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Summary: Incredible!
Review: This book is a fanstastic example of fantasy literature. I couldn't put it down except when Tom Bombadil showed up(if you read it you would understand) the charectars are true to their charectars and the setting is greater than any I've seen. You must read the series and then the "Silmarrilion"
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Summary: Transcends Time! Will Endure Alongside Homer years ahead.
Review: I was just checking this site out for the first time, and I have to leave this comment, those who said this novel is boring should learn the virtue of patience and understanding. The first portion of the book many claim to be boring, in fact it is just slow and is imperative to developing the deep rich story to unfold, much like Stephen King does in his novels(whadda you know he's the most reknowned author of Horror in the world!)so they are quite obviously a key component to the story, while in many novels I read I was left to guess about a character or there were just flat characters. This book will go down in history along with it's other companions. The number of publications Tolkien's many works have recieved is proof of the quality of his work which has set the standard for fantasy writing, which remains unparalleled to this day. Few authors compare to Tolkien, but these in my opinion come closest. Terry Brooks, David Eddings and the duo(Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman). There are many other authors which you already know who write forgettable novels. Tolkien's works are unforgettable and I haven't read this trilogy for 5 or 6 years, when I was in 6th or 7th grade and I only read it once, and I can recall that I did not want it to end, for several days afterward I would just lay flabbergasted on my bed after school and in the morning and dream about the vivid characters and places which Tolkien had unfolded me, I can still remember the entire story after not having turned a page since the years I read it. I have read many other fantasy books and most I found to be the same predictable formula which quickly becomes boring. Sticking through with the remainder of this series you will discover for yourself how Tolkien stands apart.
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Summary: SOOOO BAD-BORING
Review: this book was so boring and bland, tolkein dwells on the obvius and never loks back there is no excitement, if you want REAL fantasy read TERRY BROOKS THE SWORD OF SHANNARA! END
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Summary: A magnificent tour de force of human imagination...
Review: Tolkien's saga is a magnificent work. Unparalleled in scope and detail. Few other works of fantasy even come close to creating the mythic appeal that this novel has evoked. I believe Tolkien's work is now considered a form of mythology than a mere novel. It's characters are profoundly relevant in thought and action. While the political scheme and the places are far different than earth, the characters live like us and act like us, they come with all the quips and foibles of our character. In short Tolikien expresses this profoundly encompassing work as part metaphor, part fantasy story. This is more than a great read, as one reads it more and more, one is drawn into the world of Middle Earth, drawn into its history and its characters. This is not a novel to be read but a saga to be experienced.
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Summary: This classic is masterly writen
Review: The adventures through Middle Earth are intersting and intertaining. I enjoy this book alot and wish for other people to enjoy the experince. This book by J.R.R. Tolkin is masterly crafted and leaves you beging for more. The adventures are both realisic and fun to read. I wish for you to read this book. Thank you for reading my review.
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Summary: A New Generation of Tolkien Lovers
Review: One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them... I know a lot of people that think kids today are hopeless. Sometimes I agree with them. I am 12 years old, and I am currently reading The Two Towers. I have the whole set, starting from The Hobbit, all the way through Return of the King. I think all the books (so far) are awesome. I've always hoped to find something like Lord of the Rings. When I read it, I get totally absorbed into the world of Middle-Earth. Sometimes people will be screaming my name into my ear and I won't hear them. I've been introducing it to my friends (most of whom have read The Hobbit already). Some of my friends on the internet, all either 11, 12, or 13, introduced it to me. I think it's great when you can relate to someone years older than you who has read the same books. For anyone who has ever wanted an escape from the real world into someplace totally new, young or old, I recommend this book to you.
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Summary: Nice
Review: This is a terrific book. Although it gets hard at some parts, this book still is very involved and it illustrated my mind into a whole different world, and so did the Hobbit, which, though childish, is a great piece of literature too, though it has no comparison to The Lord of the Rings. The book begins with Bilbo Baggins's (who happens to be one of my favorite characters in the book, though scarcly in it) eleventy-first birthday, in which he mysteriously disappears right in the middle of his speech. How? Well, I can't tell you that or it will spoil the whole story. Well, he leaves Frodo, his cousin, the one ring of the Elven Rings of Power, which Sauron, the Dark Lord, has been desperately trying to find for thousands of years when it was taken from his finger by Isildor, who you'll read about later in it. Frodo and a Fellowship of different species and so forth now must go all the the way to Mordor, Sauron's homeland, and cast the ring back into the Cracks of Doom where it was forged...
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Summary: This is Life's True Tome of Life
Review: What a masterpiece of thought!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have read the Trilogy about 35 times and every time it is just as good and meaningful. Nothing else has touched my life like the writings of Tolkien. I hope when I pass on someday, my heaven shall be Middle Earth. Thank you Johnathan Ronald Reule Tolkien!!!!!
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Summary: A stunning sequel to the Hobbit
Review: Bilbo Baggins is celebrating his eleventy first birthday, but with a puff of smoke (compliments of Gandalf), and the slipping on of a certain gold ring, he is back at Bag-End and preparing his will, leaving bag-End to his adopted nephew, Frodo. He is off to Rivendell and Elrond to "see the mountains before I die". During the chaos of Hobbits claiming their (and sometimes others) property, Frodo gets tired of Hobbiton... As the story continues Frodo gets to Rivendell (practically on his death bed, from a wound from a knife of Mordor) and there he finds Bobomir, Aragorn (aka Strider), Gimli the Dwarf and Legolas the Elf.
I recommend this book if you like fantasy- adventure novels such as: The Redwall Series by Brian Jacques, The Darkangel Trilogy by Meredith Ann Peirce, any book by Lloyd Alexander and the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis.
All of these I have read and enjoyed.
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Summary: JORDAN WILL BOW TO THE GLORY OF TOLKIEN
Review: I have to say that I believed Robert Jordan to be the lord of Fantasy. Well I repent for I have seen the light. Tolkien is not only the lord of Fantasy but he is a GOD! I have to say that I have never had this much fun and joy reading a book in all my life. This book is also deep and very rich. The world Tolkien creates is so real and his characters are so intricate that I have to slap myself for ever thinking of Robert Jordan as the King. In Jordan's books you get the same richness of his world but not like Tolkiens. It's weird. It's like Tolkien has some special skill that becomes apart of his words. Oh yeah, and Jordan waits up to 4 years to bring out his next book. While this is insulting to the fans and shows how smug Jordan can be I can't help but appreciate the sincerity of Tolkien. This books is pure Magic!!!!!
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