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Summary: Richly Detailed Fantasy
Review: LoTR is one of those thick novels whose paperback version has one great advantage over the hardcover - it's less bulky. (It's also a lot cheaper but that's another issue.) Also, it's easier to navigate the book using the index at the back if you use a paperback. I've found it useful to dip in and out of the text with the help of the index. Not many novels have an index and this one happens to have one, thus making the paperback very convenient.Don't bother buying the three-separate-books version unless you don't find it necessary to use the index. If you use the index a lot, three separate books will drive you nuts. Tolkien's own complaint about the book is that it's too short (see foreword to the second edition). I agree. No doubt the story would have been far more exciting with twice the length and three times the number of characters. A longer book perhaps would have made the appearances of dragons possible. There are no dragons in this story, as it stands. (Dragons do exist in Tolkien's mythology, but you'll only find them in The Silmarillion and The Hobbit.) The Silmarillion suffers from having too many characters and from being too short a book. LoTR suffers from having too few characters and also from being too short. Combining the two into one book would have been a splendid idea. Perhaps that's why Tolkien was so unhappy about not being able to publish both books together. The trouble was that he kept making changes to The Silmarillion - he could not settle down to any version. He kept changing his mind. If alive today, Tolkien would still be revising his all his books. But then we might have had another full-length sequel (or prequel) to LoTR! A pity! As far as messages to "take home", I don't know for sure. Tolkien did not intend his book to be a fable. But I suppose Tolkien wants to tell us that under certain circumstances even very insignificant people (e.g., the hobbits) can do extraordinary things, and that even your enemy (e.g., Gollum) can change your fate for the better. In other words, life is full of surprises.
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Summary: Masterpiece
Review: I'm only giving it four stars because of it's massive length lol.Any ways always a treauser to read and to share in your mind and heart.
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Summary: The Only Copy You Will Need!
Review: If you're like me and finally decided it was time to digest the complete saga of The Lord of the Rings, then this is the edition you'll want. Sure it 1137 pages long, slightly heavier than most paperbacks and requires its own specialized set of appendices to fully understand what is going on, but that's what makes it great! Actually, as paperbacks go this edition is well thought out. The best feature is, of course, that all the six books plus appendices are present under one cover. Many readers have been led to believe that The Lord of the Rings is a trilogy, when in actuality it is not. The type chosen for this edition is easy on the eyes, which is good considering the size of the volume. Another great feature is the appendices, which include family trees, calendars, pronunciation guides, plus indexes to songs and verses, persons, beasts and monsters, places and things. And then there are the maps. If you're ready to finally take this masterpiece, I can't think of a better edition to use. Enjoy!
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Summary: The Lord of the Rings
Review: I liked the book because there is magic in it.Also that they are always being followed and they never know if they will make it there or not.It is always exciting because you dont know what will happen next. I think that the best part of the book is when they are in the mines of moria and Sam dropped the rock onto the well and the orcs found them.Also when Gandalf breaks th bridge so that the barlog falls but with the last swing of his whip he caught Gandalf by the legs and pulled him down with him.Then the fellowship had to find hope in themselfs to press on and keep the ring safe. I think I could see the mines of moria in my mind the best because J.R.R. Tolken did such a good job in describing it to me I could really see it in my mind.I could also see the expressions of their faces in my mind after Gandalf got killed in the mines of moria.
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Summary: ''Lord of the rings''
Review: I like this book because it is exciting,thay fight all types of creatures.It seamed like you were in the Book/movie,like reel life.I relly liked this book because it has adventure.
When thay fight the goblins thay use any thang thay could find.
The ring will be destroid, thay are detormined.Thay will beat the king.
I thank the author did a vary good job making the carcters & creatures. the setting was good also, like The Mines of morea & The forbidden forest.This is a wary good book.
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Summary: The best book ever written?
Review: Is this best story ever told? Without a doubt. Certainly. Definetly. You get the idea. A heroic romance? Historical genius? Fantasy classic? Whaterver genre you place Lord Of The Rings in, it is sure to beat all the others in that category. Such an intricate and complex world has never before been created. The perilous journey of frodo and sam is but a small thread in the tapestry of middle earth. How many books have i read? At the tender age of 15 i have read countless numbers, and none of them hold a torch to the works of tolkien. What else is there to say? Except for two words. BUY IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: The Best Book Ever!
Review: The Lord Of The Rings is a fantasy book that everyone should read. Middle-earth seems as if it were a real world. This is a book that has a war of good against evil. It is much like the bible. The book , The Lord Of The Rings By J.R.R. Tolkien , should be bought and read by everyone.
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Summary: "Book of the milleneum" a true statement
Review: The collecters adition of the lord of the rings is a great purches.The lord of the rings is a great book by itself in soft cover adition but the leather collecters adition makes is even better.The whole trilogy in one binding is the way tolkien intended the lord of the rings to be and he was right! This book is great i would not change a thing!
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Summary: the Lord of the rings is great
Review: The Lord of the rings is without a doubt the best book i have ever read. the film is a credit to the book and the book is brilliant. each time you read it you pick up things you didn't notice the time before.I think that this book is undoubtedly one of the best ever written and i really like tolkeins style of writing and portrail of the charadcters!
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Summary: One Book to Rule Them All (yeah, it's corny, but true)
Review: This is unquestionably THE best version of Lord of the Rings for serious fans. It's beautifully bound with golden elvish script embossed on the red leather, and the whole thing creates the feeling that you're reading the actual compilation of Bilbo, Frodo, and Sam. One of the book's most valuable features is it's lack of pictures -- other than diagrams of runes and symbols used upon the door of Moria and such -- allowing the readers to formulate their own imagery. Moreover, this edition is published as the story was meant to be read: with all three "books" in one (many uneducated folk scorned the 2001 movie's unsatisfying ending, which was meant to be merely a cliff-hanger leading into the immediately ensuing chapter). True, the size may render it unwieldy for younger fans (PLEASE take great care), but part of the treasure of this edition is its textile feel and weight, its "sprawl out in front of the fireplace" nature, for this is not a magazine to skim but a treasure trove to ponder and study. It contains a huge fold-out map with comprehensive place-names, as well as family trees and guides for translating the various runic languages. Another great feature is the archive of appendices proffering tidbits on everything from the fall of Numenor to the future of Aragorn and Arwen together, allowing immediate references for every occasion that an item piques your interest. Don't underestimate the value of the index, either, for help in looking up individual songs and riddles or creatures and people. As much as I love reading, this particular book has remained my most cherished posession since its introduction to our family 20 years ago. Together with the Collector's Edition of The Hobbit and BBC's radio broadcast performace on CD, I'm content to share with my family for generations to come the wealth of pleasure to be derived from this greatest of classics.
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