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Summary: A World in a Book
Review: This is a special book and worth the effort to read it. Tolkien wanted it published as one long novel but the publisher split it into three. Give yourself a treat and read it a little bit at a time. The is an entire world created for you. Take advantage of it.
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Summary: #1 BOOK OF ALL!!!
Review: At first I thouht"Well wow another book to read." But after I started to read the books and the were great! I found out that I read these books to escape reality and also to be able to break rules. If you liked Harry Potter then you have no clue what you're missing. This book is totally better then Harry Potter. I mean, Harry Potter is sooo boring compared to the Lord Of The Rings set! All Harry does is walk around doing boring stuff and getting in trouble! My friend just told me that this is the best book ever.He just saw the movie. lol. He says its the BEST! "Way better than Harry Potter!" He said, any way , just read this book. You'll love it!
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Summary: You Get What You Pay For !
Review: The ONLY reason why I chose to buy this particular edition was because of the incredibly low price tag it carried for FOUR books. However, once the package arrived and I had worked my way past the first and second chapters (of the Hobbit) it became obvious WHY this particular printing had been such a steal.
For someone like me, who has read the ORIGINAL Hobbit (Unwin Publication), this edition was as close to a rip-off as one could get in the book-publishing world. Let me make a list here.1. Typographical errors 2. The RUNES of the map are not correct either. It should read, "When the Trush Knocks", instead it reads,"Hwen the Trush Knocks" 3. The ENTIRE introduction by the author, (On Runes and their history, from where I learnt to read them 15 years ago) is MISSING! I wonder what anyone who reads this publication will think of Tolkien's runic writing without the authors guiding words. Sadly, I have now lost the original Hobbit book (I lent it to a friend who lost it) so I will have to make do with the one from this boxed set. It's something. But it certainly WILL NOT PLEASE ANY FAN OF TOLKIEN. If you are a Tolkien fan, or want to enjoy the TRUE magic of the Ring, DO NOT BUY THIS BOXED SET!!! This is strictly for the casual reader who cannot tell Tolkien from Eddings! (...)
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Summary: Simply the best.
Review: I wanted to voice my opinion on this, but I don't wish to bore anyone with a long, drawn-out dialogue on a subject that many others have already given credit to. Therefore, I shall merely point out that novels that have a longevity beyond a single generation as a respected and prolific work are simply in a league of their own. This work rises to the top of that small selection, and is the standard by which ALL writing is set.
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Summary: The Hobbit and The Dwarfs Adventure To The Misty Mountains
Review: The beingging of The Hobbit is a little unintersting, but after the frist 40 pages the wild adventure fanilly begins. The hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, a wizard, Gandalf, and 12 dwarfs trol off on ponies to begin their adventure. The hobbit and the rest of the dwarfs meet trolls, spiders, wood-elfs and other magical creatures. To find out more about the book and all the gams they get in read The hobbit!
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Summary: incredible!
Review: This is the most excellent book I have ever opened. I have read various other books, including C.S. Lewis' Narnia series. They were great, but could never grasp the level of excitement, adventure, or just story, for example, than The Hobbit, and lord of the Rings series. I'm not a crazy reader, but when I picked up the hobbit, right when I got home from school, went to my room, picked it up, and picked up where I left off. I finished them both in a total of 10 days! It has an awesome adventure plot. The Hobbits and co. set out with a 'king' to go recapture the perlious land of the misty Mountains, and the long silenced 'lonely mountain,'where Smaug the dragon lives. The Lord of the Rings is perhaps more exciting, but I have yet to finish. The first two books alone were the best I've ever read. Hopefully, they were just the cakewalk, so there is more excitement more to come! So far, The evil lord sauron seeks a ring that The hobbit got (you'll find out how) and wishes to capture it and rule evil over the whole middle earth. The hobbit must now throw the Ring into the pits of Doom, where the evel ring was wrought by the evil powers of Sauron Himself!!! THERES MORE, MUCH MORE, AND ITS BETTER! SO READ THE BOOK!
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Summary: INCREBIBLE!!!!!!!
Review: These books are the most incredible, wonderful, imgainative, moving, amazing books I have read and will read in my entire life! J.R.R Tolkien is the best author and I Have been through the trilogy two times, the Hobbit and the Fellowship of the Ring again since then, all in one year! They are wonderful incredible, and if you read these and say you don't like them, well, youre nutz!
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Summary: LOTR is not for everybody, film hype notwithstanding
Review: From recent 1-2 star reviews, it appears that the backlash against LOTR is beginning. Readers are obviously sick and tired of all the hype. I can empathise with this sentiment - not everyone enjoys LOTR on their first reading, myself included. I first glimpsed this imposing tome when I was 12 years old. My violin teacher noticed that I was a "prodigious" reader, and gave me her copy of LOTR. All 3 novels, collected as one gigantic jumbo-sized paperback novel. I was overwhelmed and confused, to say the least. After that, I vowed never to read LOTR ever again. As far as I was concerned, Tolkien's fantasy was a foreign country. About 15 years later, with the LOTR hype reaching its zenith, I decided to pick up the books again. This time, I was not so intimidated. I found that the biggest problem with the book is it's flowery prose and ponderous passages. Reading Fellowship of the Ring for the first time can be a huge culture shock for the casual reader - there are long songs and poetry, references to historical incidents not directly chronicled in the novel. Tolkien DOES suceed in creating a world, but does so at the expense of alienating the casual reader. If you ever decide to buy this boxed set, I STRONGLY recommend reading "The Hobbit" first. The prose is much simpler and easier to read. There are fewer references to non-referenced historical incidents. If you can enjoy "The Hobbit", then you might want to read the rest of the novels. In conclusion, despite all the hype, LOTR is not for everyone. Reading the Christian Bible would probably be an easier chore. But for those who can adjust to Tolkien's near-biblical prose, it really is a fulfilling literary experience. Just don't expect to "dig it" on the first try. This definitely isn't a Harry Potter book.
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Summary: Ay, caramba, we gotta stop being afraid...
Review: So many people are afraid to read this book because it is too dang thick, they think the story is too complex, too childish, whatever! the book is about Frodo baggins and his friends and the Followship trying to save their world. There's also orthodox relgious people who won't read it because it deals with magic (like Harry Potter, which I never read except for the Spyder riddle), but these same people don't realize that LOTR teaches what happens when you crave for power and magic. This story teaches about also the true values of courage, friendship, and tha you have to sacrifice and risk everything to save your loved ones...
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Summary: Still the Number One Fiction
Review: I read this set 30 years ago and I still think it is tops even now that I too am a published fiction writer. Curtiss de Vedrine author - THE SECOND COMING OF AGE
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