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Reader reviewed by Daerkpaw

One Ring to rule them all...

This book is responsible for the existence of fantasy literature. This
is the book that you can blame everything from Harry Potter to Star
Wars on. This book is very good.

It's good because it's exciting, action-packed, funny, and sometimes
frightening. It's also good because of the character development, the
incredible history contained in it, and because of the wonder of it
all. This book got me reading fantasy, a genre that I love, and it's a
book I reread every year at least once.

That's probably enough on how good it is. If you don't yet know the
plot, I'd be a very bad person to reveal much of it to you, because if
you don't read this book you'll probably watch the movie anyway, but
here's the basics, or at least how it starts:

There's a Hobbit, a short guy who's part of a whole species of short
guys, and there's a ring. The ring turns you invisible when you put it
on, and for the first chapter or so, all seems dandy. It's not.

Actually, I'm gonna leave it at that. I'll just say that before the
book is over there will be great evil battled, friends corrupted,
mortal wounds received, and much tears, and much laughter. The book
starts off kind of slow, at least for some people, but once that part
is over, it gets good and stays good.

This book isn't everybody's favorite, but hey, Tolkien got declared the
best Science Fiction writer ever because of this piece of writing. A
lot of people like this book very very much.