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A review by thegingiraffe
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
4.0
Two and a half months and two library copies later!
It’s near impossible for me to consider these books without the attached movies, just because I’ve recently rewatched them all. That means that a lot of the time, visual descriptions of characters and sometimes locations are a bit lost on me, since no matter what Tolkien writes, I’m gonna picture Boromir as Sean Bean. This isn’t a bad thing, I just know Tolkien is known for his image drawing, but for me it was mostly just filler.
That being said, I still thoroughly enjoyed this read, despite knowing roughly the plot. There are enough extra events, nuanced details, and world building to keep the book standing on its own. Even things that would normally annoy me, I thought were great additions to this story. For example, the whole “vague history of Middle Earth” stuff used to annoy me in discussions, because you never get a full story, but in the read through I now can appreciate that it is in the end just a world building device, a really good one at that.
Near the end I started reading the characters lines out loud (specifically when Sean Bean says “It is a gift!”) and I think I’m going to do that in my read of The Two Towers
It’s near impossible for me to consider these books without the attached movies, just because I’ve recently rewatched them all. That means that a lot of the time, visual descriptions of characters and sometimes locations are a bit lost on me, since no matter what Tolkien writes, I’m gonna picture Boromir as Sean Bean. This isn’t a bad thing, I just know Tolkien is known for his image drawing, but for me it was mostly just filler.
That being said, I still thoroughly enjoyed this read, despite knowing roughly the plot. There are enough extra events, nuanced details, and world building to keep the book standing on its own. Even things that would normally annoy me, I thought were great additions to this story. For example, the whole “vague history of Middle Earth” stuff used to annoy me in discussions, because you never get a full story, but in the read through I now can appreciate that it is in the end just a world building device, a really good one at that.
Near the end I started reading the characters lines out loud (specifically when Sean Bean says “It is a gift!”) and I think I’m going to do that in my read of The Two Towers