The Fellowship of the Ring

Being the first part of The Lord of the Rings

Paperback, 529 pages

English language

Published Aug. 13, 1991 by Grafton.

ISBN:
978-0-261-10235-4
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OCLC Number:
59814092

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4 stars (328 reviews)

Continuing the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the first part of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring a striking black cover based on Tolkien's own design, the definitive text, and a detailed map of Middle-earth.

Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power – the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring – the ring that rules them all – which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins.

In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in …

93 editions

re-read annually until Return of the King came out as movie

5 stars

Fantastic read. I own the old German translation, thank God, and as a special hardcover edition in a single red volume with silken bookmarks and bible-thin pages. Very beautiful. The old translator had a direct line to Tolkien himself and discussed best translations of the intended tone and spelling. Why German publisher Klett-Cotta would commission a new translation after the movies had come out is beyond me. And how Frodo is Sam's "boss", der Chef, in the new translation says everything about the inaptitude to capture the medieval-like setting.
Does anyone who read both translations prefer the new one?

reviewed The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

Review of 'The Fellowship of the Ring' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

My impression of the movie is that it's kind of like a nature documentary of New Zealand. My impression of the book is that that's not necessarily inauthentic, but I enjoyed the lore, and having a map was also helpful for following what was going on. In short, there's a reason the song lyric currently in my head is "I like the books way better than the movie, because some parts got left out."

Review of "The Fellowship of the Ring" on Good Reads

4 stars

"The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien is the kind of book rich in details that one can find themselves getting lost in. Imaginative, magical, engrossing, and brilliantly constructed, the individual text is part of a larger novel title "Lord of the Rings" which is a amazing work of the imagination which often overshadows what is sometimes slow pacing and one-dimensional characters.

One is struck by the level of detail Tolkien put into creating his literary world. The details are so well drawn and defined and the background so deep that one often forgets that they are reading a work of fiction and not a long-lost history or legend. This is where Tolkien's background as a linguist and folklorist really shines, utilizing standard folkloric techniques and creates rich languages for his text.

"Fellowship" follows the story of Frodo Baggins, a hobbit who inherited a mysterious golden ring from his …

Review of 'The Fellowship of the Ring : being the first part of The Lord of the Rings' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

Ugh...my copy does NOT have the movie on the cover. Even though the LOTR is my favorite film series, this still annoys me to no end.

Back to the book-this was a lot slower going than I remember. I think I really did skim over some of the longer-winded parts. Still love Tom Bombadil, though!

Review of 'Fellowship of the Ring - Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien, JRR [Paperback ]' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

20 years after watching the first movie and deciding to read the books someday, I finally managed.
I was not disappointed and enjoyed this first book (or rather: 2 volumes) very much. Interesting to see all the differences and what the movie omitted or invented. I was initially afraid of how long this book would be, but it was much shorter than expected.
Cannot wait to continue with the next book/volume.

reviewed Die Gefährten by J.R.R. Tolkien (Der Herr der Ringe, 1)

Review of 'Die Gefährten' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Wirklich gut und als Hörbuch grade zu perfekt für unterwegs! Immernoch schade, dass das Buch kaum Frauenfiguren hat. Selbst Arwen schien engelhaft blass; erst Galadriel hatte ein bisschen mehr Kontur (sehr große Frau mit ungewöhnlich tiefer Stimme 😍)

Review of 'The Fellowship of the Ring' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

This is another one of those books I started and put away unfinished many times when I was in school. Now, after discovering Goodreads, I found the motivation to finish it.

I'm glad I finally did. It's good... but it's not as outstanding, jaw-dropping, eye-popping-ly good as everyone makes it out to be. I'd give it 3.5 stars.

One thing I can say about Tolkien is that he absolutely could write! His talent for describing in excruciating detail every single leaf on every single tree is admirable - but it gets a bit much. The book took me just less than two months to read, and if I were to hazard a guess, I probably took in... 60% of it. Tops. I have a tendency to "zone out" while I'm reading, and have been known to read twenty pages or more and have no recollection of what I've just read. …

Review of 'Fellowship of the Ring - Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien, JRR [Paperback ]' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

"The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien is the kind of book rich in details that one can find themselves getting lost in. Imaginative, magical, engrossing, and brilliantly constructed, the individual text is part of a larger novel title "Lord of the Rings" which is a amazing work of the imagination which often overshadows what is sometimes slow pacing and one-dimensional characters.

One is struck by the level of detail Tolkien put into creating his literary world. The details are so well drawn and defined and the background so deep that one often forgets that they are reading a work of fiction and not a long-lost history or legend. This is where Tolkien's background as a linguist and folklorist really shines, utilizing standard folkloric techniques and creates rich languages for his text.

"Fellowship" follows the story of Frodo Baggins, a hobbit who inherited a mysterious golden ring from his …

Review of 'Fellowship of the Ring - Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien, JRR [Paperback ]' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

1.5 stars.

Yes, I understand this is a classic, and I'm giving up my nerd cred by not liking this, and how can I possibly be a fantasy fan if I don't like this, etc.

But I just didn't like it. It was long and boring and tedious and I kept trying to skip the 20-page descriptions of the history of a single field only to discover a few pages later that somewhere in that 20-page history is one essential piece of information critical to the plot so I'd have to go back and re-read the 20-page history.

I appreciate that Tolkien was a genius who invented languages and built a rich, complex world, and that he was attempting to imitate medieval writing (I can't say whether he was successful -- I've not read much medieval literature). But it wasn't my cup of tea.

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