2018 re-read: Wanting the comfort of a familiar book/series I'm diving back in to LoTR and still enjoy the first installment. It has been six year since my initial reading of this book and I'm surprised what I forgot so in a way it was like reading it again for the first time. I knew what to expect, how long the story lingered in areas and then the end accelerates out of nowhere and it was all fantastic.

Original reading in 2012: It's difficult to rate a book that is so well known and has become an incredibly successful movie franchise. This was my first time reading the books and I found it not as daunting of a read as I was lead to believe. The story lacks characters inner voice so the way the story unfolds is not what I'm used to but thankfully someone made a movie and if I needed to fill in the blanks I could rely on that. On that note, reading Fellowship has made me appreciate how good the movie adaptation is and am appreciative of the changes (however few) that were made.

All in all it was a very enjoyable read, it would have been five stars but I had to leave some room left to rank the books that will follow.