Lord Of The Rings.
By JRR Tolkien
Review By Andrew Parrish

(Editor's Note: Andrew did this review at the editor's request. Reading has not been a favorite activity for Andrew but this series has sparked his interest in reading as well as in story telling. He has taken to developing his own stories and as a result has become a more fluent reader and speller in a relatively short period of time. This review is here as testiment to the fact that when you find the right literature, that boys will learn to love to read.)

  The reasons I like the books:

• I like them because they are fun to read if you like mystical properties.
• They are full of action and devotion to one another.

Now, on to the story. "When Mr. Bilbo baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnifigance, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton." This is the first sentence in "The Fellowship of the Ring" which is the first book of the three. The books in chronological order are: "The Fellowship of the Ring", "The Two Towers" and "The Return of the King" and there is "The Hobbit" which happens before the three.

The moral standards of the books are very good, they teach self reliance and self sacrifice and they teach you to keep holding onto hope, that there is some good in this world. It also teaches you to trust in your true friends, if you do not you will find yourself all alone. The summary of the story is that Frodo, nephew of Bilbo has to take the one ring of power to Mordor, the Shadow lands. To help him in his task is the fellowship. The fellowship gets broken up by the "Ur-Kie" some sort of monsters and one of the fellowship dies in the fight. Frodo and Sam continue on to Mordor alone. In "The Two Towers" Frodo and Sam are trying to get to Mordor and are trying to get through the maze of rocks while the remainder of the fellowship is chasing the "Ur-Kie" that have kidnapped two hobbits that were part of the original fellowship. It is during this part of the story that the hobbits meet tree beard and the Ents that help to defeat the evil wizzard . The final book "Return of the King" follows Frodo and Sam into Mordor and the distruction of the ring while Aragorn leads an army to defeat the army of Saron, the evil lord and Aragorn is crowned king of men. When they all return home they . . . well you will have to read the books to find out.