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I love these books so much. It is the best trilogy I have ever read. The best books I have ever period. The three books are the Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King. It was written by J.R.R. Tolkien. Has anyone else read these? I sure hope so!


I would have written more, and in a little more logical fashion, but I have to go.

I loved them. You have to put The Hobbit in there, too. I also think Tom Bombadil should have been in the movies.

Lord of the rings is a classic and to me, basicly started the fantasy genre.

As far as I know Tolkien made Elves and recreated Dwarves. I have read the books many times over, however now that I read more modern writing I find it hard to go through the book.

Currently, I'm reading Harshini by Jenifer Fallon, which is quite far from the style of writing that Tolkien started.

In the end, he's a good writer and I strive to be like him.

I read it back when I was about 12 or so, a bit over my head for my age but I had the movies to help me out with the older or bigger words at the time. Yes, I agree, that Tom Bombadil should have been put in the movies, but you have to remember that the shortest movie was at least 2 hours long without him. So from the views of the film maker Tom, sadly, wasn't nessasary, Dispite all his amazing glory.

I really adore The Lord of the Rings! I did a research paper about J.R.R. Tolkien for school last year and some of the facts you can find about him are fantastic (and you know if a research paper doesn't turn you off something it must be really amazing). The Hobbit was excellent as well, and now I am staring to delve into The Simillarion; the stories collected in that are superb as well.

Tom Bombadil was definitely something they should have included in the movie as a character, It was not included for two main reasons.
1st. The Tom Bombadil history contributes too little to the main course of the story.
2nd. Tom Bombadil is by far too powerful to be troubled by trivial things, as he saw it, like the Ring of Power. He was able to take it, master it and give it back without even being tempted by it.

Now, Tom's words were included in many parts of the movie only that his words were told by Gandalf and Treebear mostly.

Now, I do agree the Hobbit should've been included but I venture to go further; The Lost Tales and the Silmarillion are fine pieces of art even though they're a hard to read.

stare Except...It's. Not. A. Trilogy. The "Note on the Text" begins, and I quote:

The Lord of the Rings is often erroneously called a trilogy, when it is in fact a single novel,...

Sorry, it's a pet peeve of mine.

But yes, I love the books. I re-read them every year.

You should see the extended edition; it's much better.

It is one book, in that it only has one storyline. The narrative was divided into six parts, each called books, which were then published in three volumes.