After seeing the movie series, my dad suggested trying to read the old-fashioned way (using your imagination, I hate going slow. Don't you like it better when they cram all the experience into a six-hour sequence?) to have the experience that Tolkein portrays in the books. I quite after getting through the first two chapters of the fellowship. Anyways, I liked the movies more because of the way that the characters were portrayed. Alot more humor and entertainment to keep us quoting phrases around a restaraunt table while laughing like idiots and scaring the other customers witless. You don't think so? Let me introduce you to one of my favorite (and neccessarily evil) characters.
Sauron has a mouth. No, not just any mouth. How do you think a flaming eyeball communicates? Just by mind-breaking foolish hobbits and white old men who hasn't seen a haircut (much less a manicure) in fourty years? Not a chance. His Mouth (yes, uppercase, its a proper name) gives orders to the armies and communicates with his Evil Dark Overlord about making plans (and tea parties. What? you think that they need to keep up the whole 'evil' cause the whole time?). The scary, evil, and yet somehow hilarious feature about him is his mouth. Most likely the reason why Sauron picked him to be his second-best servant (his first best is the witch king, but he was demoted when he got creamed by a girl) was because he was all bite.
And why is he my favorite character? I have been blessed and cursed with my grandmother's smile on my dad's side. Okay, some people would say its not THAT bad. When I was a toddler or even a baby people where shocked at my brilliantly wide smile. But if someone asks me to smile as wide as I can you would find that my long lost twin has been posing as a second-best evil mouth. I can't wait until the day that everyone who remembers the movie forgets altogether. It will be so much easier on my part around the dinner table when my mom laughs for no reason at me grinning. Blondes have it soooo easy.
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