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Summary: I loved this book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I am 13& live in Central PA. This book was,in my oppinion, EXCELLENT! Some might not like it because it gives alot of very lengthy descriptions. The book is a continuation of 'The Hobbit'. In it Frodo Baggins, Bilbo's nephew, becomes the bearer of the ring. Gandalf the Grey finds out this ring is known as THE RING, and that the Dark Lord, who forged it& then lost it, wisshes to have it back. Together with the help of some unlikely companions destroy the ring and set the world right. I reccomend this book to anyone who has read, and liked 'The Hobbit'
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Summary: Possibly the greatest book ever written
Review: I have to say, possibly the greatst book ever written. Its not just a book but an epic history and if you have read the mahabharata( an Indian epic), you'll know what i mean. The book's great in itself but the history Tolkien creates behind it is what is brilliant. I haven't read any other fantasy books unless you count these religious books like the bible, koran and the gita as fantasy but if this is how fantasy is written, just tell me the list of books to read.
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: If you haven't read this book, you're missing something big
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Summary: There is no middle-ground in middle-earth...
Review: It's a love or hate thing.Some readers will happily immerse themselves in the painstakingly constructed mythology, study the maps and family trees, pore through ancillary literature - in short, comprehend Tolkein's massive ambition, and hold him in highest esteem for realizing it so fully. Others will give up early on, finding it slow, silly and superfluous, proclaiming that anyone sad enough to like that sort of thing should really get out more often. Perhaps I should get out more often.
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Summary: Hard work but worth it
Review: I can understand people not liking this series It is at times too slow and filled with seemingly pointless descriptions, I remember in particular a chapter called "The stairs of Cirith Ungol" (Or some such) began with several pages of description which I had to make several attempts to battle through. The series has lengthy moderately enjoyable sections interspersed with some high action. If I stopped reading the series halfway through the final book I would have rated it 2 1/2 - 3 stars, but the ending is so powerful and moving that it just makes you glad you read the whole thing and looking back you feel like you were there on the whole journey with them. Unless you are finding this mindwitheringly dull (as some do) persist to the end. It will be worth it.
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Summary: The story all other fantasy writers try to imitate
Review: I first read this book when I was 15. As soon as I finished, I started at the beginning again - I couldn't bear to stop living in Middle-Earth. Tolkien not only invents a plot and characters, he invents whole cultures with separate histories and languages. It took him years to write, and you can tell. This is no book that some hack writer slapped out in a couple of months. Every other fantasy writer since then has tried - and failed - to live up to this incredible standard. I am now 47 and read the trilogy again every year. I still fall in love with it every time and hate to close the book at the end. Tolkien's use of language is a delight, and the book still surprises me each time, I find something I missed before. Be sure to read the appendices at the end to find out what happened to all the Fellowship in years after.
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Summary: The best novel ever!
Review: Besides the Bible, this the best book ever to be written. Tolkien is a master of his art, and he draws everyone into this mythical realm. Once a person is there, they never want to leave!
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Summary: Sorry but Blah
Review: It may be my age but I unfortunatly found this to be one of the most boring books I have ever laid my eyes on. I have read many other great fantasy authors i.e. Feist, Jordan and McCaffrey but I read this book and thought I was going to be absolutly amazed at how good it was supposedly according to almost all of the people who reviewed it. I dragged myself through two of the books in this trilogy and I will never again pick up another Tolkien book.
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Summary: I agree: ten stars.
Review: I'll read it again, and again, and again, in one language and in another. Life gets a new heroic point of view. This book is inspiration for art, for friendship, for all life. A masterpiece. The first chapters could be better (a little bit faster), but the whole book is excellent: don't give up in the first 50 pages, just keep reading. But don't read only this, the world is big, and there are many authors, from Shakespeare to Cervantes, from Borges to Ende, Chesterton, Tolstoi. Tolkien is not in these cheap fantasy author's level. Keep it in mind.
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Summary: A timeless classic, appealing to everyone regardless of age
Review: J.R.R Tolkien has produced one of the best novels of all time. Not only did he create a story, he created a whole dynasty. Never again will such a book be written.
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