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Summary: An epic journey.
Review: This is without a doubt the best book I've read ever, and really, it is outstanding. It has a style and a world that has been thought of to great length - giving it backgroud and atmosphere. Also you can tell that it took Tolkien years to write this massive book in the way it changes style after one third of the first book. It's about good versus evil in pure form, and it has a nice heroic air. Some might find it too long - some even boring, but I myself think it's a marvelous time in a world I wouldn't mind being in.
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Summary: The Lord of the Rings
Review: desearia poder adquirir la coleccion del señor de los anillos en español
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Summary: A new classic
Review: Looking over the many reviews of this epic you see a great many superlatives. While I wont go so far as to say "the greatest book ever written" (having not yet read every book.) LOTR remains one of my favorites. Few writers have ever been able to totaly immerse the reader as Tolkien has. Were it not for the length of the book, I would predict it to be taught in the English Literature classes of the future alongside Beowulf, Shakespear and Swift. While still in the realm of pop-literature, it also transcends it. The author has a natural ability to develop the fictional world to the point that it seems less like fiction and more like actual history. The characters are most highly developed as well. The dialog is oftentimes melodramatic but in the context of the story it might seem odd if it were not so. I hope all who read this book enjoy as much as I have.
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Summary: I can't imagine what the fantasy genre would be without it!
Review: What is Rome without Caesar, oceans without water, Fantasy without LOTR? I've heard critisim directed at Tolkien's work that has stung my ears. The way Tolkien pulled off this masterpiece is absolutly dazzling. The subtle, belivable diversity of races and characters that seems, to the simpleton reader merely a story, then this idiot calls it to slow and to hard(awww) and tells us we're just exagerating. While other people call it escapist, and wishfull thinking. I'll ask you this, would you like to slave at a cubicle to no ends and then drive home through smog stuffed tree-sripped lands to your clone home and postage stamp garden, or travel in company with the companions of the ring, all the while witnessing the creation of legend in a world as convincing as our own. I first read LOTR in 3rd and 4th grade, but did'nt wholly understand the plot, so now i've come back to it at 12 and the full extension of the genius poured into it now hits me like a dwarven forge hammer. The cliff hangers are well placed and leave you rushing through the next chapter to find out what happens where the plot on that side of the story commences. If you hav'nt read LOTR then you havn't lived. I have to admire Tolkien for all the effort that he put into creating his legend, receiving endless critisism from his fellow scholers, the years of writing, some in WWII listening to the moans of wounded soldiers at Oxford. Wow.
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Summary: Of the millenial editon...
Review: These books are an (aging) classic. Regarding the hardcover boxed edition: A very pleasing form. By splitting each text into a couple of small, identical hardcovers, totalling 6 volumes (plus 1 appendix), the series is presented in an easy to read and aesthetically pleasing manner. No goofy fantasy art, each text a manageable 200 pages or so, and very strong cover art. I'd not read the books in many years, but found this edition irrisistible.
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Summary: Lord of the Rings--Millennium Edition
Review: First: Amazon's rating method--i.e, that all editions of the same work are included under one rating thread--is useless. This Millennium edition is a rip-off--cheaply bound, printed on cheap paper, small print (paperback-like), no illustrations--DON'T buy it--buy one of the well-establishhed, illustrated hardcover editions. Tolkien's work itself, of course, rates all the stars there are.
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Summary: Charming!
Review: It's all about these dear little people with furry feet called hobbits who run around having scary adventures and getting into all kinds of scrapes. Highly recommended!
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Summary: Words only begin to describe the magnitude of this epic
Review: The Lord of the Rings is a novel that should not be described to someone, instead it should be read by everyone. Never before has a novel like this gripped me with surging power. It doesn't feel like a fantasy, the characters feel real and three dimensional. The amount of detail in the paragraghs are amazing. Tolkien was very creative in presenting the novel with a complete history of Middle-Earth, especially of the Third Age described in the Appendices. I would tell Tolkien and fantasy skeptics to just go and read it, and have their bias washed away. The novel has everything that makes for great storytelling. DON'T WAIT FOR THE MOVIES! Three movies aren't going to cover the detail and the history that sixty-two chapters and five appendices present. Of course, anyone who has read LOTR will want to see the movies, me included, to see Middle-Earth come to life. However, the result could be in disapointment, be it because the story may get mangled, or the visuals aren't up to par with a person's imagination. I hope Peter Jackson succeeds in a noble effort. I urge everyone to read this classic, fantasy fan or not. Hell, book fan or not! However, to get the full grasp on LOTR, please read the Hobbit before you read this one. The Hobbit gives excellent background, and though shorter and lighter in tone, it is an excellent book. It's what motivated me to read LOTR.
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Summary: You'll never need to read another fantasy book again.
Review: I know nothing comparable to it, except perhaps Frank Herbert's Dune and Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld saga. I first read it at the age of ten, and I'm now sixteen, and I've read it nineteen times. The creative genius that is Tolkien shines forth in all its glory in The Lord of the Rings, and it is hard to imagine a book of such immense scope and wonder-inducing imagery was created by one man, in little over half a century.Read it, then.
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Summary: My all time favorite book
Review: This book will live long in the memory for me as the most engrossing story of its kind. This is an epic tale about a Hobbit who has come to own one of the three rings of power. He must now travel right to the heart of the most dangerous place(s) to cast the ring into a volcano hot enough to destroy the ring. However, things get complicated when it transpires that usage of the ring allows the ring to gain control over its owner. Now our young hero must battle not just against the most evil of creatures and men but also against his own self in a bid to destroy the ring. The most fantastic fantasy ever written!
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