Ethan Clark’s Reviews > The Fellowship of the Ring > Status Update

Finished. I will review it when I have read all 3. For now I will say that Tolkeins world is deep and lived in.

Also, I'll add, I read it wrong at first and needed to adjust. You dont read this as a novel, you read it to enter into a world and this happens to be one story within it. Not for everyone.

Finally, there is great stuff here about friendship, hospitality, temptation, racism, royalty, love, and dominion.

Ill say it.
Overrated and boring so far. Hope it gets better (I expect it will).

That was chunky. But really good. Now we are moving on the story

Travel log day 97: still not there yet

Just read about Tom Bombadil. So freaking good. Glorious truths.

Sam reflecting on meeting the Elves:

"They seem a bit above my likes and dislikes, so to speak," answered Sam slowly. "It don't seem to matter what I think about them. They are quite different from what I expected — so old and young, and so gay and sad, as it were."