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String comment = 'Do I gotta read The Hobbit before Lord of the Rings?
I mean I get the gist of The Hobbit and think I may have read it when I was a kid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC3
'>>23324578
You absolutely don't. All the key poot points in The Hobbit that are relevant to LoTR are recaped and explained.';
'>>23324774
Plot*';
'>>23324774
Cheers big ears';
'>>23324578
The hobbit is the better book';
'>>23324774
>All the key poot points';
'I enjoy the hobbit more than lotr
lotr was written first, iirc';
'>>23324578
You don't have to but you should.
Aside from Hobbit being gigacomfy you can also observe how LotR shifts from. Hobbit-mode adventuring to a more epic scale over the course of the first book.';
'>>23325221
No it wasnt
>>23324578
You should. The prologue of LOTR is the most boring thing Tolkien has ever written. Also it would spoil you The Hobbit.';
'>>23325179
It's a better book as an whole, entire work, but The Return of the King is the best volume out of the entire The Hobbit + 3 LOTR books. I liked it enough to get a tattoo of Smaug.';
'>>23324578
You can read them both effectively independently. They're two different stories in the same setting.';
'Is LOTR one book, three, or six??';
'>>23324578
The proper way is to read the Hobbit first, and then stop.';
'>>23325174
Bog off you wanker!';
'You don’t have to but unlike the movies I found the Hobbit superior to LOTR. The Hobbit movies are absolute garbage';
'Not really, but it's a funny little book that introduces you to the universe, specialyl the shire';
'>>23325911
The structure of the Hero's Journey is a lot clearer, and the fantasy archetypes inspired by 19th century Germanic folklore are a lot more evident, yeah. It definitely feels different and like it could actually stand on its own relative to LOTR.';
'>>23324578
Not necessary but I highly recommend you read it, anyways. Peak comfy imo and it won't be time wasted.';
'>>23325900
Three books split into two parts each. To Tolkien, though, it was just one big book but was forced to publish it as a trilogy';
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