Like all books of this magnitude, Tolkien’s Fellowship of the Ring is definitely one every reviewer probably ponders on how to do justice to after reading. It’s no easy feat, I must tell you, but here I am trying to do justice to this classic.
“Now at last we must take a hard road, a road unforseen. There lies our hope, if hope it to be. To walk into peril – to Modor. We must send the Ring to the Fire”
Although Fellowship of the Ring presents ambitious writing with second to none world building by a very talented author, I will say that the movie makes you appreciate this book 100% (yes, Peter Jackson takes some artistic liberties, but after reading this book, I’m actually in awe that someone could extract parts from this book and still make it seem whole). Visualizing Moria, Mirkwood, Isengard, and Orcs, amongst other things, makes your reading experience ten times better, in my opinion.
Similarly, unlike most classics, Fellowship of the Ring is surprisingly easy to understand. There aren’t unnecessarily tedious words for you to sift through.
That being said, a considerable amount of this book requires patience. Honestly, for some reason, I expected everything to move fast, fast, fast (shrug* blame the movie), but this plot takes time to cook. If you go in with this mindset, I guarantee you won’t find it as tiring as I initially did.
However, it may prove one must tread the path that needs chooses
In conclusion, leave all your preconceptions of this book behind. Leave what you watched in the movie behind (although it was beyond enjoyable to compare the book and movie versions to see all the differences) and enjoy this fantastic gem of literature Tolkien has blessed the literary world with.
You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin- to the bitter end…
