I’ve been reading LotR for like a month now. WHEN WILL IT END? Ugh. I love the movies. Return of the King is probably one of my favorite movies ever. But the books, oh they drag, they draaaaag. I tried reading them right after watching the movies. I just made it to Rivendell before I forgot to pick it back up again. That was, like, three years ago, right?
This time I’ve made it all the way to Denethor’s pyle. Go me! But I’ve been suspiciously not reading for at least a week now. I finally caved and bought some fun urban fantasy, which I’ve devoured. Oh, I needed it. (Note: Stacia Kane’s Downside books are brilliant but not for the easily offended or most Christians, which is sadly often the same thing.) My creative well is sparking. I’ve got ideas that are fuzzy and just out of reach, and, well, I wants them, my precious…. Okay, maybe I’m enjoying LotR more than I let on. 
On the writing front, I rewrote CT in under a week, putting it into first person from third. Am going to probably have to do another pass of it, expanding characterization/arc, cleaning up some plot things and nasty exposition that resulted from the speed of that rewrite (sigh). I’m excited for it, but the character stuff is driving me crazy. It’s so my weakness. But I SO LOVE CT, and Ronnie and Adrian and Torin. I don’t love Duncan, but he fascinates me. Also, I swear my next novel will not have any boys whose name ends in -n. (*thinks for a minute* - wait, I failed already. Jin.) I am willing to keep rewriting CT until it sparkles brighter than a vampire in sunlight.
Which I suspect means I’ve finally, truly, conquered my revisiphobia. RAH!*
But before I do that next pass, I’m waiting for some query reply stuff. And to let my brain cool from the last pass. And to, you know, figure out an attack plan.
So I’m hoping those fuzzy ideas unfuzz. Just refilling the creative well (aka reading) and toying with thoughts. Doing beta-reading, too, which helps me see the problems in my own work sometimes. And I guess I have to finish reading LotR.
*Trademark Jackie Kessler.
I really enjoyed reading LotR… before the movies came out. Now, I’ll read sections of the books, but I haven’t read the whole thing straight through in ages. It’s so much simpler to po in the DVD. Some very nice eye candy, too.
I love the LotR series! I used to try and read every year…never get tired of it.
It can drag a little… That’s why you should get it on tape/CD from the library and listen to Robert Inglis read it to you.
For the books, I love Fellowship, like Towers, and RotK is very meh. For the movies, I like Fellowship, love Towers (not extended), and hate RotK.
The Hobbit, however, rules. When I was about 13, I had it almost memorized from cover to cover.