The Lord of the Rings

• “Tolkien's Middle-earth gleams with the light of an ancient hope: peace between peoples, and with nature, and before the unknown.”

• “Among the greatest works of imaginative fiction of the mid-20th century.”

• “As we read we find ourselves sharing [the characters'] burden; when we have finished, we return to our own life not relaxed but fortified.”

• “The heroes of the books I read, The Lord of the Rings and the Foundation series, always felt a duty to save the world.”

• “Without the challenge of the Dark Power, Frodo, Gandalf, and Galadriel would not have grown. We develop only by going against opposition and facing our shadow. All the characters who won... found their key to the path to the heart of the universe by looking inward, to the God within, which unlocks all mysteries.”

• “Now, how is it that these long-winded volumes of what looks to this reviewer like balderdash have elicited such tributes as those above? The answer is, I believe, that certain people – especially, perhaps, in Britain – have a lifelong appetite for juvenile trash.”

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Overview

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The Lord of the Rings across IJR

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