The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Book 1)

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Summary: Great Book.
Review: This is the first part in the "LOTR" trilogy. Who hasen't read "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring"? This book has movie art cover. But this still is a classic! So if you don't have this book, get it! Man this is great. Read it today!

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Summary: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Review: When Frodo Baggins accepts a mission to destroy an evil ring, he doesn't know what he is getting into. In this book, the Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien, many things happen to the young Hobbit, Frodo. This was a well written book, and a wonderful story.
In the book, The Fellowship of the Ring, there lived a hobbit (a small creature, looking much like a man, only smaller) named Frodo Baggins. Frodo's uncle, Bilbo, came across a ring on an adventure of his. This ring, as he later found out, was the ring of power, made in the fires of Mount Doom, by Sauran, the dark lord. The man who told Bilbo about this was a wizard named Gandalf the Grey. This wizard knew that this ring had to, and could only be, destroyed in the mountain in which it was conceived. For this task, Gandalf chose Frodo. When Frodo this mission, not knowing the danger of it, he set off to Mount Doom, along with three friends to destroy the ring. On the long quest there, he stopped at Rivendale, an elven fortress, and meets with Gandalf, and various known warriors. At this meeting, a fellowship was forged; it was called the Fellowship of the Ring. This Fellowship is to protect Frodo and the evil ring. Throughout this book, this group falls apart. Some die, some are captured, but some still survive.
The Fellowship of the Ring was a very well written book. It is my opinion that this is, because it presents a higher level in a book that almost all age groups read. Also, it explained things with an obvious presence of higher writing. Some examples are, the book itself, it is an example because there are no weaknesses at all in this book. The book also is a great storyline for a book. I feel this way because it shows the struggle for good or evil.
In The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien, Frodo Baggins goes on a dangerous quest to destroy evil for all eternity. Overall, this was a very good book. It had more than the necessary components to be called a, "good book". Unquestionably, this was an excellent book because it had a fun storyline and was extremely well written.

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Summary: The Fellowship of the Ring
Review: J.R.R. Tolkien wrote the novel The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring as an exercise for his profession in linguistics. The beautifully written adventure is about a man and an important task that befell him.
The tale begins in a small hill in Hobbiton called Bag End where Bilbo and Frodo Baggins dwell. Frodo receives and heirloom from Bilbo that will put him on an adventure of a life time. He leaves Hobbiton with only one companion but ends up with eight, also meeting friends along the way. As Frodo passes through the land of Middle Earth, he meets great evil, but he also has his friends to help him through.
As I read this book, I kept thinking about how the story was an epic battle between good and evil. Every day Americans face bad situations with drugs and violence. This is a great book for the adventurous at heart and people who want to travel to a distant land with out actually going anywhere. Tolkien uses great feeling and emotion when writing the elvish songs and chants. He also describes the landscape so well you can visualize it in your mind. In one of the songs, it talks about an elvish queen, Galadriel, and the land she rules, Lothlorien. "An elven-maid there was of old, a shining star by day: Her mantle white was hemmed with gold, her shoes of silver grey. A star was bound upon her brow, a light was on her hair, as sun upon the golden boughs, in fair Lorien the fair". I highly recommend this book to any one who loves adventures and I also would recommend that you would wait to read the series until about seventh grade. Over all on a scale from 1-10, I'd give it a 15!
In conclusion, this story about a man and his adventure was excellently written and well thought out and a wonderful story for all who might take the time to read it. I think that you should definitely read this series starting with The Hobbit so you will fully understand the series.

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Summary: The Fellowship of The Ring
Review: In the book The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien, the One Ring of the Dark Lord is found; so a fellowship of nine people set out to destroy it. This book is very well written but a little confusing to understand.
The main character, the Hobbit, Frodo Baggins, inherits the One Ring from his uncle Bilbo Baggins. In the book Gandalf the Grey, a wizard, discovers that the ring is that of the enemy. So Frodo sets out for the Elf city, Rivendell, with his best friend Samwise Gamgee and his two cousins Merry and Pippin. Along the way they meet the Aragorn, the Man, who helps them to get to their destination. In Rivendell the Elf Lord Elrond makes a fellowship of nine people consisting of the four hobbits, Gandalf, and Aragorn, with the new members, Gimli the Dwarf, Boromir the Man, and Legolas the Elf. They set off to destroy the Ring. Since this book is part one of the trilogy of The Lord of the Rings books, the rest of the story is continued in The Two Towers and The Return of the King. The characters struggle through many injuries and problems but somehow the manage to get through them.
This book, although a little confusing to understand, is very well written. By "well written" I mean that it was very well thought-out and because Tolkien had a very big imagination he wrote a good story, for example he made up all the languages and places in the book. It also pulls you in making you think that you are there. The weaknesses are the book being a little confusing a pretty long. For example some of the words are hard to pronounce, like the names of people and places. Another example of it being confusing is it is a little hard to follow, you really have to pay attention to the book so you know what is going on. As long as you do this you can be sure to understand and enjoy this book.
In conclusion this book was outstanding, probably the best book I've ever read. Tolkien is very imaginative and writes well. If you read this book I would recommend the other two books and the three movies that are based upon the book. If you've seen the movies I recommend the books to you. I think the best part about this book is when I finished it because I knew that there were always two more books to look forward to reading.

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Summary: If you don't like this one, stop now
Review: I'm not going to tell you not to read _The Lord of the Rings_ just because it bored me stiff; too many people have loved it for you to take my advice instead of theirs. I _am_ going to tell you it doesn't get more interesting as it goes on. If you didn't like Part One, don't waste any more precious time on Part Two.

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Summary: Good Idea- But Way Too Detailed
Review: I began to read this book thinking that with all the praise I had heard it received it would be great, filled with action and adventure. However, the book is so detailed that it gets boring very fast. The extensive descriptions of the places that are being traveled through become work to read. The 360 something pages (I think) of this book could easily be condensed to a little over 250. Great plot and interesting at times but it ends up boring and tedious to read with all the details.

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Summary: Captivating
Review: I've read the Lord of the Rings twice, and each time, I have a hard time putting it down. I've got my son reading it now.

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Summary: The Hobbit
Review: I recommend this book to anyone that enjoyed the movie Lord of the Rings. This book takes you back and tells you in detail how Bilbo found the ring. You will laugh, you will cry, and best of all you will fall in love with the wee little ones known as Hobbits.

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Summary: Too much mundane detail makes for a boring read
Review: Obviously a creative story, but the movie is 10 times better than the book. This book moves very slow and more than half of the entire book is spent on explaining the mundane details of your surroundings. Everytime the characters in the book move from one place to another, the author has to stop the action and spend the next 3 or 4 pages telling you how many branches are on each tree and which types of leaves are on each branch. The other half of the book is filled with these long and grueling elf chants. This book lacks any real action and I wasn't able to read it for more than 15 minutes at a time without being bored to tears.

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Summary: Sorta Good, but tires me
Review: Okay, I saw the movie first, and then I bought the book. It's nice, but too detailed when you just wanna continue with the plot. Some events are not needed in the book, either.