Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

10 reviews

rachelunabridged's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Misogyny, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death

i_write_on_occasion's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Very good. A satisfying and emotional conclusion to a great series

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: Slavery

bearystarry's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I love everything about the fellowship. If you’re not crying buckets of tears at the end of this book, you must be a very different sort of person to me. God… and such a beautiful, hopeful ending it is as well!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racism, Slavery, and Stalking

Minor: Fatphobia and Sexism

madamenovelist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Xenophobia

judassilver's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Moderate: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gore, and Racial slurs

Minor: Animal death, Fatphobia, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

bexi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

This is probably the best book from the trilogly (yes I know it's technically one book, please don't come for me Tolkein stans). 

Might bump this up to 4.5 stars later, I still can't make up my mind 😅

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Death, Misogyny, Suicide, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death and Slavery

orchidlilly's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Racism, Sexism, Abandonment, and Classism

johannarose's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

So, I switched over to an audiobook version when I got about 100 or so pages into the irl book version and just couldn’t get through it. 

Moving through the audio version, I still felt like it was quite a slog, especially the ending, which just… Kept… Going… 

I honestly felt sort of disappointed by this book, especially because I am quite fond of the rest of the series and enjoyed reading them quite a lot. I just found this one to be way too dense for my own taste. Maybe it’s because I ended up listening to the unabridged version, because it was the only one available at my online library app 🤷🏼 

In any case, not my favourite book in the series, and a bit of a let down. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and War

Moderate: Fatphobia and Suicide

Minor: Animal death

journeythroughthechapters's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

Thoughts
I feel like I'm being harsh with this rating but I literally only really enjoyed the last 3 chapters. Which was a surprise and different from the movie.

My biggest issue with the start was the pacing. I felt like there plot could have been told in one chapter but instead the story just went on and on.

Sam is 1000%%% the best character in this series and Frodo does not deserve him.

The rest of the fellowships plots I feel were supposed to get their shining moments but I was just bored.

There was war and politics but not good politics because there wasn't enough depth to care.

I honestly just read this so the series could be done. It's not my favourite. I can see it's value but it's not for me. And that's okay. 

Representation
N/A

Content Warning
War, Death, Death of Animals, Decapitation, Suicide 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Suicide, and War

starlessnights's review against another edition

1.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Violence, Grief, Murder, and War