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Summary: This book is Timeless!
Review: To the reviewer known as "Kyle," personally I have no idea as to where your coming from? Frankly, I think you should keep your review and your childish insults to yourself. If the book was not to your liking then that is your opinion. I happened to have really enjoyed this book. It seems that you don't like novels that are filled with so much life and imagination. Maybe your better off reading a comic book? Besides, if you did not like Tolkien I have a suggestion for you. You could try reading the MAHABHARATA by, Krishna Dharma. It is a well wrought epic saga that is very similar to Tolkien. However, it might be a bit too cerebral for you, but it doesn't hurt trying.
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Summary: Some people just don't have any imagination.
Review: I'm so tired of ignorant people. Apparently some idiots just don't know what an imagination is. Every day this world is becoming more and more of a sad place to live in. No one has time for anything, no one cares for anything, all I hear any more is bickering, yelling, cursing, hatred, anger, and many slews of empty uneducated comments. If a book like the Lord of the Rings is to "complex" for your brain to handle then it sounds like to me you have no grasp on imagination at all. If you to try and make sense out of every single word and compare it with reality then you should be sticking to non-fiction and quite reading fiction. It sounds like to me you're just some idiot who saw the films then decided to read the book and was upset when it wasn't up to the same standards. Also, the Hobbit was written more for children while the Lord of the Rings was written for an older crowd, so of course the Hobbit is easier to read, but it's also interesting that my 8 year old nephew read and understood the Lord of the Rings book before the films even came out. Sounds like to me your just too simple minded. As for my opinion, I wish the world could be more like the beauty that is written in Tolkien's epic. To celebrate a simple life, how grand that would be.
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Summary: A masterful work.....
Review: I cant begin to say what a great story and world Tolkien has created. These books are brilliant. As for the bad review left by a previous guy....hahahahaha...do you think anyone actually takes you serious? You should learn how to spell before you place a review...your the one who looks like and idiot...not the late great mister Tolkien.
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Summary: Aweful
Review: This series is horrible beyond all conception. Tolkien overbloats EVERYTHING to the point where it's absolutely ridiculous, and I loose tract of the plot amidst unimportant details. Quite frankly my only thought is I DON'T CARE WHO EVERYONE'S FATHER IS, IF YOU WANT ME TO KNOW THEN WRITE A PREQUEL, JUST TELL THE STORY IT IDIOTIC BRIT! I don't know how someone who wrote something as good as "The Hobbit" could produce this junk. I think what happened was he had a bunch of notes left over, and wanted to cash in by writing a sequel, so he threw all the details he had onto a shallow plot, but sense it was to complicated to be called "dumbed-down" like most money-making sequels noone could attack it. And it was so complicated people have been trying to convince others for decades that they're intellegent because they can understand this book, but since noone understands it, noone can test them to see if they really do or not. Anyway, if you want a complicated plot you can understand, read "Dune" by Frank Herbert.
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Summary: Alan Lee's illustrated edition.
Review: The problems I have with this book have nothing to do with Tolkien's work, which is brilliant, but instead deal with the physical quality of the book itself. I also have no problem with Alan Lee's illustrations, which are beautiful and inserted in the appropriate places (unlike the illustrated version of the Silmarillion). However, the page quality is average, the print face is inconsistent (dark on some pages, faint on others), and there are numerous mis-spellings, especially in the appendices. Moreover, the spine of the book that I bought is nearly worn out and I've only read it a few times. As this book is easily my favorite, I was hoping to find a high-quality edition that would last a lifetime. Unfortunately, this edition is not the one. In any case, the Alan-Lee illustrations are pretty good and worth checking out (though maybe not at this price). In contrast, I highly recommend the Alan Lee-illustrated version of "The Hobbit". Again, beautiful illustrations throughout, and the pages are thick and glossy with bold print. Excellent value on this one.
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Summary: An incredible trilogy combined into one easy-to-read volume
Review: Although I had already read the LOTR trilogy several years ago, I was thrilled to receive this one volume paperback as a gift, and I thoroughly enjoyed re-reading this epic story. Tokien has taken the classic tale of good versus evil and has turned it into a completely captivating adventure involving humility and greed, love and hate, corruption and redemption. Although you know that the good will succeed in the end (as it always does), you can't help to feel both awed and amazed as the humble Frodo overcomes incredible odds to save the beautifully wrought realm of Middle-Earth, a world that seems to actually exist beyond the pages of these books. This single volume helpfully combines not only the books themselves but also the many complex supporting resources that make up Tolkien's world--ie, maps, appendices, etc. I found it extremely useful to have all of these materials contained in one book; I enjoyed my second reading of this series more than the first party due to having access to all three books at once. This classic work has stood the test of time, and it is likely to continue entralling new readers for generations to come.
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Summary: A MUST READ!!!!!!!!!!
Review: A fantastic book(the whole edition). Some people might be bored by reading it but as the story progresses, so does the excitement. Just because it's fat and thick does'nt mean that this book is only for nerds and the mature minds. If you have'nt read it I would strongly recommend that you do so cause this is one book that once you finsh reading you're gonna be mighty glad you did so. It consists of all the different races in Middle Earth like the Wise and Majestic Elves; The sturdy dwaves ; the proud and tall men of Gondor; the "not-so-hasty-Ents" and so on. If you have seen the movies then don't think that you don't need to read the books cause the movies shows only a fraction of what takes place in the books. Each and every event is explained in detail until the reader's thirst is fully quenched. ........So what are u waiting for???????????????????..........
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Summary: The best and most complete movie tie-in version available
Review: This particular version of this truly epic masterpiece of mythology contains the corrected 1994 text (the missing ring inscription line of "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them," in THE SHADOW OF THE PAST has been restored), plus the maps of Christopher Tolkien's 1980 version have also been restored inside the hardcover's dustjacket (or on the inside covers for the paperback version). Probably the coolest movie tie-in cover yet of all the movie covers released. Very nicely done overall. Not too cumbersome to read for either the hardcover or softcover versions. The best one-volume movie tie-in edition yet released.
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Summary: Great version of a classic masterpiece
Review: A worthy copy of Tolkien's epic magnum opus. Peter Jackson's movies are near excellent (although they do change the storyline of the book, usually quite dramatically), but they still pale in comparison to the original written words (of course). If you plan on buying the complete works in a one-edition copy, this is it.
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Summary: I love it
Review: Wow, having this leather bound copy of the greatest story ever told is just simply amazing. Of course, in order to understand The Lord Of The Rings, you have to read The Hobbit, which is good in its own right, but The Hobbit is just the prelude to one of the greatest triology ever written.
What comes second? Stephen King's The Dark Tower series, although they something in common, but I am talking about this volume, and its great from beginning to end.
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