The top 50 children's books

R. Steve Walz · Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 1906

aglet wrote:
>
> I'm going to ask a stupid question (won't be the first or last time). Is
> The Hobbit really considered a children's book? I mean, was it written with
> children as the intended primary audience? And, if so, can I assume the
> Lord of the Rings trilogy was also?
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The whole thing was written by an immature sexless ninny for other
immature sexless ninnies.
Steve

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Jeff · Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 582

R. Steve Walz wrote:
> aglet wrote:
>> I'm going to ask a stupid question (won't be the first or last time). Is
>> The Hobbit really considered a children's book? I mean, was it written with
>> children as the intended primary audience? And, if so, can I assume the
>> Lord of the Rings trilogy was also?
> -----------------------------
> The whole thing was written by an immature sexless ninny for other
> immature sexless ninnies.
> Steve

I am glad that you are able to show your maturity by not name calling or
anything.

NL das sind Initialen, ke · Joined: 27 Feb 2008 Posts: 2

postet only to m.k.
R. Steve Walz schrieb:
> aglet wrote:
>> I'm going to ask a stupid question (won't be the first or last time). Is
>> The Hobbit really considered a children's book? I mean, was it written with
>> children as the intended primary audience? And, if so, can I assume the
>> Lord of the Rings trilogy was also?
> -----------------------------
> The whole thing was written by an immature sexless ninny for other
> immature sexless ninnies.
> Steve

Ok, a while ago we learned that ninny stands for breast. I personally
have not yet managed to write with my breast, how's that done?

SCNR
nicole

Michelle J. Haines · Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 266

Jeff wrote:
> Michelle J. Haines wrote:
>>
> I loved LotR, the Hobbit and the Children's stories. I started to read
> the Silm, but I got bored. The first time I read Watership Down, I got
> bored too (i was in 8th grade). Now it is one of my top 100 books.
>
> Maybe, the next time I reread tolkien, I will give it another go.

It usually goes a little easier if you read it in conjunction with The
Unfinished Tales (in which some of the individual stories are a bit more
fleshed out), but reading it that way does take a bit of familiarity
with how the stories fit together. You may also try the recently
released The Children of Hurin, which is a more narrowly focused tale of
the First Age, of course, and more "storied" in tone than the
Silmarillion, which really reads a lot like a history book for a lot of
people.

Michele
Flutist

R. Steve Walz · Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 1906

Brandon D Cartwright wrote:
>
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:05:49 -0800, "R. Steve Walz"
> wrote:
>
> >aglet wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm going to ask a stupid question (won't be the first or last time). Is
> >> The Hobbit really considered a children's book? I mean, was it written with
> >> children as the intended primary audience? And, if so, can I assume the
> >> Lord of the Rings trilogy was also?
> >-----------------------------
> >The whole thing was written by an immature sexless ninny for other
> >immature sexless ninnies.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien#Children.27s_books
> `
> On the evening of his twenty-first birthday, Tolkien wrote to Edith a
> declaration of his love and asked her to marry him.
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Irrelevant. A writer who leaves out the major feature of human existence
in his writing is a sexless ninny.
Steve