Blizzard Bag 2

The book I chose for my Fantasy book club was The Fellowship of The Ring, it is by J.R.R. Tolkien. This book is split into two minor books of 280 pages each. I decided to do this book because I had seen the movies and The Hobbit came out this past year and wanted to give the books a try. If you don’t know what the Lord of The Rings Trilogy is about then I will give you a brief summary. In The Fellowship of the Book the main character Frodo is staying in his super rich Uncle’s house. His uncle Bilbo disappeared 61 years ago and came back with mass amounts of treasure which is what they were surviving on. They set you in a time where Bilbo’s and Frodo’s birthday party are coming up soon and will be the day that Bilbo will leave to go East permanently. Since Hobbits love parties everyone gets excited and Gandalf comes to wish Bilbo goodbye and talk about the secret powerful ring Bilbo has. When the party is about to close Bilbo talks about how he is to go away and in front of everyone’s eyes he disappears from thin air. Gandalf is waiting for Bilbo inside his home and they talk about this ring which has made Bilbo addicted to it. Gandalf scares Bilbo into giving the ring to his heir Frodo before he leaves forever. When Bilbo leaves Frodo is left with a ring and Gandalf tells him the danger of the powerful ring. My book then goes on to tell of Frodo’s journey trying to escape the evil powers and how he does this. I think the book isn’t bad but I don’t like how Tolkien narrates the story and makes it go on forever by describing everything they see to the last crack on it. The action in the book is quick and lame because Tolkien chews up all the time focusing on describing things instead of focusing on important things like plot and character development. I think this book could be better if he focused on more of the elements I find valuable in a book. Not to totally rip on Tolkien he uses amazing verbs and adjectives throughout the book.