Lord of the Rings

One to Bind Them All

Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

December 6, 2017 by sabian30 Leave a Comment

Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (1988) – There are several books on my shelves that I must reread every couple years because I miss them. The Lord of the Rings is one of them (along with Dune, Harry Potter, and the Modesty Blaise books). I guess I originally read it in the seventies and have reread it consistently through the years. Although I’ll try not to compare the book with the movie, after you’ve seen Viggo and Elijah as Aragorn and Frodo, it’s difficult to see them as anyone else. While there are things in the movies that […]

12/6/2017 sabian30's CBR9 Review No:41 |

A theology master class in Tolkien. Just my style.

The Battle for Middle-Earth by Fleming Rutledge

August 12, 2017 by bonnie Leave a Comment

As a kid, I grew up with C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, but I missed out on The Lord of the Rings until much later. Several of my classmates in high school were huge Tolkien fans, and I was curious enough to give him a try once I graduated. I read The Hobbit between high school and college, and with the last film coming out, I spent the first semester of my freshman year in college reading The Lord of the Rings books in preparation for marathoning the films with my sister over Christmas break. It’s been a love […]

8/12/2017 bonnie's CBR9 Review No:96 |

“The burned hand teaches best.”

The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

November 27, 2015 by Halbs 2 Comments

This is is my second review of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings series. You can find my review of The Fellowship of the Ring here. But so our path is laid.’ ‘Yes, that’s so,’ said Sam. ‘And we shouldn’t be here at all, if we’d known more about it before we started. But I suppose it’s often that way. The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo: adventures, as I used to call them. I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out and looked for, because they wanted them, […]

11/27/2015 Halbs's CBR7 Review No:43 |

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

August 24, 2015 by Halbs 1 Comment

Until earlier this month, I never read The Hobbit or the Lord of the Rings series. Additionally, I have not seen all of the movies. There is a lot to love in Fellowship. Readers of The Hobbit will appreciate visiting Bilbo, Gandalf, Elrond, and the Shire again. (If you are like me, you will also continue to hate those meddlesome Sackville-Bagginses. What a greedy, hot mess they are!) The world that Tolkien created is so real and fun that spending time there feels like a vacation to me. The Shire is a vacation destination! It’s good to spend time in […]

8/24/2015 Halbs's CBR7 Review No:30 |

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