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Summary: Excellent
Review: This whole series, has, by far, proven to be the best that I have ever read. It is a vast epic of sweeping proportions and implications. Tolkien is a genius when it comes to portraying a character's emotions, and the storyline is first - rate. Anyone that enjoyed The Hobbit will definitely like these books.
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Summary: Tolkien just keeps getting better
Review: I read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings five years ago, and then again earlier this year. They are wonderful. The Lord of the Rings, however, is much darker than The Hobbit. In The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins found a powerful ring. Now, his nephew Frodo is on a mission to destroy it, before it can be used to overpower all that is good in Middle-Earth. The characters are complex and believable, the land itself is the most detailed fantasy world ever created; it has a very vivid history. Some scenes in the first half are corny (like the Tom Bombadil scenes), but the rest of it is exactly as it should be. If you haven't read it, you don't know what you're missing.
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Summary: The most powerful series I have EVER read.
Review: This book, as well as the Hobbit, and the rest of the Lord of the Rings, have given to me a gift of experience. These feelings are some of the most powerful and moving feelings I have ever felt. If you let these books take you away, and accept them, they will do the same for you. An 11, ALL of them.
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Summary: A book for the ages.
Review: For everyone who has felt the world was against them... For everyone who believes there must be something better... For everyone who believes in honor and integrity... For everyone who believes the world is not the way it appears... this is the work to read.From the depths of despair through the plodding of one's necessary tasks to the heights of unexpected glories The Lord of the Rings carriers the reader along through a world we wish still existed. The Lord of the Rings extols the great worth of the heart of the individual. It provides a stage where creatures of all kinds and, contrary to less-informed reviewers, both sexes triumph over seemingly insurmountable pride and arrogance. It capitalizes on our inner belief that who we are is far more important than how we appear and gives physical forms to our best aspirations. If I were an Egyptian Pharaoh and able to take only one work of fiction with me on my next journey, The Lord of the Rings would be it.
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Summary: YOU HAVE NEVER READ UNTIL YOU READ THIS
Review: This story is unprecedented and will never be topped by any other author for scope. You can get lost in this book and live another life in it.
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Summary: One of the great works of imaginative fiction
Review: My aunt read The Hobbit to me when I was a child, and as soon as I could manage The Lord of the Rings, I did. I was nine years old, and it filled me with a sense of wonder that I can barely describe. It is a book which I returned to when my complicated adult life became difficult, and I was able to discover so much that was new in Tolkien's writing, and rediscover a sort of child's wonder as well. Yes, there is much about The Lord of the Rings which might be considered old fashioned, and I see that as clearly as anyone. But I always tell people to look past this to the themes of the book: the importance of community, of friends, of family.
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Summary: The classic fantasy-book
Review: Frodo Baggins has to save the world from the evil Sauron, with the help of his trustworthy friends, the wizard Gandalf the Gray, and the mysterious Aragorn. Against him stands the monsters known as Orcs, under the lead of the feared Nazûl. The plot is good, but simple and predictable. The characters are mostly good, but sometimes they do things totally without reason. It's a little bit plain, and would have been better if there were at least one person who wasn't white, black or absolutely gray (yes, that's possible). My main complaint however is that there are no women! They simply don't exist in the book, one of the biggest signs of tFotR's writing-date. And while this book is good, it's not as great as many will have it, though it's a nice read, not the least since it's one of the first real fantasy books. I'd recomend you to buy it, but don't expect too much.
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Summary: Wholly without peer
Review: If you read fantasy and you haven't yet read The Lord of the Rings, then you haven't read fantasy at all. All other fantasy pales in comparison; R.A. Salvatore and the rest of his TSR cronies are mere hacks. Tolkien stands alone as the master of the Secondary World.
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Summary: the best book i have ever read
Review: This was the greatest trilogy I have ever read!
Ibeg you to read these books. The first book is called the Lord of the Rings. The second is called The Two Towers. The final book is called The Return of the King, which was my favorite. The books have two parts. The first part is about 4 hobbits taking the great Ring of Sauron to be destroyed at Mount Doom which is located in the black land of Mordor.
The second part tells of the War of the Ring.
Which occures in the capitol of Gondor (Minis Tirith) to draw Sauron out of his land so Frodo can finish his quest. I had many character that l liked. Such as Gimli the dwarf, Legolas the elf, Gandalf the wizard, Theoden the King,Treebeard the Ent, and finnaly the evil creature gollum. I strongly suggest reading this trilogy. I also strongly suggest readin The Hobbit
first, so you can understand it better.
READ IT!
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Summary: Uncomparable Series
Review: Tolkien takes fantasy and imagination to a different level. His uses of mideival vocabulary are superb. The greatest author of all time, period
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