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Summary: Ultimate Epic Fantasy
Review: Elves. Dwarves. Hobbits. These are just a few of the many amazing creatures in this fantasy story brought to life by J.R.R. Tolkien. The first book in the Lord of the Rings trilogy is one of the best-written books I have ever read in my life. The story begins with Bilbo Baggins leaving his homeland of Hobbiton and leaving the dark, mysterious One Ring in the care of his nephew Frodo Baggins. Frodo is the main character throughout the trilogy. His friend and wizard, Gandolf the Grey, knows of the Ring and senses the danger behind it. Frodo is instructed to leave Hobbiton and take the Ring so it will be safe. He takes along his friends Sam, Merry, and Pippin. The Hobbits encounter danger in their quest to find a way to keep the Ring safe from its evil maker, Sauron, who is hunting the ring in order to rule the world. They finally reach Rivendell, the home of the elves, where the leaders of the elves, dwarves, and humans along with Frodo and Bilbo had a counsel meeting to decide what must be done with the Ring. This is the point in the book where the plot begins to thicken tremendously. Saying more would only give the best parts of the book away. The style in which this book is written has a mix of Old English in it, but the book is not hard to understand. Tolkien describes his characters in such a way that one can actually feel like they know the character. Tolkien provides such a great depth in his explanations of history and landscape. Some people may get bored saying that he drags the story on and on. However, the way that he uses description in his novel only adds more beauty and life to his epic fantasy. I strongly recommend this novel to anyone who loves to read and has a vivid imagination. The Fellowship of the Ring takes a deep commitment to stick to it and one's full attention to fully enjoy this wonderful book. The Fellowship of the Ring offers fantasy, adventure, and friendship wrapped in one extraordinary novel. The best thing about reading The Fellowship of the Ring is knowing that there are still two more novels waiting to be read in the wonderful Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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Summary: Best Book on the List
Review: I have this book and the rest of the series however i have only read this one! This book is EXTREMELY good!!!!!! I am on the B.O.B. team and it is on our list next year. I read it a few months ago and i LOVE it!!!!! It is soooo good! I am reading it soon for the second time. I am halfway through "Two Towers" and i stopped reading to work on the list but i am planning to finish it this summer. The Fellowship of The Ring is one my favorite book. People find it overrated because so many people like it. I wasnt going to read it at all because i was one of those people but i finally did and it is my favorite so give it a chance!
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Summary: A Hobbit's Destiny
Review: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
Reviewed by: W. Horng
Per.6 This story talks about Frodo, a hobbit, who get hold of the Ring of Power and he had to destroy it in the mouth of Mt. Doom. At the beginning he was just a regular hobbit when his uncle Bilbo's old friend, Gandalf, came to celebrate Bilbo's 110th birthday! Gandalf found out that Bilbo has a magic ring but doesn't know that it was the Ring of Power. When he found out, he gave the ring to Frodo and told him to leave the Shire and go to the Prancing Pony to meet him. That's when Frodo and his friends Sam, Pippin, and Merry met Aragorn, a warrior who's suppose to be the king of Gondor. Together, Aragorn, Frodo, and his friends went to Rivendell, where the elves live. After they arrived at Rivendell, many people were gathered around to discuss how to destroy the Ring. Frodo volunteered with Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Boromir,and Frodo's friends. So the nine companions set out to Mt. Doom. Will they destroy the Ring of Power???
I like this book because it's so intense and amazing that you don't want to stop reading, especially when they were battling with the orcs or Urak hais. The sad thing was that the fellowship broke very soon after Gandalf fell down from the bridge of Khazad-dum with the Balrog that he was fighting with. The last words he said was to Frodo, " Run, you fool!" That part almost made me cry. It must felt really bad to watch as an old friend fall to his doom.
The part that I don't like about the book is Sauramon betraying the good and joining forces with Sauron, the Lord of the Rings who can destroy all of what is good in Middle-earth. Gadalf was shocked when he heard Sauramon said," Let's join with sauron, it's a much wiser choice." Gandalf refused to join with Sauron so Sauramon held him as capitive, luckily, he escaped. Gandalf left Sauramon with these words, " There is only one Lord of the Rings and he will not share his power."
My favorite part was when Frodo thought he got stabbed by the cave troll and was about to die, but he was wearing mythril, an armor light as a feather and as hard as dragon's scale, so he survived. I also like frodo's sword, Sting. I like it because each time when orcs are near, the sword glows, the brighter the closer the orcs are. If I have those things, then I wouldn't be afraid of battling anyone(Well, maybe except Demons and Balrogs).
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Summary: Excellent
Review: The Fellowship of the Ring is an excellent book just as his others. There are three books in the whole story that are very elaborate. Every character fits perfectly in the story like Tolkien knew about the history that no one else had. In the Fellowship, It explains a lot about each character's story and why they were chosen to go on this amazing quest. I liked Tolkien's detail to the environment in the story. You can almost see in your head where the characters are. I would though, have liked to see what the characters were talking about on some of the long journeys, or more of how the characters reacted to each other.
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Summary: Tolkien's Challenge
Review: I believe that this story is J.R.R. Tolkien's test to himself as a writer. It was to see whether or no he could start from nothing and bulid up a whole new world for his audience to look at. He created lands, peoples, geographical structures, and family histories. It is the perfect fictional world in the eye of J.R.R. Tolkien. In my opinion he succeeded, yet not only did he succeed he shocked his audience. It is a great strory of a journey of faithful friends and their fight against evil that everyone interested in fantasy fiction should read.
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Summary: The Start of a Great Adventure
Review: The Lord of the Rings: Felloship of the Rings, is the start of the greatest adventure in the history of middle earth. Frodo Baggins, a young hobbit, is sent out to destroy a ring, made by an evil lord. The only way to destroy the powerfull ring, is to drop it into the cracks of doom, where it was made. Frodo sets off in this adventure, and soon runs into trouble.
This book keeps you wondering about the evil forces and thier powers, since they are very hard to see at first. The book displays many common problems we have today. It shows how idiotic some discrimination is. The dwarf wasn't allowed to walk through the woods of the elves without wearing a blindfold. The elves were enemies with the dwarfs, because they believed in diffrent things, just as some people hurt others because of religion or race, which is very wrong. The story also shows that one person can make a difference. Frodo made the journey to his first destination injured, but he did his job. And he was just a small halfling against the forces of evil. There are more relations, and I could go on, but I think you understand. English teachers can have a fun time thinking of projects to do off of this book.
This book is a medival fantacy style book. This book is for people with around an 8th grade reading level, yet to fully understand the books English, it would help to be a better reader. I think that if you want to read the Lord of the Rings, get through this book fast, before you lose intrest, then get into the other books, which have more action.
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Summary: The Fellowship of the Ring
Review: Frodo is a hobbit who has just inherited a mysterious magical ring from his Uncle Bilbo. Gandalf, a wise wizard and close friend of Frodo, advises him to never wear the ring and to keep it hidden, safe, and secret. Gandalf tells Frodo that an ancient and evil lord named Sauron forged the ring to rule the other magic rings possessed by dwarves, men, and elves. In resistance to this ring, men and elves battled the forces of Sauron, eventually defeating him. The ring was then believed to be lost. Thousands of years later Bilbo found the ring and passed it on to Frodo, however Sauron had reawakened and was seeking it. To prevent Sauron from obtaining the ring Frodo had to journey to Mordor, the forging place of the ring, to destroy it. The book The Fellowship of the Ring goes on to tell the extraordinary tale of Frodo and his eight companions as they journey to Mordor to destroy the ring. However, the Fellowship doesn't survive the journey into Mordor, and Frodo, with his best friend Sam, must finish the task alone. The book and the movie The Fellowship of the Ring differ from each other. For example, in the book the Fellowship did not fight a cave troll in Moria, but just see one. When the Company reaches Lothlorien it takes them several days of hiking through the forest before they reach the elf city of Lorien and speak with Lady Galadriel. The movie also doesn't show most of the places that Frodo visited during his quest, such as Tom Bombadil's house and the Barrow Downs. The Fellowship of the Ring is a great book and I recommend it to anyone who likes an exiting and suspenseful read. The Two Towers and The Return of the King are sequels to The Fellowship of the Ring and are equally exiting. The Hobbit is the enchanting prelude to the Lord of the Rings books and explains how Bilbo found the ring.
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Summary: Where's the action?
Review: Last year I read the Hobbit and thought it was pretty good, so I decided to read the LOTR. About halfway through The Fellowship Of The Ring, it started to get really boring and I about gave up. But for some reason I decided to read the whole thing. Finally, I got through the book and bought the second book, The Two Towers, thinking it would be more exciting and that there would be more fighting. But, was I wrong. I finally gave up at about 4/5 the way through. A few months back, however, I decided to give the LOTR another try because everyone kept talking about how great it was. I painfully got through the first book for the second time and was halfway through the second book when I just got so bored I started skiping pages. Finally, I got through the second book and I guess if you read the first two books you have to read the third. So, I bought the last book and pretty much skimmed through all the pages. In fact, all I can remember is how the ring was destroyed! I wanted to like LOTR, I really did, but I guess I never will. I don't know why people worship these books, there's nothing exciting about them.
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Summary: The Best Series
Review: This is a great book. You'd be surprised to see how different the movie and the book are. And they are so different, that it would not be good to read the Two Towers after watching the Fellowship of the Ring movie. You would miss so much. And I would also recomend reading The Hobbit. But anyway, the story is about a Hobbit named Frodo. In the beginning Bilbo, Frodo's uncle (who you will find more about in The Hobbit), is visited by an old friend: Gandalf the Grey. Bilbo announces that "This is the end", and he slips on the ring, and leaves Hobbiton in the Shire. I do not think that it would be a good idea to tell you much more, so you'll just have to read it. But remember, it will not work seeing the Fellowship and then reading the Two Towers.
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Summary: Nothing like this
Review: "Three Rings for the Elven-Kings under the Sky
Seven for the Dwarf-Lord in their halls of stone,
Nine for the Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord, upon his dark throne,
in the land of Mordor where shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
in the land of Mordor where shadows lie." And that is the summary of the tale of Sauron, Lord of the Rings, who sought to rule the Land of Middle Earth until his defeat. Though his body is dead, his soul and will are preserved through the power of the Sauron's Evil Ring. What is good, and what is evil? "The Lord of the Rings" concerns the battle of good agaisnt evil, in which evil is represented by a small, golden Ring. The Evil Ring, lost for thousands of years, is now under the keep of the little man, Bilbo Baggins, who passes it on to his heir, Frodo. But as the ancient evil of the Ring and its master, Sauron, grows, Frodo must now destroy the Ring, or else the power of evil will be strong. And since the Ring was made in the volcano, Mt. Doom, only there could it be destroyed. With courage and hope, Frodo and his band, the Fellowship of the Ring, must go on a dangerous mission to Mt. Doom, in order to rid themselves of the Evil Ring. "The Lord of the Rings" is unlike any other story that you know. This one of the rare stories that combine serious drama with slap stick comedy, fantasy, and exciting adventure. It is neither too dark, nor too kiddie. It is a story created for all audiences. There has never been a story like this, which will be remembered for years. In fact, though it was made in the 1950's, it is still read and loved. Though the book is long and at some parts it is slow, it's good that there are exciting parts, such as the Bridge of Kazad-dum. In my opinion, J.R.R. Tolkien has created a new type of fairy tale.
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