false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166672230m/15323.jpg 33 229 One Ring to rule them all,<br> One Ring to find them,<br> One Ring to bring them all<br> and in the darkness bind them In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins. From Sauron's fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, his power spread far and wide. Sauron gathered all the Great Rings to him, but always he searched for the One Ring that would complete his dominion. When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first birthday he disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom. The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard; the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam; Gimli the Dwarf; Legolas the Elf; Boromir of Gondor; and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider. 3462456 book 1968 The Lord of the Rings total:36845|5:22456|4:9284|3:3638|2:944|1:523| 36845 162741 42430 2223 899773 0048230871 9780048230874 63 10 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191884242m/899773.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/899773.The_Lord_Of_The_Rings 5 22 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1969 Sat Nov 29 18:08:52 -0800 2008 Thu Apr 02 00:23:16 -0700 2009 8 The Lord of the Rings is one of the most popular books of the last century, it's surprising to see how few reviews there are here. I get the impression that many people feel guilty about liking it. It's a phase you go through, and the less said about it, the better. I think this is ...more...]]> 32 0618346244 9780618346240 1697 119 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156043001m/32.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32.The_Lord_of_the_Rings 5 11 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 1986 Mon Jul 09 20:41:48 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 18 09:45:53 -0700 2008 Lord of the Rings first when I was about eleven or so, and then stayed up all night at a hip boy/girl party in the bathroom with Nathan O. ... talking about ents and elves and whether Tom Bombadil was God. Yes, I was a geeky child. However, all these years later, the story has stuck with me. ...more...]]> 33 0618640150 9780618640157 30218 1663 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156043001m/33.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33.The_Lord_of_the_Rings 4 9 true Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1972 Mon Mar 17 09:05:46 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 17 09:08:26 -0700 2008
By now there are few people who haven't at least heard of LOT...more...]]> 33 0618640150 9780618640157 30218 1663 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156043001m/33.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33.The_Lord_of_the_Rings 2 13 false Sat Dec 01 04:47:47 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 01 05:04:03 -0800 2007
There's a cool story here, it's just a chore to actually get to it. I personally find Tolkien's writing to be agonizingly bland, and he is terrible at exposition -- he's always just dumping history lessons in t...more...]]> 31 0618517650 9780618517657 515 47 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156043000m/31.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31.The_Lord_of_the_Rings 5 7 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1980 Sat Mar 22 19:56:55 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 26 16:56:27 -0700 2008 The Hobbit in the early 70's and finishing the Lord of the Rings trilogy almost a decade later, before this anniversary edition came out. (I also read all four books to my wife in the early 80's; she loved them too!)
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When I was a child we did our yearly camping trip to the West Coast and Mootie always gave us an allowance for books/comics to read on the trip. It made traveling in the camper a little more bearable (barely)....more...]]> 32 0618346244 9780618346240 1697 119 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156043001m/32.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32.The_Lord_of_the_Rings 1 6 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri May 25 07:22:35 -0700 2007 Sun May 27 11:08:39 -0700 2007 more...]]> 33 0618640150 9780618640157 30218 1663 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156043001m/33.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33.The_Lord_of_the_Rings 5 2 false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 1980 Tue Jul 22 04:05:58 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 22 04:26:43 -0700 2008
And it's because it is so many different stories and, indeed, types of story, all melded together into one (a...more...]]> 32 0618346244 9780618346240 1697 119 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156043001m/32.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32.The_Lord_of_the_Rings 3 3 true Sat Feb 23 23:18:39 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 24 04:45:37 -0800 2008 I'm still a bit ambiguous about The Lord of the Rings. On the one hand, it's set in a very detailed universe, without so much as an atom out of place (apart from Tom Bombadil, who was meant to be an anomaly). Everything's thought through in exhaustive detail and there is a terrific sense of time and...

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7/97-Although the battle scenes were difficult to follow, the Elven stuff sentimental and dialog of less developed characters (Legolas, Gimli) sometimes melodramatic, there were plenty of tense moments that made up for at a...more...]]> 32 0618346244 9780618346240 1697 119 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156043001m/32.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32.The_Lord_of_the_Rings 5 2 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1985 Fri Jun 29 07:43:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 29 08:17:15 -0700 2007 LOTR has its faults, yes: it can be excessively descriptive; female characters (even the important ones) aren't as fully fleshed-out and realized as male characters (Arwen spends most of the books making a flag); Gandalf annoyingly and constantly points out how everyone else's decisions are wrong; t...more...]]> 15350 0261103253 9780261103252 184 17 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1209833321m/15350.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15350.The_Lord_of_the_Rings 5 7 false Fri Jun 19 14:07:06 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 15:55:37 -0700 2009 4 +
But to read an excellent pair of reviews, I recommend that you go to Brad's, re...more...]]> 33 0618640150 9780618640157 30218 1663 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156043001m/33.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33.The_Lord_of_the_Rings 0 1 false Sat Dec 20 17:50:53 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 17:53:06 -0800 2008 more...]]> 33 0618640150 9780618640157 30218 1663 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156043001m/33.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33.The_Lord_of_the_Rings 1 3 false Mon Oct 27 08:28:53 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 09:06:26 -0700 2008 I read this on my second attempt. I tried first when I was in my teens and found it dull, I gave up around page 100 or so. I finally read it years back in my early 30s, but although it ...more...]]> 529015 0618129022 9780618129027 191 21 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175558308m/529015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/529015.The_Lord_of_the_Rings 5 1 false Wed Oct 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 29 09:31:44 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 22 09:38:41 -0700 2008 more...]]> 33 0618640150 9780618640157 30218 1663 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156043001m/33.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33.The_Lord_of_the_Rings 5 1 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Tue Apr 22 10:38:54 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 22 10:47:21 -0700 2008 It's b...more...]]> 32 0618346244 9780618346240 1697 119 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156043001m/32.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32.The_Lord_of_the_Rings 3 1 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Fri Feb 22 20:42:17 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 23 11:01:22 -0800 2008 The Hobbit many times through out high school but could never really get into it (because of the cutness of the book/lack of a moving plot). Anycase, when the movie came out I wasn't to excited for it because I figured the whole series would be like the Hobbit. But I finally got dow...more...]]> 32 0618346244 9780618346240 1697 119 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156043001m/32.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32.The_Lord_of_the_Rings 4 1 true Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Sun Feb 17 02:30:36 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 17 02:41:44 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=15323