Where do I begin? JRR Tolkein most certainly was a brilliant person and most definitely one of the most creative people of our time. This is manifest in his first installment of the Lord of the Rings. He has created an entire world and with that world an entire history (when I say history I mean more than 2,000 years of it). This is very apparent as the book will pause at times and reference historical moments of their own all throughout. The result is an incredibly believable world of tangible characters that you really care about. If you know me and what I usually read...or lack thereof, you will know that I am a very action driven kind of person and descriptions usually bore me and make me want to skip pages or not read at all. However, this is not the case with LOTR. Tolkein has created a world so rich and majestic that it transcends the awkward barrier of writing descriptions that bore. I am one that has always had this book on my list of books to read and now I wish that I had read it SOONER. To those who say, "I have already watched the movie there is no point to read the book now," I whole heartedly disagree. The book fills in many of the gaps that the movie could not, due to Hollywood's time constraints (because let's face it, we wouldn't watch a single movie that was over 4 hours long). If there were ever times in the movie that you were thinking to yourself, what? how did that happen? where did that come from? I don't think they explained that too well... Then please read the book and it only enriches the movie. A definite 5/5!!!
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