Book details of 'The Lord of the Rings'

Title	The Lord of the Rings
Author(s)	J. R. R. Tolkien
ISBN	0395974682
Language	English
Published	June 1999
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin Co

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Unknown reviewer wrote:
No coments....This is not just a good book, it's a myth already.
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Reviewer Eric Veldhuyzen wrote:
This book is just so f**ing good i can read 100 times and it wouldn`t be boring the names the fantasy everything is just so cool thi book is much better than harry potter (<--cool book too) but thats my opinion thnx goodbye and read the damn book.
Reviewer Stefan Koopmanschap wrote:
This is, without a doubt, the best fantasy book ever written. Of course, this book is seen by many as the foundation for modern fantasy fiction, and it definately IS that foundation, but it's not just that. It's the wonderful detail in which every aspect of the story, from the tree and its leeves to all the persons that come back in the storyline somehow ... everything is worked out in full detail! What a wonderful book, with an exciting storyline and ... well ... everything is just perfect!
Reviewer amazon.com wrote:
A Christian can be forgiven for not reading the Bible--heck, it's a pretty big book after all. But there's no salvation for a fantasy fan who hasn't read the gospel of the genre, J.R.R. Tolkien's definitive three-book epic, The Lord of the Rings (encompassing The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King), and its charming precursor, The Hobbit. That many (if not most) fantasy works are in some way derivative of Tolkien is understood, but the influence of The Lord of the Rings is so universal that everybody from George Lucas to Led Zeppelin has appropriated it for one purpose or another. Not just revolutionary because it was groundbreaking, The Lord of the Rings is timeless because it's the product of a truly top-shelf mind. Tolkien was a distinguished linguist and Oxford scholar of dead languages, with strong ideas about the importance of myth and story and a deep appreciation of nature. His epic, 10 years in the making, recounts the Great War of the Ring and the closing of Middle-Earth's Third Age, a time when magic begins to fade from the world and men rise to dominance. Tolkien carefully details this transition with tremendous skill and love, creating in The Lord of the Rings a universal and all-embracing tale, a justly celebrated classic.
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