This is my third review of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings Trilogy. You can find my review of Fellowship of the Ring here and The Two Towers here. The Hobbit is here. This review is semi-spoilery in terms of tone of the conclusion of the series, but vague. As previously mentioned in the Two Towers review, one of my favorite things about Tolkien’s series is that stakes are high for everyone involved. The bad guys are bad and a lot of them die, but the […]
“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
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 […]