I read the LOTR when I was about 12/13ish and loved every minute of it

Then I tried to read the Simarilon.....only book I've never finished

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I too read LotR at a relatively early age and loved it, moved onto the Silmarillion at 14 and didn't really understand it. A couple years later I re-read it however and was astounded, it was by far Tolkiens best story telling for me. His ability to do tragic heroes, spurned love, epic battles and all the other great story lines has to be some of the best I have ever read. I guess spending the best part of, what, 40-50 years writing it and not even finishing it, did give him the advantage of time, but I really think that while a lot of people are hung up on lord of the rings, it is definitely not his best work.

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Farmer Giles of Ham!

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Well listen you orrible lot, if you can't bring yourselves to read a good pook then listen to the first chapter on the podcast which you can get here...

http://thepenguinpodcast.blogs.com/

There is a an erotica section for the likes of Futt and the others who seem obsessed with sodomy

I love a good pook! It's just a lot of work to get one when you're single.
Sodomy is optional.

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http://www.futt.org/

They've actually got a myspace page for the book now! looks like you can use it for anything nowadays!

http://www.myspace.com/glassbooks

Do you guys think that my space works?

If by "works" you mean "is a festering cesspool of the very worst the internet has to offer" then yes.

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http://www.futt.org/

Places on the internet to avoid like the plague:

1. myspace
2. myspace
3. myspace
4. facebook
5. myspace

Does that answer the question?

You missed myspace

And Blogs

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And Ozle and Friends

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And blogs? That probably rules out around 60% of the internet as it currently stands then!

They're not all about emo kids and general teenage angst/wankage you know. Though if you took myspace or blogger as examples I could see why people may think that....

You say this like its a bad thing?