The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

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Summary: Each time through is better than the last
Review: I read the Lord of the Rings for the first time when I was 12. The second time around was three years ago, and I'm planning another time through very soon. These are simply the best fantasy novels around. Robert Jordan is good, and George R R Martin is extremely good, but Tolkien is simply beyond compare. Each book grabs the you and pulls you into the story. I cannot recommend these books enough to everyone. They are simply great. The end makes it all worth the whole read, but the story keeps you going the whole time, never wanting to put it down. READ IT!

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Summary: Racist? You have got to be kidding!
Review: I can't beleive how absolutely stupid people are these days. You have to be really desperate to find a racist tone in this wonderful series. Just because darkness is associated with evil doesn't mean that people of a darker skin tone then the author are the same. What colour do you think the necromancer should wear, pink? Plaid? How about a grass skirt? Evil is accociated with darkness because of one thing only; the dark is scary. You can't see in the dark, plants can't grow and it generally creates an uneasy feeling when you can't perceive your surroundings. People who want to go unseen or sneak up on you wear black in the darkness. How could that possibly offend you? Does that mean when I get a tan in the summer that I become progressively more evil? By the way, I have yet to see a human who is actually the colour black. Stop looking for sympathy and understand that this is a fantastic story with no racial undertones in it.

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Summary: Good book but pretty racist in an ignorant way
Review: Okay, Okay, I read through every other review and saw maybe 10 reviews that gave this series less than 5 stars and a couple of those reviews were just attention grabbers. I give this book only two stars because it is racist. I just read the Chronicles of Narnia a similar set of allegorical fantasy books with racist undertones. Both series deal with enemies (called calormenes in the chronicles and i-can't-remember-what in the rings) that have dark skin, while the good guys have blond hair and fair skin. They are the same sort of racism found in Aladdin. If I remember there is even an incident where the enemies are called "darkies" in Chronicles. I recommend these books if you can get pass the ignorant racism that unfortunatly detracts from otherwise great series.

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Summary: The most absorbing fiction ever written
Review: I have read The Lord of the Rings once a year for the past 22 years - it really does get better each time!

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Summary: Simply the best
Review: I am reading this book for the second time, and I still think that it is the best book ever written. JRR Tolkien is simply a genius!!

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Summary: One Book to rule them all...
Review: Modern fantasy readers beware: If you love DragonLance, Forgotten Realms and other fantasy hack-n-slash books you might want to skip this one. Tolkiens Middle Earth requires much more thought and devotion than most contemporary fantasy novels allow. However, if you (like me) have read The Wheel of Time (yuck), DragonLance Saga, Terry Brooks' Shannara and Anthony's Xanth books and yearned for something more, something deeper, then the Lord of the Rings might be what you're looking for. No author, before or since, has created a world as complete as Middle Earth. With a landscape and a history so detailed, you can't possibly comprehend that it exists only in the imagination.
And contemporary fantasy readers know this: In a hundred years, when The Wheel of Time fades into obscurity, when no one can tell you who Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman are, and when a new generation of fantasy authors take the place of the currently established ones, people will still be reading The Lord of the Rings and it will go down in history as one of the greatest literary works of mankind.

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Summary: Just Great !!!! Mythology and FRP fans must read it !!!!!!
Review: I have read all these books more than twice and really enjoyed what I did every time.I recommend everyone to read these masterpieces written by the king of the literature.These books are also ideal for those who want to become an FRP fan and for those who want to get introduced with the best artificial mythology ever written...

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Summary: A masterpiece.
Review: A magnificent achievement of unequaled greatness, beauty, depth and complexity. Tolkien's works are as wonderful as the world (the Middle-Earth) they describe and portray.

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Summary: I LOVE THESE BOOKS!
Review: man oh man. I had heard so much about the Hobbit and the other books, but I never read them til recently. I got them from my brother's book-shelf. I was always reading them, keeping in my room(which I got in trouble for) I think it'll be awhile my bro will let me borrow any books again, so I'm just going to buy them. his were falling apart anyway

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Summary: i will buy this book when i can afford to pay $22.37
Review: I read this book when i was about 12 years old.i have beenreading books since then for the last 13years.When i can afford to pay$22.37 for a book i will definitely buy this one and gift it to posterity.