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Summary: The best
Review: These books are, to me, complete and perfect entertainment. They define genres in Literature and in story-telling. (Yes, I'm making a distinction here). Everything good you've heard about the trilogy is probably true.
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Summary: My favorite series - ruined by Houghton Mifflin Co.
Review: The 'Collector's Edition' hardbound leatherette version is not worth buying. I've returned two copies to local bookstores because of incomplete printing. The pages look like they were printed on a half-broken laser printer low on toner. The lack of attention to detail in making the plates for this version shocks me. Please look at this book before you buy it. Seriously - my thrice-read paperback versions look better. The cover is great, though.
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Summary: IT IS THE MOST FASCINATING BOOK I EVER HAD
Review: The whole story is an amazing creation by the master of the subject J.R.R.Tolkien.The adventures that Frodo has,the way he escapes with his fellowship and the bravery of Aragorn,Legolas and Boromir promise a fantastic continue after the first book.In the second book the agony and the action are in maximum grade.You feel like you are with Meri,Pipin and the Eds marching to conquer Orthanc.But also you participate in Frodo's journey through the dark,like being Samwaiz.In the third book Aragorn shows his majesty and Frodo finishes his mission after tremendous difficulties while "The Captains of the West" trying in vein to help him against the black majesty of Soron.I just love this story!
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Summary: One of the greatest books of all time
Review: I have read "The Lord of the Rings" over 20 times since 1973. I have a Master's degree in English and have read many great works of literature, but nothing else that I have read has woven quite such a spell as Prof. Tolkien's masterpiece. This book will touch your soul. It is a GREAT work of art!
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Summary: What about this book?
Review: Sorry, I think I'm unable to understand what is so great with this book. I began to read this book with very large expections and was so dissapointed. It tells nothing it doesn't wakes any sort of feelings in the reader. It is something you can read, but nothing more. I admit that Tolkien was the first author to write this, the fight of good against evil, but sometimes this is not enough. Anybody out there saying Tolkien can write? Me not. His charakters are plain, they are never facing any kind of decicion. There is either good or evil, light or darkness, but nothing in between. AND he missed the end. After the coronation of Aragorn the book is over, but Tolkien keeps telling something. The Lord of the Rings is something like a legend and its creation was "good" but its fame is larger than the truth.
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Summary: One-volume boxed collector's edition full of broken type
Review: Yes, I am a Tolkien fan. So much so that my family gave me the Lord of the Rings in the collectors edition, a box containing the three volumes bound together. I must advise against this edition. Although the cover is lovely, with gilt lettering and a faux leather cover, and although the book has black type and red page headings on it's thick smooth paper, I say don't buy it. There is no justifying a "Collector's Edition" with broken type on every page. If broken-type is not the correct term, forgive me. Only be aware that this edition has incompletely printed letters on seemingly every page. In a paperback edition, or if the broken type was rare, I wouldn't comment, but in a "collector's edition," one should get a little more care in the presentation of the text.
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Summary: A Beautiful and Harrowing Journey
Review: I just finished reading The Lord of the Rings again. Simply wonderful. This is an amazing piece of literature that I would hope everyone who can read, will read. The prose and structure of this work are absolutely solid. Professor Tolkien was a very skilled author technically. Yet there is so much more here than technical perfection. There is the amazing world that he builds for us with his words. The attention which is payed to the landscape is awe inspiring. He truly envisions for us a real three dimensional continent through his writing. The characters he introduces us to are just as solid and true. From the quiet and philosophical Frodo and the faithful and down to earth Samwise to the twisted and pitiful Gollum these characters ring true. The story is epic and it never falters once as it winds it's way along the paths of middle earth. What impressed me the most during this reading was the incredible depth that Tolkien instilled in all of his creations. Whether it was a wandering king biding his time to claim his throne, a lush forest of gold and light, or song that told of a beautiful and bitter romance, it was solidly constructed and set into place in the story. There is never a time in the tale that we are asked to simply accept anything suddenly that is thrust on us, there are no plot loopholes. At the core of this epic tale is a very tough and important message. Don't become enslaved by your comforts and your power this story says. Don't hold so tightly to a thing that gives you joy that you kill the object, the joy and yourself. Most cling to the past and the memory of a pleasure that once was, but lives no more, out of fear of stepping into the next moment where that joy may or may not exist. "The road goes ever on," sing Bilbo and Frodo. And so must we all if we are truly to live. Please take the time to read this book. It will enrich your life.
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Summary: A jewel of high price, but a jewel with flaws
Review: Let's face it: This is a classic. It is a compendious, dazzling testimony to the power of the imagination. It's hard to think of any other imaginary world, before or after Tolkien, which exhibits such beauty and richness. The sense of irreversible loss which pervades this beauty and richness produces a high level of convincing pathos. Not that the figment of 'literary history' is as important as individual books of literature, but its place in the history of fantasy literature is assured. Few works of fantasy since it stand untouched by its shadow, and I daresay none inspires such passion and loving regard in its readership. I would even go so far as to say Tolkien has outdone more than a handful of the medieval and post-medieval romances which were his models. But I have to be honest: there are writers with greater depth than Tolkien. There are writers whose epic vision encompasses more than Tolkien. Tolkien's style is certainly a better modern attempt to reproduce the feel of medieval prose than the Victorian patois ever was, but in style as well as substance, too much has changed since the 14th century. This isn't chronological snobbery; it's an acknowledgment of the facts. Tolkien's books were the mainstay of my childhood and adolescence and were still primary in my early college years. But I can't read him now as I read him then. Middle-earth has receded somewhat, become more provincial. The high moments do not come as often. Among fantasy fiction it certainly merits five stars. I recommend it enough to new readers to give it five stars for their sake. But set against the classics of the world, in which the true five-star books appear but rarely, I can only give it four stars (four and a half, perhaps). I consider this a great "transitional" work, between the classic fables for children and the great books meant for adults. Be prepared, then, and understand that perhaps this ring should also bear that famous inscription of another, "This too shall pass."
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Summary: I LOVE THIS BOOK
Review: I love this book, and I'm still in Middle School. I think this is on the top three of the greatest books of all time. It is heartbreaking, heartwarming, and will keep you on the edje of your seat, or your desk, or wherever you may be. Tolkien does a magnificent job on creating characters, middle-earth, and the whole history which could only been created by pure genius.I think I really love this book because I was subjected to too much Middle-Earth when I was little. I loved the movie-cartoon "the hobbit" and at that time my brother and dad had read the book and I remember them talking about Galadriel having one of the elven-rings. That was when I was about four, and When I was in fifth grade I finally read the hobbit. Now I'm on the last chapter of "Return of the king", And I find the complex plot, the many tear-choking deaths and near-deaths, and the sheer coolness of it is just awesome. Hey, I found out that there is a poll on the internet on the greatest book of the 20th century. So far, Green eggs and ham is winning over Lord of the rings! Let's turn that around!
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Summary: Combinaton of the best story and the best art to go along w\
Review: Alan Lee(and J.Howe) is the best illustator of LOTR and it helps to see on paper what has been in my head every time i read it.
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