Rating: Summary: Yes, you can believe what people say! Review: What can one say that hasn't already been said about the most epic battle of good vs. evil? Immortalized for the generations to come, Lord Of The Rings is amusing, amazing, fun, scary and suspenseful and surely the work of a master writer. The characters are alive, the events real and the landcape ever so uniquely convincing. Perhaps, for once, the legend lives up to its reputation. Never before has the choice of the best work in a given genre been such an easy and universal win.
Rating: Summary: Fanstastical Trilogy Review: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy is a wonderful series of Books.They take you to another world with great characters.I just finished reading Return of the King.When I first started reading them a year and a half ago I wasn't really into it.However after seeing Fellowship of the Ring movie I started again and now I don't know why I didn't like them before.The Language is hard to understand at first but after a while no problem.All the Diffrent characters play hero at diffrent times during the Trilogy.
Rating: Summary: A great book for the new generation. Review: Seeing that this book is rather aged for the time, it has aged well. Already a blockbuster movie, The Lord of the Rings turns out to prove that anything with a history such as this great title can appeal to anyone. A definite must buy. On another note, books are not evil.
Rating: Summary: Bizass Review: These books are beautiful!! Don't be discouraged they only have awsome pics from the movies on the covers nothing more and all the original text. Great collectors peice.
Rating: Summary: The Lord of the Books Review: This is one of the best series of books ever. It has a great description of everything that you can even imagine yourself in the setting. It's an amazing set that once you start you just can't stop.
Rating: Summary: The Lord of the Rings Review: I first read this in 1974. Over the years I may have re-read the entire trilogy nearly twenty times. The tale "grows in the telling".This is a sprawling, epochal morality tale. The sheer amount of work that J.R.R. Tolkien poured into this belies its' status as a labor of love. What Tolkien expected from this work is unknown to me, however given that it is approaching its' THIRTIETH printing as of this writing (01/2002) speaks for itself. You have reluctant heroes, villains (overt and secret), magic, terror, small quiet lands and immense empires, love, fear, friendship and the classic struggle of good versus evil all against a backdrop of an epic struggle. The fictional world of Middle Earth constructed by Tolkien has well stood the passing of the years and even his own passing in 1973. This work stands on its' own merits and is well worth a read. Thank you Professor Tolkien, for this literary legacy.
Rating: Summary: What can i say? No words, feel it. Review: What can i say of this book, is it really a book?. If heaven really exists i think is very similar to middle-earth. If you haven't read it yet, it's like having gold for 30 bucks and not taking it. Tolkien was touched by something superior, it's unbeliveable somebody can write such a thing. I have no words, just read and be delighted, for it only happens once in a lifetime, something like this...
Rating: Summary: Bored of the Rings Review: Acknowledging Tolkien's brilliance as a writer (he writes very, very well) and linguist (innovative) and accepting that a truly great imaginative mind wrote this book, I found _The Lord of the Rings_ to be a turgid trudge of a read. Thoroughly and utterly disappointing. It's interesting for the first 700 pages. Thereafter I couldn't wait for it to finally end. I completely lost interest in _The Return of the King_ -- the first two books of the trilogy were moderately interesting. A good cure for insomnia, makes a very good door-stop. I hope the movie is better than the book.
Rating: Summary: Great Movie Art!!! Review: This book has great covers with the movie art. There is not a better looking set out there. Of course, it goes without saying that the books are simply the greatest books ever written. This set contains the lord of the rings trilogy. J.R.R. Tolkien did not want his book in a trilogy, he wanted it in one full version, but publishers printed it as a trilogy. I defiantely like having it in a boxed set trilogy, because the full version book is too large to carry around and is a hassle to read. This set could be even better with The Hobbit, but it can be read without the Hobbit. For anyone who does like this book I would recommend The Hobbit, it is fine to read it before or after the series. Anyways, I believe this is a great boxed set and is really fun to read. Oh and by the way I almost forgot to mention the great fold out maps in the back!
Rating: Summary: Tolkien;LOTR's-A conservative book that enchanted liberals! Review: A conservative book that enchanted the liberals too!
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