Lord Of The Rings- Part One

The Fellowship of the Ring. The epic first installment of the three book Lord Of The Rings. Personally, I think the story is completly and absolutley (and every other word you can think of) genius. Yet, since it took me half a year to read, it moves very slowly. The action in the story is more implied than actually written out, which really bums me because in the movies the action was so great. Speaking of the movies, the books are so different than them in many many ways. The most significant part in the book that they altogether skipped in the movie was the part with good ol' Tom Bombadil. Actually, that was my favorite part of the whole book. Also, Toilken does an amazing job describing...pretty much everything there is to know. If a character sees a leaf, Toilken describes it with unpresidented amout of detail and beautiful words and phrases. Though this slows down the reading process and sometimes makes reading the book boring, it gives the reader a glimpse into the very broad world of detail. This book truly is a masterpeice and everybody should definatly read this novel.