re: #389 LudwigVanQuixote

I didn’t say Fellowship was a bad book! Far from it! I said that it is the weakest of the three. Much like LOTR, SoIaF needs to come to a boil.

Some of the absolute best shit is in Fellowship, the Barrow Wights, Old man Willow, Watcher in the Water, and the Nazgul are absolutely creepy as hell. It’s the foundation for everything else to follow. Bombadil is a little bit goofy and doesn’t quite fit in thematically, but so what. For me the Two Towers is the most tedious, in as much as it resolves nothing and ends in a cliffhanger.