Title: The Lord of the Rings
Review: First Tolkien, a linguist, created a language. Then he created a world for that language. The result is one of the seminal works of 20th century literature. This year, the epic has finally and wonderfully been translated to film. I predict a sudden and huge demand for the books, and envy those who will be coming to the written work for the first time. The full, three-dimensional and all-absorbing emersion in Middle Earth is only fully realized with the first reading- I wish I could read it again for the first time. But the work is so textured and rich that subsequent readings, no matter how frequent, can always mine a new detail or nuance previously missed.
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