A review by toad_maiden
A Tolkien Bestiary by David Day

3.0

This got three stars mostly because I love Tolkien in an irrepressible, nostalgic way. Frankly, this is not a high-quality encyclopedia. I thought the entries were organized and linked poorly. Day should have made better use of some sort of "See Also" tag to make navigation easier. In addition, the map was incomplete (I can't tell you how many times I scoured the map for a location listed in the text only to be disappointed), and the timelines were confusing. The writing style was your typical, overblown, inverted-sentence-structure, high-fantasy silliness. The illustrations were hit or miss. But I just love reading about elves and dwarves and ents, so I still enjoyed reading this.