The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Book 1) by J.R.R. Tolkien Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Book 1)
Book Review: Long chapters, great book
Summary: 4 Stars
I am 1 chapter away from finishing this book, I have to say it has been an experience. Most of my friends wouldn't go near this book because it is so complicated, you really have to hold your breath and read. I have to say though, from my view point, I find the chapters long and exhausting. J.R.R. Tolkien has a very overwhelming sense of writing. But so unique it's story becomes classic. It took me months to read this book, and it will probably take me longer to start the second. I reccommend this book 10+Book Review: A Classic, for a Patient Reader
Summary: 5 Stars
This, being the first part of a trilogy, was long in itself. Four hundred and ten pages, and the pages contain about twice as much as a normal page. The writing is also very, very descriptive and imagery takes the center stage, so many readers (child and adult alike) will struggle with this book. Many will even put it down and deem it unreadable, much like I did the first two time I began it. This book is only for very patient readers. That being said, it's a classic.
Pour a cup of tea. Heck, sit it on a tea cozy. Turn off your phone, and absorb the writing. Visualize the mountains, rivers, all of the scenery. Feel what is happening, don't just read it. True, there is a lot of back story that could have been taken out, but it wasn't. So deal, and read it--most of it, if not all, is interesting. The story itself is marvelous, and has shaped the entire genre of fantasy into what it is today. Without Tolkien, all of this "world-making" going on would have never seen the light of day, so pay homage where homage is due. Not only is this work legendary, it is also very entertaining.
The tone grows increasingly dark as the novel progresses, but not awkwardly so. It seems fitting that as the valiant fellowship gets closer and closer to Mordor, the lair of the evil Sauron, that the subject matter should get heavier and the mood should darken. Speaking of the fellowship, Tolkien describes them in such a way that we get closer to all nine members. We get inside their brains and feel how they feel, and especially see what they see.
I look forward to "The Two Towers" and, especially, some more dialogue from Mr. Gollum himself.
10/10 Classic.
Book Review: Oh well, I tried...
Summary: 2 Stars
Many people gush over the LOTR series like they have nothing more to do. Curious, I went to find the first book, being the FOTR, to see what all the hype was about. Now, don't get me wrong. LOTR is good, but not as good as most people actually say it is. Sure, Tolkien created a interesting world full of unusual people. But must he go over every little detail? Sometimes he just keeps describing something for so long, my head starts to hurt and I keep losing my place or reading the same sentence over and over again. His dialogue is bland and there is really no emotion to it. The characters are just as bland as the dialogue. There is no or little character development in this book, despite its size. Characters should be 3D. Not that all of Tolkien's characters are flat. Actually, Bilbo is more 3D than Frodo. The other characters--Well I won't even start. The list is too long. I just fell asleep reading this book. Believe me, I tried really hard to read this book. But I just can't. I admire Tolkien for being able to create a world where fantasy rules, but the writer must be able to control his world freely and realisticly so that we can read it and enjoy it. It is sad to know that LOTR fans point their fingers accusingly to someone who writes something similiar to LOTR, but the book that person wrote is actually better than Tolkien's work himself.Book Review: Surprising Readings
Summary: 5 Stars
Bilbo Baggins finds a ring in the cave of Gollum. Soon after many years, Bilbo passes the ring to his nephew Frodo Baggins. Frodo finds himself with friends and family to the elfish city of Rivendell, not knowing what lurks behind every corner. As they pass along in Rivendell the Fellowship finds itself on a quest to destroy the One Ring of power. With this and much more exciting events and goose bump chills. Will good defeat evil once and for all?Book Review: The Quest Begins
Summary: 5 Stars
Though held to be a trilogy, this is opening volume of the six-part Lord of the Rings (each of the three LOTR novels has, as Tolkien counted it, two books inside them) and when I was younger it was my favorite in the series. Fellowship begins amid the pastoral utopia of the Shire, as the venerable Bilbo Baggins, hero of The Hobbit, prepares to celebrate a particular milestone in his life, and from there the pace changes as dark dangers begin to appear in this quiet backwater, as they have long-since done in other lands of Middle Earth. Soon Frodo Baggins, Bilbo's nephew, finds himself, along with his beloved servant Samwise and two hobbit friends, Merry and Pippin, traveling toward Rivendell, a great elvin city. After surviving the journey to Rivendell, meeting the mysterious ranger Strider, and taking part in a council where the representatives of the mightiest of Middle Earth's peoples gather, the quartet of hobbits join the Company of the Ring, a dwarf, an elf, a human warrior, the ranger Strider (now revealed as Aragorn, the heir to the Kingdom of Gondor) and the wizard Gandalf, and set out on a perilous mission to cast into the fires of Mt. Doom, the One Ring, tool of Sauron, the Lord of the Rings, foe of all that is good in Middle Earth, and would-be enslaver via war and tyranny of all that lives. This is the novel wherein we learn the fate of Balin from The Hobbit, where we briefly encounter Tolkien's most enigmatic and whimsical, yet perhaps most powerful of all beings, Tom Bombadil, and where we enter the dreary mines of Moria, legendary dwarven city carved deep under a mountain chain, and read of the battle of Gandalf the Grey and the demon of fire and shadow, the Balrog. Thrilling stuff indeed!