Reviews tagging 'Grief'

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

37 reviews

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: Fire/Fire injury and Violence

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

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: Grief, Death, and Violence

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.

natashalg's review

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

Even though it has its exciting parts, the book seems to just be building the foundations for the story to progress. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and War

perleerose's review

adventurous dark tense medium-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

4.5

Enjoyed part 1 of this adventure
Appreciated how some characters like Gimli got more development, vs just being a comedic relief character
I will never get over Tolkien’s location descriptions, I wanna emulate them in my own writing
‘The Withywindle valley is said to be the queerest part of the whole world-the center from which all the queerness comes, as it were.’

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Violence

Minor: Grief and Stalking

fantasy racism

shorelinepages's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Violence, and Death

Moderate: War

Minor: Gore, Alcohol, and Drug use

bootsmom3's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing 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: Violence, Death, Grief, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Moderate: Animal death and Blood

iono's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: Violence and Grief

kayceeisbookish's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Fatphobia, Grief, and Violence

bearystarry's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful slow-paced

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

4.5

Sam and Frodo 🩷 I really love being on an adventure with all of these characters. I do wish Arwen specifically was as involved as she is in the movies…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking and Grief

Moderate: Violence, Racism, Death, War, and Xenophobia

madamenovelist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Grief, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Racism, Colonisation, Fire/Fire injury, and Xenophobia

Minor: War, Torture, and Alcohol