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Summary: The Review of the Ring
Review: I think this is a great book. It can be quite riveting at times. For people who have seen the movie before reading the book, it can be harder to figure the book out. The book has more characters and many more details about different events. The book can seem to drag at times, while the movie is action packed. Many events inn the book are written completely different then they are shown in the movie. Some parts of the book made me completely confused. Considering that this book is long, I would suggest that coach-potatoes stick to the movie. Real readers should defiantly read the book, and possibly watch the movie to get a better feel of it all.
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Summary: hi
Review: just noting: all of the one star reveiws say its too wordy or slow. is this commenting on their intelligence or the book?
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Summary: Okay, but the movie was MUCH BETTER!!!
Review: This book had too many descriptions. I saw the movie before I read the book and I have to say the movie is SO much better. I knew all this interesting stuff would happen, I just didn't know it would happen at 100-page intervals and with a non-exciting description! All I can say is that the movie is awesome and don't waste your time reading the books.P.S. I have to admit, the second book is better. However, I believe that is because of Frodo,Sam, and Gollum's scenes in the book. That is its only saving grace.
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Summary: The Fellowship of the Ring
Review: This a book depicting the classic conflict between pure evil and the good that is fighting it. What makes this story great is it's scale. Of such magnitude that it would be an understatement to call it an epic. The story begins with a genuine innocence, but becomes increasingly darker and full of more action as it goes on. Tolkien's brilliance can easily be enjoyed by falling in love with the characters he has created. He has formed and effectively layed down the ground work of fantasy/science fiction for hundreds of authors to follow in his footsteps by creating such ideas. When it comes to such stories, Tolkien is the master. This story kept me wanting more the entire way through. What really intrigued me as a reader was the intense details Tolkien uses to describe every aspect of the action in the story. With this amount of intensity and this magnitude of fantasy, a person who enjoys fiction can only enjoy this book.
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Summary: ...AND I THOUGHT "THE HOBBIT" WAS PHENOMENAL!!!
Review: I have read "The Hobbit" more than a couple of times in the past but was admittedly leary about the "Lord of the Rings Trilogy". Perhaps the size of the collection was intimidating...I am so glad I got over that!! I just recently finished part 1, "The Fellowship of the Ring" and am currently working on "The Two Towers." The books are absolutely mind-boggling!! They start up right where "The Hobbit" leaves off and are nothing short of adventurous and other-worldly. Tolkein creates a world of elves, dwarves, hobbits, wizards, and men that is fantastical in scope yet wholly believable. Tolkein knows how to pit evil against good in an epic and spectacular way.I would literally stay up nights until 2am with my little reading light, driving my husband crazy because I simply couldn't rest until I got to the end. I feel the same way about the second book! What's more is that I've read that the third book, "The Return of the King" is even better and I couldn't be more excited to get into it.
If you are a lover of good books and have been avoiding "The Lord of the Rings" because of all of its current movie hype, I can assure you it would be a foolish thing to pass up. Also, if you really want to start off right, begin with "The Hobbit" (if you have lots of time on your hands I would suggest starting with "The Silmarillion" which is the start of it all).
Tolkein was a world famous philologist and created his own "Elvish" language to create these books. They are perfect for readers young (young adult) and old and are a true means of escape from reality.
Let this be the review that gets you started on the reading adventure of a lifetime, one you'll likely never forget.
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Summary: Fellowship of the Ring
Review: Fellowship of the Ring
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
Reviewed by: Matt Gleason
The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien, is the first book of the thrilling Lord of the Ring series. The story takes place in Middle Earth where many good and bad things live. Frodo Baggins receives the, 'Ring of Power,' from his adoptive uncle who mysteriously vanished on his 111th birthday. Frodo must now take the ring to Mt. Doom and destroy it there, but Ring Wrath and Orcs are following him. With him he takes his friends Merry Pippin and Sam. Along the way they meet a man named Strider who helps them on their way. When they reach the house of Elrond, many other people, such as a dwarf, Gilmi, an elf, Legolos, a man named Boromir and their wizard friend, Gandalf the Grey, join them. I really like this book because the author uses strong descriptive verbs and adjectives. I also like this book because one thing is going to happen when a completely different thing happens. I give The Fellowship of the Ring a 4 out of 5 rating and recommend this book to anyone who likes suspense and danger.
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Summary: A classic, and yet...
Review: Call me a heretic if you will, but while I found _The Fellowship of the Rings_ to be an incredibly vivid and imaginative tale, I also found that in many places, it dragged. Tolkein was a genius, no doubt about that; however, he was also a bit obsessed with an insane number of details about the world he created. Naturally, this is partly why so many people love his books immensely, but for those of us who are more interested in advancing the story than in the lineage of a hobbit or elf, the intricate details can truly weigh the book down quite a lot. On the other hand, the details in the scene-setting are wonderful - it's probably more a case of "one woman's drek is another's dream" and so forth. I reckon there's more than one person out there who hates the lavish settings, but loves the history and storytelling-through-song. As a linguist, Tolkein definitely got the language details *right* throughout this series - his efforts there are extraordinary. And, while some people no doubt find the frequent songs in the book charming and entertaining, I generally found myself clenching my teeth to get through them. Further, characters like Tom Bombadil had really interesting elements, but most of them were buried in his too-merry flouncing and bopping about. I would have loved to have seen more discussion of his relationship with nature, and less of the "hey-ho, Bombadillo!" Overall, though, this is the kind of story that parents should read to their children, letting them get swept away in the vast realm of Middle Earth. Fan of fantasy will likely also enjoy seeing where many of the standards of the genre came from. While there are parts of it went really slowly for me, it was worth the time spent. Now, for the inevitable comparison between the book and the film, for those who have experienced one but not the other. Personally, and I could easily be hunted down and thrashed for this...I enjoyed the movie more. It eliminated many of the slower areas of the tale that I didn't enjoy, yet still remained largely true to the story. Many of my die-hard Tolkein-loving friends agree that the movie did an excellent job, and that secretly, some of them enjoyed it better, too. Still, it would be worth picking up a copy of the book to see if you'd really enjoy.
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Summary: Lord of the Rings........the best fantasy story ever
Review: Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings is easily the best told fantasy I have ever read and I feel shamed for seeing the movie before reading this truly incredible story. The Fellowship of the Rings is the first of the Lord of the Rings trilogy (The Hobbit being an opening to the series) and tells the story of the One Ring falling into the hands of Frodo the Hobbit. He learns soon after that Sauron, the Dark Lord, is in pursuit of the One Ring and thus Frodo must destroy it to save Middle Earth. The story itself is written well with intense diction and imagery that creates a living-breathing world. Each chapter is jammed with interesting information and action that keeps you turning page after page. This is an extremely brief overview of the book and if you have seen the movie and even remotely enjoyed the viewing I highly recommend this book because it is even more massive in scope.
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Summary: Read it once, read it again, and again, and again!
Review: This is the only work of fantasy prose in the last millenium which deserves all the awards which could be awarded to it. Tolkien outdoes himself with this first installment in the world famous trilogy, exceeding all limits with his creation of a new world, characters so deep you'll never be able to get yourself out of their heads after the first fifty pages, and a plot so complicated, and yet easy to understand for the reader, that the first time I read it, (when I was seven or eight), I knew that it was the best work of fantasy that I would ever read. I read it, read the other two of the trilogy, and read them all again, and again, and again, and I have read them at least once annually since. When you look at the trilogy all together, it looks like you'll never finish it, but the key to that is to read the first one, without thinking how long the others are. You'll love them, these priceless gems of fantasy from the mind of a genious, I garuntee it.
This edition is an example of a faithful unaltered or abriged, true to the author edition that you can trust, and read over and over, until it falls apart. I recommend it.
The plot centers around a ring, made in the distant past, which was created to give the dark lord Sauron the power to overrun middle earth with darkness and untold malice. He made the ring in the volcano in the middle of his dark kingdom, and that it the only place where it can be destroyed. But it was stolen from him. Follow the adventures of a Hobbit (a small sort of person, like a dwarf, but without the beard) to whom the ring has passed. Finding out what the ring is, and who is looking for it, Frodo Baggins, with his servant Samwise, set out to bring the ring to the Cracks of Doom, and destroy it once and for all.
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Summary: Book vs. Movie
Review: J. R. R. Tolkien was born on January 3rd 1892. He grew up in Birmingham, England where he earned a place at King Edwards school. He then went to Oxford university to study languages. He eventually became a profess of anglo-saxon there in Oxford. Lord of the Rings was published in 1954.
The first part, Fellowship of the Ring, was about a young hobbit who inherits a very powerful ring that changes his life greatly. His mind is opened to things that occur outside the peaceful life in the shire, his home. He has to change from a peaceful hobbit minding his own business into a courageous hero.
The book was very entertaining. After seeing the movie, I wanted to read the book. The book offers many more details that were not in the movie. Many scenes that were in the movie are lengthened. Many events in the book aren't even mentioned in the movie. Even some new characters that aren't mentioned in the movie are in the book. However after seeing the movie, some parts of the book were portrayed in the movie were less interesting and hard to read through. That contributed to the length of time it took me to read the book. Overall the book was a very good read. It might be more entertaining if you read the book before you see the movie.
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