hmmm......guess ya had to see the movies eh?

No, actually, a lot of them made sense only if one read the books...for instance, Tom Bombadil wasn't in the movies at all.

And of course, some of them had nothing to do directly with The Lord of the Rings. It would take reading The Silmarillion & The Hobbit to understand those.

BIBI,

If you can make the time, I think you'll enjoy reading the books.