I brought my mother for her birthday.

Awwwww

Thats sweet

Books are always better than the movies because you can cram as much as you like in a book, but you have to cut a movie down to almost nothing.

LOTR was a decent effort

Unless it's a sequel, you have to set up your premise, hook people's interest, tell your story, and give a satisfactory conclusion in two hours or less.

In a book, you can take a hundred pages to describe cheese.

I enjoyed the LOTR movies, but they still had to axe and change things to fit.

LOTR was written by a Christian, so every neckbearded fedora-wearer is required by law to hate it.

LOL The Hobbit was one of the first books I ever read as a kid.

The Hobbit one was poor though

Good but nothing on LOTR

Sorry, though you meant the book.

Nah the book itself stands great on its own

I don't think anyone will ever top Tolkien.

What made it so successful

was that he created entire cultures

and even languages, that is a mark of a great writer

Yep. He practically lived in Middle-earth.

Yea it is not fictional

Tolkien was really a documentary writer haha

LOL That too. But I meant in his mind. I'm fairly certain that you could have walked up to him with a question about Gandalf and he'd just have the answer.

Oooh! Books are here too?!? Add beer and this would be jerps new home 😂

Books need a separate channel

I suggested it, and they folded them together. Better all than none.

Its entertainment based. I agree with the addition

Educational books?

I can share some good law school books!

Boo!

Archibold series @Froski

I scored the complete hardcover Popular Mechanics DIY encyclopedia Saturday.

A British law publisher if you know them

I'm American. So no.

That is how Lincoln began his jounrey

started off by buying some law books from a sale in a attic

My prize possession, reference-wise, is a WWII manual on battlefield facial reconstructive surgery.

You guys got an interesting library

Any of you fans of the Heritage Press?

Beautifully made books

I moved a lot as a kid. My books were usually the first casualty each time.

Okay, funny timing...