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    <body><![CDATA[Now this one was MUCH better than the first! The action is fast paced, and there's three different stories going at once, so it's much more interesting than the first one.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my favorite book of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34.The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring_The_Lord_of_the_Rings_Part_1_" title="The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1) by J.R.R. Tolkien">The Lord of the Rings</a>, which is unusual because, as the middle section, it has really no beginning and no end.  I think that's what made it so strong.  You're really just following the journey, which it intense enough in itself without having to worry about the backstory...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20825782">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[There are many things that J.R.R. Tolkien proposes in the Lord of the Rings. An example being Frodo and Gollum, he states that even though some malevolent creature deserves punishment, or death, it is sometimes benevolent if one was kind and merciful enough to let that malevolent soul live. Gandalf ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49401876">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok, I am going to try not to spend all my time gushing about how much I love this series, because that will get redundant.  I'll just stick to reviewing The Two Towers.<br/>I didn't like this book as much as I liked tFotR, but it was still very good.  I found that some of the parts were a bit slow ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54437211">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I finally finished &quot;Two Towers&quot;!  Stress levels in my life prevented me from finishing the last few chapters so I just recently picked it up and finished it after starting the series late this summer.  The second book was wonderful of course and dense.  It is quite interesting flying throu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74680484">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've enjoyed all three in the trilogy for all the reaons others have stated. And there's not much I can add that hasn't been said before. So I'll add my own spin. I did enjoy The Two Tower most for two reasons.<br/><br/>First, I love trees. And I challenge anyone to find more compelling and memora...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80295265">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is awesome so far! In the beggining, Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli have departed from Frodo and Sam, and Merry and Pippin. Now they are split into seperate stories. Aragorn and the others find that the mysterious wizard, Gandalf the Gray has come back from the dead miraculously. Frodo and Sa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59062789">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The standard hardcover edition of the second volume of The Lord of the Rings includes a large format fold-out map. 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 have 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 the great River Anduin -- alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Refers to entire series:<br/><br/>J.R.R. Tolkien was the master of fantasy, and that's not just because he was the first to write a very popular modern epic.<br/><br/>What makes Tolkien superior was how he used his extensive knowledge of mythology and linguistics to create his own complex world....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51019855">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the second book in the series. In this one Frodo and sam continue their journey to Mordor to destroy the ring. while frodo and sam are doing that, aragorn and the rest of his crew prepare in rohan for the big battle between them and saruman's army called the battle of horburg, outside of roh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76535094">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is good fantasy though The Hobbit was better. And I don't like fantasy novels.  This trilogy had more &quot;fluff&quot; in it and you had to wade through more irrelevance than The Hobbit, which was a bit higher reading quality. I read The Hobbit first.  So I went from dessert to a mediocre meal...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59388435">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read the trilogy a number of times and often this book is mentally relegated to 'that one in the middle', but each time I actually read it I find it incredibly full and rich and possibly my favorite of the three.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Have read this series at least once a decade since college (which was a few decades ago for me) and it continues to be fresh and refreshing.<br/><br/>Great story and great storytelling.<br/><br/>The gold standard for fantasy.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Lord of the Rings is one of my favorite books, so obviously this book ranks highly. Here are my favorite parts of the saga that appear in this book:<br/><br/>Treebeard, the Ents, and their history in <em>Treebeard.</em><br/>The return of Gandalf, his description of his fight with the Balrog, and how h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72064071">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is as great as the first book. In fact, it’s better if that is even possible, and I have a feeling that the third book is going to be nothing less. Tolkien is seriously throwing more and more surprises at me as I read his books. He is now officially my #1 favorite author. We’ll see if any o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81895247">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It is book two of The Lord of the Rings series.  I liked the book for the same reasons that I loved the first, however, it's hard to get through.  I'm not a fan of the part with Sam and Frodo.  I feel like Tolkien repeats a lot of information that the reader already knows, even though Frodo doesn't....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49778671">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the things I love about Tolkien is that (in LOTR especially) he's always alluding to other parts of Middle Earth's history.  I noticed particularly in Two Towers that it mentions Feanor, Turin, Ungoliant and the like.  Sometimes the characters bring these things up and sometimes it's just in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79884754">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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