The Fellowship of the Ring

The story book is amazing

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My first ever book. It is awesome.

Good gift for kids and youngester who wish to explore fantacy world with thrill

Quality of the book is very good. Must buy

This book is pretty much perfect if not for the weak paper wrap outside which has the cover art.

Must read.

This review is for the hardcover illustrated edition. Great illustration, could be greater because the number of illustrations are very less. Whole book has only 18-20 illustrations..Rest the paper quality is awesome, printing is best. Binding is superb.

This book (well this and it's two original companions) pioneered fantasy and are the reason that elves, dwarves, long journeys and so much more are tropes of modern fantasy and have just become part of fantastical world's without explanation. In the 500 pages (only 1/3 of the full journey) this book explored such a variety of people, cultures and lands that it felt like a book of many smaller stories. Truly something special.However, as mentioned, this book isn't perfect. At times the pacing can be very slow, there's also a LOT of text that is purely long text of the travelling they're doing and the land around them. If the land were fantastical and there were much to see during all of these, it would make sense, but often it is simply written to emphasise the length of their journey. As a result, it can drag and can sometimes take a little rereading.However I cannot knock this book down for that as it is part of what gives the book its feel. It is supposed to feel like a long journey for naive hobbits travelling much much further than they ever have before and seeing many characters, creatures and cultures they never knew even existed. Can't wait to read the second...but may have a couple days off to build up the concentration levels again.

Kindle version is 450 pages plus Maps.A Prologue describes Hobbit characteristics and the plot of The Hobbit, the prequel to this book.I wish I had stopped at The Hobbit.An enjoyable read but bogged down in the middle section with the Hobbits on quest in the Shire repeating themselves IE feasting, telling tales of their question to others. Repetitive and confusing with many different families introduced, son of X, who is son of Y etc.The book is probably 100 pages too long and after the dreary middle section, improves greatly in the last 125 - 100 pages.It is a classic so my views are very much in the minority.I will continue the series watching the films as opposed to reading the books.

As a huge nerd and book lover I was very excited to read this. Unfortunately it proved to be the best in the series and was very slow. It is an interesting book and contains a lot of very interesting parts which are not included in the film. A lovely world to dive into and I would recommend but unfortunately it was very slow and difficult to read. The Illustrations are lovely and the hardback edition is very easy to read in terms of print size. Unfortunately it arrived heavily damaged and was not well packaged. If you are going to buy any editions, I would buy these as they are lovely.

An unfortunate consequence of the success of The Lord of the Rings has been that frequent resetting has engendered errors by the hundred. In some copies, the ring verse has lost its last line; in others, The Council of Elrond its last two sentences. The chief virtue of this 50th Anniversary Edition of The Fellowship of the Ring (ISBN 9780007203543) is that its text, prepared by some of the most eminent Tolkienologists on Arda, is undoubtedly the most accurate ever published.Based on Tolkien's own second edition, the book omits his 1954 Foreword, which he himself came to regret as misconceived, but includes his revised Foreword of 1966 and his 1966 Prologue. We're also given a seven page Note on the Text by Douglas A. Anderson, as well as a four page Note on the 50th Anniversary Edition by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull.Tolkien would probably chuckle if he knew that two of his frustrated wishes for his book have finally been granted half a century after he proposed them. The tengwar ring inscription has at last been printed in fiery red instead of black; and a tipped in, fold-out plate reproduces his laboriously crafted, battle-distressed pages from the Book of Mazarbul, already well known to fans from their appearance in a Tolkien calendar and then in Pictures by J. R. R. Tolkien. The inscription on the Door of Moria, by contrast, remains in its familiar black on white, a retreat from the arguably more fitting white on black alternative ventured in the large format hardcover edition featuring paintings by Alan Lee. The only other illustrations are Christopher Tolkien's canonical red and black maps of part of the Shire and of the west of Middle-earth, the latter in its much improved, Unfinished Tales version but now reduced to only about a quarter of its original area. Readers with eyes as keen as Gwaihir's may regret that lines that were once firm and true are now pixelatedly fuzzy; those who would prefer a larger map should seek out the poster-sized version redone by John Howe ( The Maps of Tolkien's Middle-earth: Special Edition ).The design of the text is very similar to that of the second edition, the only obvious difference being that the PostScript Monotype Plantin font is slightly smaller than the Imprint font of yore. The traditional tengwar and runes still adorn the title page, now accompanied by a JRRT monogram. L.E.G.O., Harper Collins's Italian printer, has printed the text crisply on a smooth, cream-coloured paper much like that often used by Everyman's Library, a touch less opaque than would be ideal but not to the point of being objectionable.The book is signature bound with a black and yellow headband, and comes in a robust black cover with elegant gilt lettering. It lies nicely flat when opened. The dust jacket, matt and reminiscent of parchment but with a tough plastic lining, allows us to enjoy a motif painted by Tolkien himself, in which Sauron's Eye stares at us through the Ruling Ring and its tengwar, while Vilya, Nenya and Narya jointly confront his malevolence. The jacket's English lettering is printed in a striking copper foil, which lamplight kindles to a gleam that's rather beautiful.This admirable, almost perfect edition of Tolkien's masterpiece probably comes closer than any other to bringing us his book in the form that he desired. Warmly recommended. The Maps of Tolkien's Middle-earth: Special Edition

A classic, but the journey was a long one. Somewhat Wagnerian, tedious in parts but spectacular in others.