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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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	lady_ganesh 2013-01-04 11:56 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, I remembered the dragon, the little detail that got the dragon killed (though I didn't remember how!), and that Gandalf was impossibly cool. Rereading I was amused at what an anticlimax the Battle was. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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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