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Summary: Lord of the Novels
Review: An epic drama. A historic saga. Bible of all novels. Book of the Millenium.A hypnotising read. A book that takes you away from fairyland, to middle earth, a journey with elves, dwarves, wizards, hobbits and men. Need to say anymore?
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Summary: BEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN
Review: Dont compare this to the hobbit becaus there is no compitition
This hs to be the best book i have ever read in my entire life. the only book that i spent all day reading is this book. tho there is a little to much description at times and there are tough words and long names andis a exremly long book it is still the greatest book ever written. there are none like it so if you want the experianc GET THIS BOOK
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Summary: Absolutely Definitive World of Fantasy
Review: No fantasy writer or reader alike is unfamiliar with the stories of Middle-Earth and Tolkien's great characters, at least to the extent of Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf the White/Grey, and the Men of Numenor. Any LOTR fanatic can assure you that if you haven't picked up at least the Hobbit as a child, or the first installment of LOTR; Fellowship of the Ring, you will be surprised how strongly you fall into the world of fantasy and crave to read more. I strongly guarantee that anyone reading this edition will want to read more tales of Middle-Earth, after all, nobody's born a Tolkien fan, and I would definitely bet most got started with this series.
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Summary: Plus Maps and Runes
Review: The Lord of the Rings is the most rereadably ripping yarn of the 20th century. No modern literary fiction has been nearly so devotedly reread by its admirers.To foreshorten, hobbits are not just rabbits or even leprechauns: hobbits are Pycts (evidently migrant pygmies, who picked Britain out of all the world, before even the Celts came, following whom Romans, Saxons and Normans became Britons too). Tolkien's interlaced narrative is as Dickensian as it is medieval, and hobbits are Dickensian ambassadors to Valhalla. Like all of Tolkien's fictions, The Lord of the Rings is a saga: the story of a family's place in the history of the world. Frodo and Sam, master and servant, become family. With reference presumably to Malory's Arthur, Tolkien termed The Lord of the Rings a Romance. The point being that, unlike almost all other longer modern prose fictions, The Lord of the Rings is not a novel. Nor is it a fanciful gloss of medieval society, but rather of medieval literature per se. There are female characters in The Lord of the Rings, and the journeys of the Fellowship are great nature hikes. The Lord of the Rings has been translated into many languages. There are 1100+ lines of verse in the Old and Middle English alliterative meters, the long, common and half ballad measures and two neoClassical meters, the leonine hexameter and the English fourteener; plus an invented-language group in pastiches of metrical devices from various Celtic, Germanic and Latinate traditions. There is a near-hiatus of verse in volume two after its first hundred pages, and volume three's reprise of all prior metrical modalities features the Old English meter prominently. There are also Tolkien's own runes and his son's map. To the Bible belt school of Tolkien criticism I should recommend Thucydides' History of the Pelloponesian War, in which I count a few hundred parallels. The Lord of the Rings is neither childish nor humorless: it's preChristianitively stern. I look forward to a full-length animation with landscapes in the manner of Ted Nasmith and hobbits in that of Darrell Sweet, in which Sam will have a Liverpool accent.
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Summary: How can you not read it?
Review: It is the ONLY book that I read every 4 or 5 years, since 1977. It is a poem, a new and old world history, a world as it should be, the good prevailing as it should. Read it! And if you did allready, do it again!!!
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Summary: Sadness at the end
Review: "In this year on March 1st came at last the Passing of King Elessar (Aragorn). It is said that the beds of Meriadoc and Peregrin were set beside the bed of the great king. Then Legolas built a grey ship in Ithilien, and sailed down Anduin and so over Sea; and with him, it is said, went Gimli the Dwarf. And when that ship passed an end was come in Middle-earth of the Fellowship of the Ring." I have read the trilogy three times at three different points in my life. Every time, at the end I am sad as I think I will never open the pages of another book quite so important or affecting. I like the movies but I hope their prominence doesn't diminish what Tolkien accomplished in words on the page. For anyone who has yet to read the appendices, I would encourage you to do so, for the ending of the book is not the ending of the story and the above passage finally brings it to conclusion. I am always so sad and so enriched by the story and mythology for our age. The best ever. Maybe it's just me. Maybe it is just really the finest book every written.
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Summary: 5 Stars for the book under the cover, 4 for the edition....
Review: ....under the publisher;s constraints, in the land of Houghton-Mifflin, where the profits lie. Most people think this superb book, which is popularly abbreviated LOTR, pronounced "Loater", is pretty darn good, a Jungian archetype in its own right. Some people criticize the slow development, and the various included songs and poetry as being archaic, and the journey through the marshes as being depressing, but they miss part of the point - this is literature influenced and honoring older styles. The MTV generation should consider learning to slow down and savour things. I cannot contribute anything particularly original to a review of this book as a literary work. However - on the edition: One caution: The boxed red-leather bound collector's edition, (echoing the fictional "Red Book of Westmarch", the mythical preserved source of the story) has one jarring flaw. It lacks the much enlarged, detailed map, showing Gondor, Rohan, and western Mordor, normally found in the third volume (The Return of the King, ROTK) in the individual-volume editions. That map greatly aids readers in following of the events of ROTK, and it is worth one's while to have a regular hardback or paperback edition handy in order to have access to this map.
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Summary: Lord of the Rings
Review: This book is probably one of the best of all time. It is the first stepping stone for all the fanstasy novels written today. J.R.R. Tolkien created a world very much our own, though masked with many fictional things,and characters. He created vivid realm with characters that the mass public could relate to. The ring of power signifies mankind's own self corruption and destruction. While the ringbearer signifies man's own salvation. Frodo (the ringbearer)embarks on an epic journey to desttroy the One Ring, which he recieved, to save Middle Earth. During his adventurous voyage, had to overcome many hard-impossible obstacle to keep the ring from the Dark Lord Sauron and destroy evil (the one ring), once and for all. I highly recommend this book to those who love fiction and understand the problems in our world.
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Summary: Lord Of The Rings
Review: No book on the face of this earth is even worthy of comparison to the greatist litterary work of this century, "The Loard Of The Rings".
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Summary: The Greatest Joys of the Lord of the Rings
Review: So much has been written on Tolkien's grand saga (particularly since Peter Jackson has brought it to the forefront pop culture) that I fear I have little to add. Yet I must mention some of the greatest joys I found in Tolkien's masterpiece. First, though The Lord of the Rings is a wonderfully original creation and a fully formed world, I am repeatedly struck and entertained by how Tolkien weaves in themes from other works. Those familiar with the Edda and Wagner's Ring cycle will be pleasantly surprised how Tolkien takes old material and reweaves it into something appealing and new. Also, Tolkien reworks a lot of George MacDonald's ideas (the greatness of courage, the self-destructiveness of evil, and the wisdom of innocence) into a new, more complex setting. The theme that I love most from The Lord of the Rings is that truth overcomes knowledge. Truth keeps knowledge guessing and uninformed. This is seen in the misplays of both Saruman and Sauron. Most importantly, this is a tale that [stinks] the reader in and will not let them go...even after it ends.
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