A review by isabellarobinson7
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
5.0
∞ read: 17/09/21 - 04/10/21
Rating: 7 stars
I did an oopsie. But it was a very fun oopsie. I really enjoyed it. So what if I have already read The Lord of the Rings this year, I read it in the split editions, and they are very different. Ok, they're not and we all know that. Well, earlier this year I read it along with the Rob Inglis audiobooks, which were great, I'm not knocking them, they are fantastic in their own right (I spent the last five minutes trying to find an adjective to describe them. I decided to follow the Ninth Doctor and use "fantastic"), but they don't match the Andy Serkis ones that just came out!! (You can really see the Gollum/Sméagol sides of my brain conversing there.) I was fortunate enough to be able to exchange my Inglis audiobooks for the new Serkis ones, but I was fully prepared to purchase the new narration on top of the old one and just have two editions (I have six, soon to be seven, physical copies of The Lord of the Rings, I don't think having too many Tolkiens is ever something I am going to worry about) and if that is a situation you happen to find yourself in, in my biased opinion, I 100% recommend going for it. Who cares if you have two (well, six) audios of the same book? I can speak from experience, the Andy Serkis narration is absolutely worth it. They are flawless.
Well, almost flawless. There was a slight mishap with one of the chapter titles, but I just laughed when I saw it. A chapter in The Two Towers required the letter "í" for the word Palantír, but all that showed up was the code for that letter. So it read: Chapter 11: The Palant& #x00CD;R (this is the third time I am explaining this because I keep getting too complicated and jargony).
Ok done. I have come to accept that I will never be able to write a cohesive review of The Lord of the Rings, so this is all you are getting.
∞ read: 24/09/20 - 28/09/20
Rating: 5 million bajillion stars
Reasons AGAINST rereading The Lord of the Rings:
- I had two other high fantasies on the go (Malice and Promise of Blood) and didn't need a third
- I was already rereading The Wheel of Time
- I had already reread The Return of the King this year
- I had already reread The Hobbit this year
- I should probably reread The Silmarillion because I had only read it once and barely understood it then
- I needed to start The History of Middle-earth and there is a lot of those and I haven't read them yet
- Most people reread The Lord of the Rings during the autumn or winter, but it is spring where I live
Things I did to STOP myself rereading The Lord of the Rings:
- Continue my Wheel of Time reread because at least I've only read the series once
- Start The Book of Lost Tales, Part 1 (the first book of the History)
- Read a biography of Tolkien
Reasons FOR rereading The Lord of the Rings:
- I bought a fourth set and they were pretty
- It was 1:00 am in the morning and I wanted to
What I did:
- Reread The Lord of the Rings
That's it. That's the review.
Rating: 7 stars
I did an oopsie. But it was a very fun oopsie. I really enjoyed it. So what if I have already read The Lord of the Rings this year, I read it in the split editions, and they are very different. Ok, they're not and we all know that. Well, earlier this year I read it along with the Rob Inglis audiobooks, which were great, I'm not knocking them, they are fantastic in their own right (I spent the last five minutes trying to find an adjective to describe them. I decided to follow the Ninth Doctor and use "fantastic"), but they don't match the Andy Serkis ones that just came out!! (You can really see the Gollum/Sméagol sides of my brain conversing there.) I was fortunate enough to be able to exchange my Inglis audiobooks for the new Serkis ones, but I was fully prepared to purchase the new narration on top of the old one and just have two editions (I have six, soon to be seven, physical copies of The Lord of the Rings, I don't think having too many Tolkiens is ever something I am going to worry about) and if that is a situation you happen to find yourself in, in my biased opinion, I 100% recommend going for it. Who cares if you have two (well, six) audios of the same book? I can speak from experience, the Andy Serkis narration is absolutely worth it. They are flawless.
Well, almost flawless. There was a slight mishap with one of the chapter titles, but I just laughed when I saw it. A chapter in The Two Towers required the letter "í" for the word Palantír, but all that showed up was the code for that letter. So it read: Chapter 11: The Palant& #x00CD;R (this is the third time I am explaining this because I keep getting too complicated and jargony).
Ok done. I have come to accept that I will never be able to write a cohesive review of The Lord of the Rings, so this is all you are getting.
∞ read: 24/09/20 - 28/09/20
Rating: 5 million bajillion stars
Reasons AGAINST rereading The Lord of the Rings:
- I had two other high fantasies on the go (Malice and Promise of Blood) and didn't need a third
- I was already rereading The Wheel of Time
- I had already reread The Return of the King this year
- I had already reread The Hobbit this year
- I should probably reread The Silmarillion because I had only read it once and barely understood it then
- I needed to start The History of Middle-earth and there is a lot of those and I haven't read them yet
- Most people reread The Lord of the Rings during the autumn or winter, but it is spring where I live
Things I did to STOP myself rereading The Lord of the Rings:
- Continue my Wheel of Time reread because at least I've only read the series once
- Start The Book of Lost Tales, Part 1 (the first book of the History)
- Read a biography of Tolkien
Reasons FOR rereading The Lord of the Rings:
- I bought a fourth set and they were pretty
- It was 1:00 am in the morning and I wanted to
What I did:
- Reread The Lord of the Rings
That's it. That's the review.