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Slightly less compelling than Fellowship but hey, the thing wasn't supposed to be split into separate books in the first place. ( ![]() 10/10 This is my favorite book in the series. LOTR is top tier fantasy for me. Reading these as three books to help with my reading slump and I'm marking this down a little from Fellowship. It feels more uneven, maybe because of the narrative being divided into two main threads and also feels strangely rushed in places with every major event being resolved in quite short chapters. The whole story of getting to Helm's Deep, the seige and the aftermath is one chapter and feels like it should have been two or three. I can kind of understand what Tolkien meant when he said in the preface of the revised edition that the book should have been longer. peter jackson's lord of the rings is simply better. sorry not sorry
That 'The Lord of the Rings' should appeal to readers of the most austere tastes suggests that they too now long for the old, forthright, virile kind of narrative... the author has had intimate access to an epic tradition stretching back and back and disappearing in the mists of Germanic history, so that his story has a kind of echoing depth behind it... Is contained inThe Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (indirect) The J. R. R. Tolkien Deluxe Edition Collection: " The Children of Hurin " , " The Silmarillion " , " The Hobbit " and " The Lord of the Rings " by J. R. R. Tolkien (indirect) ContainsIs retold inHas the adaptationInspired
Frodo and his companions of the ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the ruling ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They lost the wizard Gandalf in a battle in the Mines of Moria, and Boromir, seduced by the power of the ring, tried to seize it by force. While Frodo and Sam made their escape, the rest of the company was attacked by Orcs. Now they continue the journey alone down th great River Anduin ... alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go. No library descriptions found.
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