Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.7 / 5.0

Childhood Fantasies:

These books captured my imagination like no other books ever have. Tolkien's vision is astounding. His ability to use words to paint such an enormous and vivid picture is without equal. I cannot get enough of Middle Earth. Although these are fantasy novels, everything is so real. There is no way I can do justice to Tolkien's masterpeice with these few words. Middle Earth is a place where childhood dreams, nightmares, and fantasies all come true in bright, vivid colors.

Startling, like lightning from a clear sky.:

I've just finished reading the Lord Of The Rings for the second time. My first reading of it was about three years ago. Amazingly, (and I think this says something of the quality of the story itself) I would say I enjoyed it even more this second time around. It is so sweeping and wide that it still thrills, never losing any of its unpredictablity even if one is already familiar with the ending. Tolkien's Middle Earth is so immense, such an entire "sub-creation" (as the author himself referred to it)...... more info

A Master Work:

Conventional wisdom posits that it takes 100 years before it is safe to consider a book a "classic." It has only been about 50 years since The Lord of the Rings was published but I am confident that another is not needed before we can call this book a master work.

Why do I say this? Because The Lord of the Rings deals with those perennial problems that all human beings have to deal with: the perils of ambition, the necessity of friendship, the need for courage and hope...among others. What makes this... more info

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