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Summary: Makes a great gift
Review: One of the best gifts I have ever received. The Map of Middle Earth in the back is worth checking out!
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Summary: Not the new Iliad !
Review: This is how i found L.O.R after completing it: First the Fellowship of the Ring is the most boring book of the three and i even must say that it had nearly succeded it turning me away from completing the rest,The Two Towers is the best and the most interesting book due to it's very clever writing style(something rare for the author!),the third book is a bit of the first and the second (that's intersting in the fist half and then bouring in the second!).but overall i think you'll enjoy the book .
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Summary: the big red book
Review: Let me start off with this: If you don't like the Lord of the Rings, you probobly never actually read it and are somehow Lord of the Rings prejudice. The format of this book only adds to Tolkien's already astounding masterpeice. The red, leather-bound book with a matching case looks like you pulled it off of a shelf in the hobbit hole of Bag End. It has suprisingly durable gold writing and designs and a large fold out map in the back. It has all of the back ground reading and appendixes you could ever hope for, including general history, family trees, races, places, some hobbit-lore, and a very thorough index. I have fond memories of reading this book and I will have more as I will soon read it again. 1215 pages of happieness, wonder, and, of course, hobbits. A MUST read for anyone with an imagination. I reccomend reading the prelude to this book, the Hobbit, first. Happy shopping
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Summary: A breakthrouer, and nothing more
Review: "Lord of the Rings" had made a breakthrough, it was the first in a long line of Fantasy books. When you come to read this book, you can't ignore its reputation as "The Best Fantasy Book". However, I disagree. The idea is great, but the book is too long and have many exhausting parts, it is not a fun and floating reading, and I often found myself forcing me to keep on reading, just because of the Reputation. It's a must in every bookshelf, but i'm affraid that it'll stay unmoved on my private bookshelf. It is the first, and for that it disorves its honor, but it is surely not the best.
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Summary: A magnificent work
Review: I have read the Lord of the Rings over and over and never get tired of it. This is the epic adventure story of a young hobbit, Frodo, who is given the task of destroying an evil ring that, if taken by the enemy, would destroy all of Middle-Earth. Tolkien weaves the story vividly and it enchants the reader making them feal like they actually are in Middle-Earth. You get to know the fellowship and follow them in their paths. The wise Gandalf, the loyal Sam, the stubborn Gimli, the Brave Frodo, the spry hobbits: Merry and Pippin and many other marvolous charictors are alive in the pages of this book. The Lord of the Rings will surely delight any fantasy lover and make you beg for more.The movie is wonderful but it can not compair to the work of Tolkien, read this book and you will not regret it!
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Summary: One that will last forever!
Review: An amazing tale of the small and insignifigant defeating the all powerful. True epic and grandious in its development. One of the most influencial books of the 20 century if not of all time. The descriptions that Tolkien uses to bring his world to life are better than I have ever read and I have read a lot. For anyone and everyone to enjoy.
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Summary: One spectacular novel
Review: Just to start off, ANYONE who would rate this book under a five is either not a very comprehensive reader or has no apprectiation for great literature. The Lord of the Rings is a novel written on more levels than a skyscraper, which makes it enjoyable for a large range of readers. On the most basic and understandable level, it is a story about a Hobbit who is unexpectedly thrust into the ownership of a magic ring. But this isn't just any magic ring, but rather the one ring created by Sauron, the lord of darkness, to control all of Middle earth. Frodo is left wth no choice except to take the ring directly into te heart of Mordor, the land of darkness, to throw the ring into Mount Doom, where the ring was created, and the only place it can be destroyed. Many people who are not well read may assume this to be the only level the story is written on, but I would STRONGLY suggest this book to anyone who is interested in reading the most ingenius piece of work ever written.
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Summary: It's a nicely bound edition
Review: First off, I am not about to attempt to review the content of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings Trilogy - this has been done hundreds of times by professional book reviewers and thousands of times over by readers and fans.Instead, I will report what makes THIS PARTICULAR edition different than the several dozen other editions available. In truth, not much. It has a nice leather-ish (NOT leather, mind you, just leather-ish) cover, and a nice leather-ish slipcase. It has some graphics from the story badly misplaced (the runes from the enterance to Moria badly mangled to look like cover hinges) on the cover in silver leaf. It's red (those familiar with the Hobbit stories would know that any IMPORTANT book is bound in red). The paper is higher quality than a paperback but is far from top grade rag paper. In has a map glued in the back which is bigger and nicer than any of the maps in any of the paperback editions I've seen. It contains the exact same text, including all appendices as the low cost paperbacks, no more, no less. If you want a nice red leather-ish book for the bookcase, this is as good as any.
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Summary: What To Say That Hasn't Been Said Already?
Review: Nothing that I can think of. So I'll simply quote part of Edward Wagenknecht's review of The Two Towers (the second part of the novel) for the Chicago Tribune: "To sum it all up, here is a wonderful story, set in a world which paralyzes the imagination, and told in magnificent prose. What more can an author give?" What indeed?
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Summary: the best i ever red
Review: a wonderful book. it can't get any better.
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