The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of the Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien's three-volume epic, is set in the imaginary world of Middle-earth - home to many strange beings, and most notably hobbits, a peace-loving "little people," cheerful and shy. Since its original British publication in 1954-55, the saga has entranced readers of all ages. It is at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale. Critic Michael Straight has hailed it as one of the "very few works of genius in recent literature." Middle-earth is a world receptive to poets, scholars, children, and all other people of good will. Donald Barr has described it as "a scrubbed morning world, and a ringing nightmare world...especially sunlit, and shadowed by perils very fundamental, of a peculiarly uncompounded darkness." The story of ths world is one of high and heroic adventure. Barr compared it to Beowulf, C.S. Lewis to Orlando Furioso, W.H. Auden to The Thirty-nine Steps. In fact the saga is sui generis - a triumph of imagination which springs to life within its own framework and on its own terms.

Author: J. R. R. Tolkien
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 03/03/1988
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.2lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.50w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9780395489314
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.1
Point Value: 29
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 737 / Fellowship of the Ring


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 02/15/1992 pg. 1101

About the Author
Tolkien, J. R. R.: - J.R.R. TOLKIEN (1892-1973) is the creator of Middle-earth and author of such classic and extraordinary works of fiction as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. His books have been translated into more than fifty languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide.