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  • This just wasn't my type of book. I never did get into it as much as other people have sworn they did. I don't understand all of the hype. Oh well. I tried, and I finished it. I hate to put a book down once I've started reading it. No matter how bad it is. Not that this one was bad. Just not my thin ... Continue

    This just wasn't my type of book. I never did get into it as much as other people have sworn they did. I don't understand all of the hype. Oh well. I tried, and I finished it. I hate to put a book down once I've started reading it. No matter how bad it is. Not that this one was bad. Just not my thing.

    

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• ― Miraclesmommadesigns said on Sep 4, 2008 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

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  • Love these books

  • This one book contains the 3 Tolkein books (minus The Hobbit) that tells the story of The Lord of the Rings. I liked having one huge book to go through, rather than the 3 separate books. I could keep going as I tore through one story into the next.

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    This one book contains the 3 Tolkein books (minus The Hobbit) that tells the story of The Lord of the Rings. I liked having one huge book to go through, rather than the 3 separate books. I could keep going as I tore through one story into the next.

    I like the books so much better than the movie, because the movies cannot give true justice into the world that Tolkein created, or the creatures. In these books, you get to really use your imagination and "see" things through Tolkein's eyes, not just the director of the movie who picked and chose what parts of the story to elaborate on or throw away.

    A great classic read for anyone who likes fantasy and adventure!

    

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  • Typical western sytle fantasy, I mean...too typical

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• ― Edu said on Aug 8, 2008 about the Leather Bound edition| Add your feedback

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  • I'll probably never "finish". I find reading J.R.R.'s masterpiece quite tedious.

    

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• ― Jason William Egroff said on Jun 27, 2008 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

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  • Have read all three in high school & have reread the series at least twice.

    

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• ― Alex Highgate said on Feb 6, 2008 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • I had to buy the boxed set when the movies came out. I have very old, very delicate copies of each book from a 1967 printing with the foreward by Peter S. Beagle, but they have been read so often that they are crumbling away.

    

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• ― dalai lala said on Dec 29, 2007 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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 his fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, Sauron's power spread far and wide. He gathered all the Great Rings to him, but ever he searched far and wide for the One Ring that would complete his dominion.
On his eleventy-first birthday Bilbo 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, Merry, Pippin, and Sam, Gimli the Dwarf, Legolas the Elf, Boromir of Gondor, and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.

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