Name: In de ban van de ring
ISBN: 9789027462718

J.R.R. Tolkien

Max Schuchart

De langdurige avontuurlijke expeditie van de Hobbits van Gouw, in de klassieke trilogie van de Engelse taalkundige (1892-1973).

In de ban van de ring

Pia Sophia

[read in Dutch]

Growing up, I never really had much interest for The Lord of the Rings. Now, at 23, I can see how I've missed out! I have seen the movies for the first time ever last year, and just now finished the book. Everything is so detailed and sharply written that I could see everything before me ever so vividly. As if I were there myself!

At times I felt the story was chugging along a little too slowly for my taste and I found myself counting the pages until the next chapter. But that all changed when reading The Return of the King. I loved the third volume and it really felt that it went a lot quicker than the second volume--a little like the beginning of Fellowship of the Ring (I also really liked the pace of that one!).

My copy provides around 150 pages of additional information: different kings' heritage lines, family trees of the Baggins' family and others, but also a lengthy explanation on the different languages, amongst other things! I liked reading more about the characters in the story (Arwen and Aragorn, Sam,...) but I was less interested in the history of things that weren't talked about before.

All in all, I really liked this! Bye for now, I'm off to read The Hobbit.

In de ban van de ring

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