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Summary: Unbeatable-TheLordOfTheRings
Review: They say Harry Potter's a great fantasy hero story, which it is, and better, but its exciting, twisted plot and gripping climaxes are nothing to that of JRR Tolkien's The Lord of The Rings.
The setting is Middle-Earth, told with flawless, meaningful detail that brings you to live in it forever. Cunning spies, royalty, starved, maddened creatures and normal people take you through journey, weariness, war, vigorous fighting, victory, desperation, and bittersweet endings. It's got something for everyone - there's peace-loving Hobbits (peace-makers), wicked traitor-advisors (politicians?), people dressed all in black who like to sniff, rangers (Dunedain) who have gotten to know their land (tourists), and you'll even meet Denethor (a suicidal pyromaniac).
The beginning might take a long time to actually begin, but your patience will be wholly rewarded. They got so exciting that I literally couldn't bear to part with it - I read for about 5 hours non-stop.
So come on, dig your faces into The Lord Of The Rings and read your eyes out. Middle Earth is large enough for all of us.
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Summary: Best works done
Review: Take some time and really digest the story, locations and characters.
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Summary: It's a good Fantasy for the little kids
Review: Hobbit is the 1st book I read from the author J.R.R TOLKIEN. I liked this book because of the words he used to express what he was sayin. I think that everyone should read this book. I choosed to give 5 stars due to it's creativity & the imaginary thoughts of the author. I consider him as the best selling novels un the fantasy world. I recommend everone to read the book hobbit & grade the stars.
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Summary: The Bleak Shore the Gray Havens Glamdring & The RING
Review: Nine Rings for Mortal Men Doomed to Die. Death, Greed, the Lust for Power and love of Evil, and the ephemeral Love between to comrades in arms, the Tragic hero whose hubris drives him to take the RING, and the contentment of gardening and fine jam and hearth fire feasts with friends. All these things are found in JRR's masterwork, the depression that came over me from the finality of them can only be comparable to the finality of the last Grey Mouser and Fafrd novel written, when I knew old Fritz Lieber was dead. The RING the Power in it is the force of domination, for a part of the Dark Lord himself was forged into its very circlet. We never actually meet the Dark Lord, he is much like the Unknown Dark Beaker People Gods who's Dark Gaze Crushes and qualms all it focuses on. To be honest, I do rather dislike the main protagonist Frodo, he is a bit of a simpleton without much character depth. Bilbo seemed more real to me, but perhaps that is due to my own fondness of pancakes and rocking chairs. Boromir is perhaps the most interesting character in the book, but unfortunately he is cowardly slayed by missile using Orcs. Such is the way even as in Outriemer. Don Quixote said it best in his speech at the dinner table; how cowards use missile weapons, churlishly taking the most brilliant of gallant lives, while they run frightened from their infernal projectile throwing weapons. I would have thought Tolkien would of let a true hero live on, but we do at least have the two brothers of war Legolas and Gimil.
As for the great and surpassingly beautiful Creature, known as Smaug the Golden, who is already at home in the lonely mountain when the Hobbit begins, well not much can be said as to my disdain in how JRR seems to create the illusion that such a fell Power can so easily be slain. It is my belief that JRR was probably going to write a compendium to this final trilogy, in which we find the Almighty Samug happily sporting about in the guise of a mortal man, only to later disabuse his fellow "humans" of the fallacy of believing he was a stone statute at the bottom of the Pool at Lake Town, when he reformed into his matchless essence. Samug is the quintessential Red Master unmoved by even the magic invisibility of Bilbo's ring. I like to think a Poor Knight like myself could take him, but sans a magical weapon like Excalibur, Akhilleus' weighty bronze Spear, Durendal, or the Foe Hammer such a fight could only end in another heros fall with none of the foes ichor to show, for all his vigor.
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Summary: A great story for any age
Review: J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth has been compared to the era of the Second World War (a good vs. evil plot) with elves, hobbits, men and horrible orcs and goblins substituting for GIs, Tommies and Nazis. Sure, the Oxford don was thinking of Hitler's menace at the time, but LOTR goes beyond the events of those days. Tolkien's books were the logical extension of his forays into language, both real and invented.So much has been written about LOTR, either as praise or scorn, that I can only suggest to the reviewer "Anti-JRR" to first examine his grammar and spelling before criticizing these works. Then, perhaps he should confine his barbs to the books themselves. Those of us who enjoy Tolkien's work (or any other work of literature) need not defend our reasons. Tolkien has created a legitimate world where characters inhabit our imaginations. That takes a bit of doing, because the average Tolkien fan is not the same as the average reader. We do like books; in fact, we love them, and I suspect that most demand a great deal from their literature. LOTR is no "in thing." The Harry Potter craze is closer to that genre, although it too may find an audience in 50 years or so. The longevity of LOTR is proof that people enjoy good reading. If anyone has yet to read these three books, ignore the bad reviews and enjoy The Lord of the Rings.
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Summary: Marvelous
Review: These are my favorite books beside Harry Potter.
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Summary: fantastic epic
Review: I have read this book and related material 4 times already. I found the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit as the best books i have ever read. I usually read the whole 1070 pages of The Lord of the Rings in 2 days. I even have some of the characters tatooed on my body. I was ecstatic when i read that J.R.R Tolkien's novel had been voted best novel of the 21st century. I just wish he was still alive so he could give us more fantastic material.
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Summary: HORRIBLE! TERRIBLE!! lord of the dings
Review: this was by far the worst book i have ever read. there is no characterization, no vivid settings....does tolkien understand the fundamental use of literay elements? the only readon i read the entire 3 books is because i figured, as much as people rave about it...it must get really really good, something must happen. but that never happend, never once throught the end of the book. people only rave so much because its a "thing" they jump on the tolkien bandwagon and say how great it is, when everyone knows it isnt that good at all. nothing makes sence....tolkein talks about places and people in this book as if everyone lknew what it was or who they were. i hate when something is referred to in the book and never explained as if we should already know what it is. that happnens all through the ENTIRE series. if you claim to be a fan of this, im willing to bet you really dont like the books at all..but are just joing the group of other fake fans so you feel like you belong to something. dont waste your time, money or patients on this sorry excuse for a book. i know mine will be put in the guest bathroom to be used for toilet paper...a worthier cause for a tree than being turned into a J.R.R. book(oh, and we all know that movies are way worse than the books....following this trend...the upcoming movie must be sooooo bad, that the screen will literaly MELT on opening night of fellowship of the rings)DOWN WITH LOTR!!!
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Summary: A true masterpiece
Review: First of all, I am not a great fan of Fantasy- in fact this series and the fantastic Harry Potter series (which I also cannot recommend enough)are the only works of Fantasy that I have truly come to appreciate.
Normally I read classic British and Russian Authors- Tolstoy, Austen, Elliot, Fielding, and the like, so don't be afraid if you have never read anything but the "classics" to branch out and try the fundamentals of other genre- this being the best example of Fantasy.
This is by far the most compelling trilogy that I have ever read. Once you get into it (and the first book may seem a little slow and uneventful at first), you will love it, and it will beg you to read and reread it many times. This is one of those rare pieces that you just become a part of. You become engrossed in this complex, imaginitive world that the master of all fantasy gurus, Tolkien, has left for the world to savor, appreciate, and love.
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Summary: i couldn't put this book down.
Review: Tolkien has created a fantasy world that is belivable, exciting, and makes the book impossible to put down. This fantasy world of Middle - Earth is so real to the reader that when you finally have to take your eyes off the book you're thinking about what you read and the world you were in until you pick it up and enter it again. I know that sounds cheesy but this book will draw you in to it's story, characters, and world.
The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are amazing stories that are so realistic, the characters so real, that you won't be able to stop reading these.
I would recomend this book to teenagers and adults.
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