Lord Of The Rings - Review (Does It Hold Up?)

Getting into the Shire for the first time, it feels very quaint. It can feel almost like cute. But by the end of The Lord of the Rings, the feel of the words, the impact of the story is entirely different.

Aside from, yeah, you need to be someone who really likes big world building and not mind a lot of the tropes that were popular back in the day, it's still one of the best reads the genre has to offer. There's communication issues, but I just don't understand people who say it's unreadable.

There's really no writing of action between the orcs and the party in book one, aside from mentioning the fact that they are in the area. And in the Two Towers, Boromir is dead by page two.