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The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
A book by J. R. R. Tolkien
Hobbits and wizards and Sauron--oh, my! Mild-mannered Oxford scholar John Ronald Reuel Tolkien had little inkling when he publishedThe Hobbit; Or, There and Back Againin 1937 that, once hobbits were unleashed upon the world, there would be no turning … see full wiki
Author:
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Genre:
High Fantasy,
Mythopoeia
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin,
Del Rey,
Ballantine
3 reviews about The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
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i love these books, ive read them multiple times. and i loved the triliogy movies and am excited to see how the long awaited Hobbit movie will turn out.
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Harassed by the faithful for my ambivalent views of the movie instalments, the main allegation levelled at me was "you can't understand it unless you've read the books". Notwithstanding that this by itself is a pretty damning criticism of a film, I thought, all right, I'll do it. Two months later, I'm finally done. The good parts: The Lord of the Rings is a collossal feat of imagination, no doubt about it. Tolkien indeed has constructed an entire world, a history and a mythology, invented … more
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As a kid I was fascinated by science fiction and loved, as well, the mythic worlds of earlier times. Among my favorites were the northern mythologies of the Norse and related Scandinavian peoples. I also had a soft spot in my heart for old fashioned Celtic mythology. And so, when I stumbled onto Tolkien's LORD OF THE RINGS in my teens (a long time ago indeed!), I was practically floored, since it melded all these elements together into a new kind of tale: high fantasy with an epic cast to it. In … more
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