..
I really like your allegories by the way, HirilAlatariel except that I agree more with what Aerandir said concerning heaven. But I must say that the Sil kinda reminds me of the Bible sometimes.

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Oh. My. God. four hours? who was that?

it took me... a few weeks.

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oh, my good god....you didn't read the book in 4 hours!!! it's impossible.

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*keels over* i thought i read fast.....

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That was me. And it is possible to read it that quickly--there are some people I know who could probably read it faster (one of them blazed through Lord of the Rings in twelve hours).

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it took me two or three days to read it. it was a christmas present and i had nothing to do so i read hours and hours because i loved it so much. it is a bit difficult to read otherwise i would've been faster and i also read it in german but 4 hours is a quite nice speed...

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What?? Read LotR in 12 hours.. gosh that's quick I'd never be able to do it.

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I know I could read it in 16 hours--that's at a rate of a page a minute, which I am more than capable of doing. But I don't feel like spending sixteen hours to read it in a short a time as possible.

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this book is for enjoying. i think it would be inappropriate to try to read it as fast as possible in order to show off...

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yeah, I agree. I usually take a lot of time to read LotR, because I enjoy reading every single word and I love to dream about LotR while reading it.

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