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The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

85 reviews

annapox's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

3.5–4 stars for most of the book. I would give the Frodo and Sam scenes more than five stars if I could.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Gore, Violence, Xenophobia, Medical content, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

gvstyris's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

And that is another reason why the Ring should be destroyed: as long as it is in the world it will be a danger even to the Wise. For nothing is evil in the beginning. Even Sauron was not so.

I was surprised by how nostalgic I felt reading this first LOTR volume, which I’ve never read before — the ‘epic’ sense of adventure reminded me a little of reading Percy Jackson and Harry Potter as a child. 

I’m rooting for Aragorn and Sam, always <3  (but can’t believe Arwen is so much less present here than the films!) 

But yeah, if we’re being honest, there’s a lot of slightly dull walking around various parts of the wilderness that require patience to get through. 

Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Xenophobia and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death

noellegrace8's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

There is nothing I can add to already-established discourse about this book, series, or author. Y'all know the drill. 5/5, forever.

Rob Inglis, the narrator, also gets 5/5.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Violence, Grief, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Racism, Torture, Medical content, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Alcohol

As this is fantasy, some of these mild warnings are metaphorical rather than literal. For example, I included "racism" in the mild section because the different races of Middle Earth, particularly elves and dwarves, have preconceived biases toward one another that lead to animosity and contention.

aceofsphades_reads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Animal death, Xenophobia, and War

Minor: Blood, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

jessicabearbooks's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious relaxing slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This feels like home. The world building throughout this book is beautiful and it's easy to feel like you're there walking with the group - I wish I was!

The friendship between the fellowship is so heartwarming, especially Sam. Honestly Frodo doesn't deserve Sam as a friend, I'm really not a fan of Frodo as a character. I was waiting the whole first part for the introduction of Strider...was not disappointed. Definitely my favourite character by far - not just because he's fuckable ok, promise. There were so many parts of this book that just made me so happy.

This is a long story and very lengthy book for sure and not sure how I felt about there being no clear ending as the trilogy follows on through each book. 

This is a real story. This is what all good stories and books now were shaped by.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

ethuiliel's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Xenophobia, Stalking, Death of parent, and Alcohol

puttingwingsonwords's review against another edition

adventurous reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Racism and Injury/Injury detail

michaelmac316's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful inspiring mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

If like me you put off reading this for years, do yourself a favour and pick it up. It's just as good as you've heard it is. :) 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Alcohol

theintrovertsbooks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Death, Drug use, Genocide, Torture, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

val_theburrowofstories's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

For months now I’ve been meaning to start reading The Lord of the Rings and recently I found out there’s audiobooks narrated by Andy Serkis and I just knew I had to listen to that version and I’m happy I did! 

I watched the movies two years ago and I remember few things so I was comparing it to that at some points, there’s some things here I know didn’t happen in the movie and a couple others that were modified, it was interesting to see that. I was hoping to see more of Arwen but her appearance was so brief here. 

I love to see that Sam's loyalty and devotion towards Frodo is the same in the book. While having Pippin and Merry in the adventure is like having two little kids in the company lol 

I didn’t know Frodo leaves Hobbiton when he’s 50 years old, just like Bilbo did when he went on the journey with the dwarves 🥺 

My rating is 3.5 ⭐, it was entertaining and I love the audiobook, but I have to admit at some points I had no idea what was going on, and that’s because this is slow and (i’m sorry!) a bit boring sometimes lol so I lost my focus. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Grief

Here’s the three main trigger warnings in my opinion, I’ll be explaining a bit of how they appear in the book without much spoiler.

- Violence: They have to fight to escape other creatures.

- Grief / Death: One of the members of the Fellowship dies in the 3/4 of the book and in the rest of the book we see how the others are grieving.