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Summary: An Adventure beyond your imagination.
Review: The young hobbit Frodo Baggins has been chosen to go on a daring quest.A few words from the encourager. I have always enjoyed a good fantasy tale, and a heroic quest. It all started when I saw the animated cartoon based on the best selling book The Hobbit. Back then I was too young to read a thick novel. Aventualy I read the book The Hobbit. Now I am reading the conclusion series The Lord of the Rings. I have just finnished volume one The Fellowship of the ring, and I will be reading volume two The two towers very soon. The Fellowship of the Ring is focused on the young hobbit Frodo, and the evil one ring. If you do not know a Hobbit is a being slightly shorter than a dwarf, they have leathery and hairy feet, and often curly hair. Frodo, along with his eight companions Sam, Pippin, Merry, Aragorn, Boromir, Gandalf, Gimli, and Legolas, must send the ring into the fire it was created. The one rinc can help the evil sorcerer Souron destroy all good in middle earth. Can Frodo, and his companions put the ring into the fires of Mount Doom? Read the book, and find out. I sugest you read The Hobbit before you read The Lord of the Rings , because it will help you understand the story line of the conclusion. The only thing I don't like about this book, is it started to bore me for a while, but my interest returned. Never give up if it bores you, because your interest will return! If you like a daring quest, heroic adventures, and a good story line The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings are the books for you. I will end this with a quote from the book. In elven "Ash nazg durbatuluk, ash nazg gimbitul, ash nazg thrakatuluk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul!" In English "One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, One ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them!"
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Summary: Sheer genius -- completely supported throughout
Review: I will not belabor the obvious with praises of Tolkien's works. I've read the whole trilogy (and "The Hobbit," of course) over 30 times and love them all more with each reading. Just wanted to say to be sure to read the appendixes -- valuable and insightful (and amusing) additions to the storyline. Frodo Lives!
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Summary: Quintessential fantasy series......?
Review: Reading through reviews written by readers, I realized that every fantasy author at one time or another is compared to Tolkein. However understandable this may be, some "critics" eagerness to say that so-and-so is imitating Tolkein, or so-and-so isn't as good as Tolkein, they are losing sight of the fact that they aren't Tolkein. True most fantasy authors have read Tolkein and probably put a little of his style in their works, but the point to their novels is to entertain. For those of you who keep forgetting this, you should either stop reading fantasy or open your mind a little and get a life. It's getting annoying and for anyone reading these reviews, who isn't a fan of fantasy yet, he or she may get the wrong idea as to the point of fantasy books, and never get introduced to what fantasy has to offer. It's not based around Tolkien, regardless of how good his books are, or how he pushed fantasy into the mainstream. The point of fantasy is the same as in any other genre, to entertain. For people out there who are looking for entertainment and not something to bitch about, Tolkein is a great introduction to fantasy. If you have already read some fantasy and not Tolkein, pick his books up, they are really good.
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Summary: First of a trilogy.
Review: I would personally suggest, especially for impatient people, that you begin reading this trilogy with "The Two Towers" and then "Return of The King". You can come back to this one, and will appreciate it more. (I did this, because my parents owned only the latter books. I bought this one myself later on. And then The Hobbitt and Unfinished Tales, going backwards in a sense.) Several things will be mysterious, but that adds to the excitement in my view. Life is a mystery too.
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Summary: Speach Less
Review: This on the other books of the Lord of The Rings are outstanding. I cannot imagin how one man could of written such books. These are the best.
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Summary: An enchanting work of literature!
Review: The Fellowship of the Ring leads the reader on a journey of triumph and defeat. Yet, the reader is rewarded in the end with a feeling of content and satisfaction. The novel begins with a complex telling of the origin of "hobbits", the odd, dwarf-like creatures that utilize much of the story's topics. The reader is then introduced to a ring, once in the clutches of the cunning Dark Lord, who wishes to conquer creatures living throughout the land. Yet, in order to do so, he must have in his posession the empowering ring that rules all. The only problem is, this ring is obtained by the hobbit-folk (Bilbo Baggins and his nephew Frodo). And the hobbits are unaware of the danger of the ring. Not only does it make the wearer invisible, but it empowers them.
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Summary: All other books and stories will be a let-down.
Review: I wish that the Lord of the Rings trilogy was the last story I have ever read in my life. I have been trying for 30 years to find a story that can fill the void left by finishing this trilogy. But I can't. I know now that all books to come will never satisfy me like these great works. And there is no other place that I would rather be now than in Middle-Earth. I suspect that one day I will go there when my time has passed here.
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Summary: the best book the world has ever seen
Review: Many people have found the work of Ronald Tolkien to be To slow and boring, others find it to be to complex, and confusing. The more enlightened individuals of the world realize that, while the works of Tolkien are in fact a myhtology in themselves, his books are in fact some of the best literature ever written, if you have the time, I strongly suggest you read this book
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Summary: Good, but difficult to appreciate the first time you read it
Review: First of all, this book will make little, if any, sense unless you have read The Hobbit. Believe me, I have tried it. So I read it a second time, after reading The Hobbit. It was good, I liked the characters and it was well written and a great story, but it seemed difficult to read because of so many references to things that had little to do with the rest of the story, especially the chapters that took place in Rivendell. My advice to anyone who wants to read Lord of the Rings is this: first, read The Hobbit. Go ahead and read this book, then The Two Towers and The Return of the King (you will probably like those two better). Then, read this book again after completing the trilogy. It will make much more sense the second time around, and you appreciate this book so much more. This really is a great series, and after exhausting myself with reading yet another Wheel of Time book (Robert Jordan fans can relate) I found myself re-reading the whole Lord of the Rings trilogy, which I found to be a pleasant change of pace. Robert Jordan should have taken a few more notes from Tolkien's works before launching himself into his never-ending story. I think anyone will agree, Tolkien is often imitated, but never duplicated.
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Summary: Awesome beginning to an awesome trilogy
Review: I first read this book when I was about 10, and I've reread it about twenty times in four years. This is a must for anyone interested in books at all. The depth of the world created within its pages simply boggles the mind. There is simply no way to describe it that does it justice. It is THE BEST. End of story. Once you start this or any of Tolkien's books, you won't stop until you've read them all. Believe me, I've done just that. I started with the Hobbit, then I finished the trilogy within a year. These books will totally absorb you. Buy them, read them and then read them again!
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