Author: J.R.R. Tolkien Title: Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Place Published: New York Publisher: Ballantine Books Year Published: 1965 No. of Pages: 458 Price: $6.99 Place Bought: n/a (Borrowed) If you asked a month ago what I thought of The Fellowship of the Ring , the first volume of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, I would have said it was extremely boring. I’ve tried reading the novel several times, but could never get past the chapters with Tom Bombadil and his poems. I’ve made reading the LOTR trilogy a book resolution for 2014. After all, it’s widely known as the greatest fantasy epic of our time. So with a little encouragement from a colleague—and with the irrational belief that it would be easier to finish the novel if I read her copy of the book instead of mine—I set out on another journey through Middle-earth. Volume one chronicles the beginning of the War of the Ring. It starts with the hobbit Frodo Baggins coming i...
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