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	tofuknight 2013-01-04 01:22 am UTC (link)
	How do you read the Hobbit and forget the ending? I mean, not just details (going with the above thread, like the colors of the eyes on the tea-cup wargs) but the general parts of it (people drink tea in this world)! In other words, how have you read it, seen the LOTR movies, and still think it will be a sparkly, fluffy, glitter bunny ending to the Hobbit? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	sgaana 2013-01-04 01:38 am UTC (link)
	I have a good friend who read The Hobbit (as a child, granted), and forgot the DRAGON. I swear to god, she wasn't putting us on, either. She seems to have barely remembered there were dwarves (in barrels; they were annoying). (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

spawn_of_kong
2013-01-04 01:43 am UTC (link)

TBF, after my dad read The Hobbit to me and my older sister, I forgot a lot of it for a while -- though the stuff I did remember included Smaug, the Dwarves, Gollum, the Goblins, the Trolls, the Giant Spiders, and Beorn.

Somehow, however, I completely forgot about all the other stuff, including the Ring*, the Elves, and the Battle of Five Armies.

*Though granted, the Ring isn't particularly important in The Hobbit.

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	tofuknight 2013-01-04 02:07 am UTC (link)
	Perhaps I just read it more times, and so remember better. I also now recall that I tended to read it and then all the way through the LotR frequently, so the connections were inescapable to me. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	cmdr_zoom 2013-01-04 02:33 am UTC (link)
	"Oh, Bilbo Baggins. If you really understood that ring - as someday, members of your family not yet born will - then you'd realize that this story has not ended, but is only beginning!" yeah, I can still hear John Huston saying it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	singe 2013-01-04 05:20 am UTC (link)
	"Thanks for the warnin,' Gandalf." (Reply to this)(Parent)

rosehiptea
2013-01-04 03:16 am UTC (link)

I've forgotten a lot of The Hobbit. Don't kill me but right now I'm still trying to remember the Battle of Five Armies to be quite honest.

To be fair to myself, I haven't read it since I was a kid or at least fairly young.

(I also read LOTR in high school and barely remember that at all. Not because it was bad or anything, just because there was so much stuff in it.)

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	redcoast 2013-01-04 05:03 pm UTC (link)
	For some reason, the Battle of Five Armies disturbed me so much that I deliberately repressed any memory of it. I can't remember why, so it was a successful repression. (It seemed really different in tone from the rest of the book is all I rememeber.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

sgaana
2013-01-04 05:34 pm UTC (link)

Honestly? Especially for folks who read it as a kid, I can much more easily see forgetting the Battle of the Five Armies. It's complicated, messy, and involves kind of adult issues, and Tolkien doesn't actually write it in loving detailed description (in fact Bilbo is knocked on the head and spends most of it unconscious and invisible, and is only told what happened later, which IMO makes it more likely to be unmemorable).

I just would think that if a kid is going to remember anything from The Hobbit, it'd be the Riddles in the Dark, and the big honkin' dragon. But I could be wrong!

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puipui
2013-01-05 05:41 am UTC (link)

Don't kill me but right now I'm still trying to remember the Battle of Five Armies to be quite honest.

I didn't remember it until you mentioned it. But, then, I haven't read The Hobbit all the way through in almost 30 years; I tried to read it to my daughter when she was younger, but it turned out to be the only book I ever read to her that she actually asked that we stop reading, just because she found it so boring.

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	seraangelus 2013-01-04 03:48 am UTC (link)
	The thing I remember best from the Hobbit were the eagles. Which is why I was sad that they don't talk in the movie, but then Shelob didn't either, so I'm pretty okay with that, if sad. I'm really looking forward to Beorn and Mirkwood though. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	sgaana 2013-01-04 05:30 pm UTC (link)
	See, I can totally see forgetting about the Ring. I could see forgetting Beorn, the Battle of the Five Armies, etc. It just felt to me like the dragon was kind of the big showpiece of the book, not to mention, featured in a lot of art. (I could swear that Tolkien's painting of Smaug was on my edition's cover back-when.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ghostmaster 2013-01-04 05:39 pm UTC (link)
	I completely forgot the dragon, and I both read it in high school and saw the cartoon. I was just so bored by it all that it didn't stick with me. (Reply to this)(Parent)

eleutheria
2013-01-04 02:36 am UTC (link)

I read both the Hobbit and LOTR when I was about 12-13 and I didn't remember anything. For the Hobbit: Bilbo, the ring, a dragon. I didn't even remember dwarves being involved. For LOTR: an elf named Legolas (who had black hair and was very hot on a calendar drawing I had in like 1984), the ring, bad guy named Sauron, some hobbits take it to a mountain and drop it in, a wizard named Gandalf... that's about it.

Honestly, of all the many things I read when I was a kid, I can remember exactly two books at all well.

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	bobgenghiskhan 2013-01-05 06:43 am UTC (link)
	This one?? http://img-fan.theonering.net/~rolozo/images/edelfeldt/legolas.jpg (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lady_ganesh 2013-01-05 10:07 pm UTC (link)
	Oooh, he is lovely in that image. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ashes 2013-01-04 03:22 am UTC (link)
	Frankly, I read it once (a decade ago) and don't really remember much other than the broad strokes (Bilbo, Shire, wizard, dwarves, dragon?). But that's because I have shit memory for reading, unless I've read it more than once. >_>; (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ashes 2013-01-04 03:27 am UTC (link)
	That said, I don't agree with the OP. Just that I understand not remembering the details of the book. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	grapefruitzzz 2013-01-04 04:17 am UTC (link)
	I have done exactly that and totally forgotten who dies :D I'm guessing it's either the head dwarf or Legolas' papa. Or both of them. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sepiamagpie 2013-01-04 03:11 pm UTC (link)
	It's Legolas. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	puipui 2013-01-05 05:44 am UTC (link)
	LEGOLAS DIES PAGE 606 TOTALLY TRUE! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	lady_ganesh 2013-01-04 04:55 pm UTC (link)
	I read it pretty recently and forgot (the dwarves kind of blend into one argumentative mass at times, and the elves into a haughty mass) until it came up in ffrants. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	catmoran 2013-01-04 09:36 pm UTC (link)
	I've managed to forget how it ends, but then I'm remarkably forgetful. On the plus side, I can use my power for ~~good~~ the purpose of rereading ALL THE THINGS. Even mysteries! I'd laugh myself sick before I asked for spoiler warnings on a 75 year old book, though. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	uldihaa 2013-01-05 01:17 am UTC (link)
	fluffy, glitter bunny ending I am now imagining Smaug as a giant, gem-encrusted flying bunny rabbit. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cmdr_zoom 2013-01-06 11:07 am UTC (link)
	"Dazzling! Marvelous! Stupendous! Perfect! Flawless! ... old fool. There's a patch in the hollow of your left breast as bare as a peep out of its shell." (Reply to this)(Parent)

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