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Summary: "Fellowship of the Ring: Part 1 & 2,Unabridged (15 audio ca
Review: This is a review of "Fellowship of the Ring: Part 1 & 2, Unabridged (15 audio cassettes)"The reader is quite good and uses different voices for the different characters. The cassettes are clearly marked so you can place them in the player in a car with out having to look for a little "side a symbol." When side one comes to an end you can press the button to side two and the recording starts there. There are no long empty spaces from the first to the last. Being unabridged, you get Tolkien's words on the fact that the story is not an allegory or has anything to do with any real war.
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Summary: Ringbearer
Review: The Fellowship of the rings: it has been over sixty years since Bilbo Baggins went on the famous adventure and found the ring. This is what Frodo the adopted heir of Bilbo must take and bear and all cost. The fellowship itself is four hobbits, two men, a dwarf, an elf, and Gandalf the Grey. They travel with Frodo to protect and help guard the ring from the eye of sauron and the greedy hands of Saruman and Gollum. They take them all they way to mordor with great trouble but then... Tolkien wins again. After the hobbit you could only hope of a repeat and he gives to you and some. It is another epic fantasy that only Tolkien can write. Read it if you can, you will love it. By: Michael
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Summary: Better than Harry Potter
Review: I like this book because I like science fiction. It was pretty hard to follow because they used old english. My favorite part was when they had the party and Bilbo left, and gave the ring to Frodo.This was a very good book I recommend it. You should read the Hobbit first though.
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Summary: the best fantasy novel ever written
Review: this book is... beautiful. incredibly well-written and vivid. it brought back my imagination. read this book, and read the entire wonderful trilogy. afterwards, you will have wonderful things to muse on as your mind will be lifted from the mundane to the gorgeous world and characters Tolkien has created.
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Summary: Magnificent. Beautiful. Breathtaking.
Review: Wow! What an amazing book. Mr. Tolkien is an amazing writer. The vividness of his world is utterly unbeleivable. When reading any of his works, I feel as if I am seeing and feeling exactly what the main character is seeing or feeling whether it be frightened or happy. The main character in this case is the hobbit, Frodo Baggins, who is the nephew of Bilbo Baggins, the lovable main character in the Hobbit. Frodo is heir to the ring of power and knows the terrible ringwraiths were searching for him to steal the ring which would enable the dark lord Sauron to destroy all that was good in the Middle-Earth. His journey is full of sights and adventures, both good and bad. I would like to journey to the Middle-Earth after reading this magnificent book. I admit that it is slow in some places but it is worth the time and it will get you reading the whole trilogy.
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Summary: beautiful, ingenious and sad
Review: Why read this book? You'd miss an awful lot if you omitted it! I decided to read the Hobbit because a friend of mine told me that it was the most beautiful English book she ever read. (She was only partly right: The Lord of the Rings (or the part I have read until now) is even greater.) After that I couldn't do without reading the Lord of the Rings. The complex and beautiful world Tolkien created and described is without doubt the work of a genius. I can't remember ever seeing the land a book described so clear before my eyes like I did while reading this book. The story is a sad one, unlike the Hobbit. It's more serious and much deeper, and for my taste too realistic in some ways (I'm not going to spoil it and tell you in which:P). I still hope that it turns out better than in seemes to do now, at the end of book one, and I really can't wait until I have read the next part! Don't let yourself being disheartened by the slow start and by the way some things need their time to devenlop, for without these slow parts one'd have no idea of what is going on in the story! I recommend leaving out the prolouge, for that can really be nerve-racking. And if you're still undecided whether to read it or not: This book is nothing for you only if you hate everything that you can't be sure of to exist in real.
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Summary: ONE OF MY FAVORITES
Review: For me this book started out slow. But as their journey continued, I was completely caught up. The story is great. And if you liked "The Hobbit", you have to read this.
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Summary: Fabulous!
Review: I just finished this book last night. It is incredible! The characterization is amazing, and the setting is so wonderfully convincing that I felt amazed when I would look up and see my TV across the living room instead of Middle Earth. That being said, I did not find that the tale was as tightly woven as "The Hobbit" and it did, indeed, drag in parts. However, these are small briefs with a great work of art and I cannot wait to read the next two books.
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Summary: The Second Greatest Book of all time!
Review: This is the second greatest book of all time (The Hobbit being the first). It has everything you need: magic, might, swords, sorcery-but with one difference: Tolkien is able to make all these elements, put them all together and make it all seem real. While you read The Fellowship of the Ring, you feel as if Middlearth is a real place and that the characters are real too. I have never gotten so into a book series as Tolkien's Lord of The Ring. People sometimes say Fantasy is stupid or weird. I woudl agree for the most part (sorry). Then one day on a lark, I read The Hobbit and it changed my perspective. I came to realize that Fanstasy (as a genre) can be as respectable as mainstream literature. Tolien is a literaty genius. Every part of this novel i s perfect, I'm not saying that because I like it, I say it because I think that every writer should read this book to see how a story is meant to be told: with heart.
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Summary: The Father of Them All
Review: To this day, even the greatest find it difficult to match Tolkien. You can still feel the freshness and innovation that marked the beginning of his genre. Almost any reader will have to confess that there are tedious parts, but they enrich the storyline and add a depth possessed by few other worlds. The characters are alive and breathing. The humor is memorable and the friendships lasting. Tolkien describes everything, giving the world a feeling of reality. Modern day fantasy sometimes gives the impression of being a movie or TV show. There's nothing but exciting parts and footage seems to be cut out. There are two or three points of major crisis in The Fellowship. In modern fantasy it's ten, twenty, thirty times, vainly trying to get a rise out of the reader. The Fellowship and the remainder of Lord of the Rings is the work of a man who invites you to live in his world and doesn't apply the impatient force of constant action and employ all the usual gimmicks. Many people criticize the flow of Tolkien's writing, but his books are fantasy in its purest form. This book is a must-read for more than its entertainment value. The Lord of the Rings is the key to understanding the genre. All fantasy books that follow the Ring Trilogy have definite roots to the father of them all. If you read through The Fellowship and its sequels and are still hungry for more, I would recommend Brooks and Eddings, my favorites.
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