Novels are great, any long work of fiction is a good way to spend in evening. Do you enjoy novels?
Yes I do! I was just planning to start the series Lord of the Rings! Have you read it before?
Oh I love those, the fantasy novels written by J. R. R. Tolkien. Have you read the other part of the series, "The Hobbit"?
I started The Hobbit once, but I couldn't really get into it. Some of those fantasy books take some time to get "into the world", if you know what I mean?
Middle-earth
Middle-earth is the fictional setting of much of British writer J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium.
The term is equivalent to the term "Midgard" of Norse mythology, describing the human-inhabited world, that is, the central continent of the Earth in Tolkien's imagined mythological past.
Tolkien's most widely read works, "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings", take place entirely in Middle-earth, and "Middle-earth" has also become a
the latter book I was struck by the fact that Gandalf was not much of a person—just a good guy. So I gave Prospero, my wizard, most of my phobias and crotchets. It was simply meant as entertainment and any profundity will have to be read in." Writing in 1973, Lin Carter described "The Face in the Frost" as one of the three best fantasy novels to appear since "The Lord of the Rings". Carter stated that Bellairs was planning a sequel to "The Face