The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings (Lord of the Rings, Part I)

"The first thing that one asks of an adventure story is that the adventure should be various and exciting; in this respect Mr. Tolkien's invention is unflagging, and, on the primitive level of wanting to know what happens next, 'The Fellowship of the Ring' is a least as good as 'The Thirty-Nine Steps'....Mr. Tolkien is fortunate in possessing an amazing gift for naming and a wonderfully exact eye for description....Lastly, if one is to take a tale of this kind seriously, one must feel that, however superficially unlike the world we live in its characters and events may be, it nevertheless holds up the mirror to the only nature we know, our own; in this, too, Mr Tolkien has succeeded superbly....No fiction I have read in the last five years has given me more joy than 'The Fellowship of the Ring.'"J.R.R. Tolkien is the author of 'The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings (Lord of the Rings, Part I)', published 1988 under ISBN 9780395489314 and ISBN 0395489318.