The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Reader reviewed by Mike

The Fellowship is one of my all-time favorite books. I have read it 8 or 9 times.

J.R.R. Tolkien as a child was involved in a literature club, in which he entertained fantasies and a world of chivalry which he thought had been lost to this world. The Fellowship is one of his first books pertaining to his great creation: Middle Earth.

If you read The Hobbit, (which I recommend reading first before anything else) you will become well aquainted with Hobbits, the small but doughty people of the shire.

The main character of the story is Frodo Baggins, who possesses a magic ring passed on to him by his uncle, Bilbo. The ring seems at first a mere quaint and trivial item with which to hide from nosy outsiders. But Gandalf, the grey wizard of ancient origin, has a hunch that this is otherwise. In the Chapter- The Shadow of the Past, Frodo finds out that the ring is more deadly, dark, and terrifying than anything beyond his comprehension. If a person holds this ring, before long it would possess him, and in the end- devour him. He would be a living nothing, and shadow. He would fade. This was the one ring which the Dark Lord Sauron needed to cover all the lands in a second darkness. So begins a quest to destroy the ring in the only place it can be: Orodruin, Mount Doom in the western toungue, the place where it was made. Mt. Doom lies in faraway Mordor, the lair of the Dark Lord.

Thus it begins, from Frodo's doorstep the the Land of Mordor. This Book is all about his journey, with eight Companions, dubbed- the Fellowship. Representatives from each race were chosen, on a mission to destroy the ring.
The rest that follows is for you to read.

Let me warn you- the books are far better than the movies. They may go slow at first, but that only adds depth to it. Stick to it, and you will be glad. But I do recommend you read the Hobbit first if you have not.

Happy Reading~~

Reader reviewed by Morgan

This was a really good ead. I really liked it although i thought the movie was abit more my speed. The book was a bit too descriptive of things and it was kinda slow but it was interesting.

Reader reviewed by gabriella

I love this book most bc it is first full of new heros ,elves,wizards. It is new counry ,new language .It is about friendship not only about war as the next books.But is's good to read all.

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.