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Ontario_Chris

Ontario_Chris@bookwyrm.social

Joined 2 years, 2 months ago

Gen-Xer and father of two living and working in the Silicon Valley

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16% complete! Ontario_Chris has read 2 of 12 books.

J.R.R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings (Paperback, Houghton Mifflin) 4 stars

In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, The …

Don't Skip The Final Chapters

5 stars

If you are in need of a thoughtful, well written review of the three books constituting the Lord of the Rings trilogy, please look elsewhere. I decided to reread J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" for the fist time since I read the trilogy of books when I was in Junior High School some forty years ago. The blue, green and red paperback books purchased from a Scholastic Book Fair that first I read did not survive my many house moves in the intervening years. Much later, I had purchased a copy of the 1991 Special Edition beautifully illustrated by Alan Lee which sat on a bookshelf for several years until recently unread. When I finally did pull the heavy single volume down, I found it almost too heavy to hold in my lap to read. So I went out to my local used book store (Recycled Books in …