Sunday, September 30, 2007

J.R.R. Tolkien's Fellowship of the Ring







J.R.R. Tolkien's Fellowship of the Ring
Begin: 09/22/07
End: 09/30/07
Quality: Ten out of Ten.
Reason: Reading Plan.
Genre: Fiction. Novel. Fantasy. Epic. Classic.
Original Language: English.
Date of Publication: 1954.
Fog Index: 8.1/82% are harder
Flesch Index: 78.2/94% are harder
Flesch-Kincaid Index: 6.2/81% are harder
Complex Words: 5%/91% have more.
Number: Countless.
Synopsis: Frodo leaves his home in the shire on Gandalf's order due to his possesion of the Ring which is being hunted by the servants of Sauron. He makes it to Rivendale and a great council is held to decide what to do with it. Nine people are chosen to try and take the Ring to Mount Doom to destroy the ring. Adventure ensues.
Thoughts: God, I forgot how much I loved this book. Really. It's been about two years or something like that. It's so much richer and more magestic than the movies. The problem is that I've watched the movies quiet a number of times in between readings and it has a tendency to take over but the book is so bad ass. It's literature. It's not some cheesy fantasy novel. It's a novel with universal themes and things to say.

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