The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien Reviews

It is quite difficult to know where to begin when describing this book (or I should say books for there are six). It seems somehow insufficient to simply describe it as a masterpiece that all other fantasy works can be judged against. I have read this work fully about three times in full and I have read favored parts numerous times more. ...

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, and its prequel The Hobbit should have a place in the library of every home. These are books you will read again and again. First introduced to the world of Middle-Earth in my teens, I must have read the trilogy 20 times at least. Every read brings out more surprises - sentences you skimmed over, or just missed ...

I was going strong on my quest to read through all of Steven Kings books, but i fell down when i decided to finish reading lord of the rings. The thing about this books is it's length. To be frank, it's an epic! The thing i hate most about good books is that when you near the end, you don't want the story to finsh. ...

If you've never read or heard of the Lord of the Rings (LOTR) before, I suggest you read The Hobbit first - it's another good tale which gives a lot of background into characters and story of the Lord of the Rings, and while you don't need to read it, the knowledge you gain from it will add to your enjoyment of the story, as well as ...

Haha , that made you read this . He isn't really , you probably already know . Please can anyone tell me what is so fantastic about this book . I read the first few pages and thought to myself that it was a good start , but then he started his journey . Please , why make us paying readers sit ...

Having just finished 'The Lord of the Rings', I can't let it pass without adding my opinion to the variety which are gathering here. 'The Lord of the Rings' is a packaged as a trilogy, however, Tolkien always intended (according to the introduction in my copy!), that they were on book divided in three, rather than three books, even ...

Welcome to the fantasy World where your wildest dreams come alive. I don't think you will find more imaginary creatures in a book of any other author then Tolkien. Hobbits, elfs and dwarfs are just a beginning. Tolkien described everything so well that sometimes you wonder whether this all is not real. You have a walk in a forest and you hope ...

This has to be the best book ever written. J.R.R Tolkien created a master piece when he wrote this magical, enchanting book that manages to capture the imagination of all who read it. The originality of it is amazing - how anyone can make such unbelievable things apear normal and make people like us relate to them says a lot about their ability as ...

I first heard of J.R.R. Tolkiens "Lord of the Rings" when I was about seven and it was read to me by my dad on holiday when we were camping. Since then I have read it every year as it is the best work of fiction, possibly the best book ever written (or likely to be written!). The book follows on from the "Hobbit" ...

The first book in the series by J.R.R Tolkien 'The Hobbit' has been well summarised in the prologue of the wonderful book 'The Lord of the Rings', All the way through this book I could not put it down. In 'The Hobbit' a hobbit named Bilbo finds a magical ring, which makes the weare invisible. In this book He passes ...

This book is regularly found near the top of any "the best books ever" list, and for a very good reason. It is essentialy a typical good against evil story, but with so much more there. The story is essentially very simple - a mild hobbit has to leave on a long journey through great danger to save the world. Along the way he makes ...

The Lord of the Rings is every bit as good as its predecessor, The Hobbit. It continues the story about 40 years after the Hobbit ends. It starts with Bilbo's eleventy twelth birthday (or something like that), and him leaving his estate to his nephew called Frodo, and more importantly he leaves his magic ring. As the years pass, ...

This book has lasted longer than the Russian Empire, on which it is supposedly based - the contention for power between the West and the East. It has lasted because it is a classic. I cannot pretend to know anything about structure or criticism. All I really know is that I have read it , and read it again. 20 years later I am meeting ...

I would say it was the best book ever but I’ll leave room for the millions that I have not yet read. I do think that it is most certainly one of them, and despite it’s 1000 pages, small print and numerous appendixs I’ve still managed to read it 3 times and am about to start again. The story is about a ring which can ...

Lord of the Rings is my all time favourite. Set in three volumes it is a fantastic read. It is full of weird and wonderful characters such as Bilbo Baggins and Frodo, Gandalf the wizard Aragorn the tracker. A mystical journey takes a party of heroes through dark and mysterious places. The 'dark' Lord is the tyranical mysticator who wants ...

Lord of the Rings has to be the most popular, most successful book this century has produced. I see from another review in this section that it is only behind the Bible in sales. The popularity of the book stems from from it's inherent nature and detailed background. Tokein created an entire language for this novel, as well as family ...

I first heard of the Hobbit when I was a mere infant, and it was read to me as such over a period of a few weeks by one of my school teachers. Never have I been so enthralled. It was only when I reached my early teens that I discovered that there was more...Tolkein had written TLOTR!!! I started to read it when at home one christmas holiday, ...

After he created the classic Hobbit, Tolkien developed its setting into an entire world and mythology. An expert scholar and linguist, he created histories and languages, an incredible work of imagination taking years. Most of this depth remains below the surface – unless you scour the appendices and other volumes published more recently ...

I usually go out of my way to be non-predictable, but I’m afraid I have to go with convention on this one. This is simply the finest work of fiction that I have read (and I am an avid reader). It starts off more or less as a sequel to the Hobbit, a little bit more grown up perhaps (In fact if you read the History of middle-earth thing by ...

Well, what can I say, I first read this book when I was 15 and in the 7 years since then I have read it 3 times and it is not a small book ( 1000 pages ). I don't read many books but I partically like this one, it has everything, excitement, in the form of battles, quests and the amount of different characters. It has romance. It has twists ...