Title: Different than anything you've read.
Review: Definitely an outstanding set of books, you expect a great epic, and you get it. In a way. The hero is really not so, but really an anti-hero, a humble creature driven by fate? to a grand destiny. His greatest assets are his luck, and his good feelings. Surrounded by war and violence he never kills anybody and avoids hurting the creature that would kill him if given a chance. Frodo (and for the case so do Bilbo and Sam) is not an "epic" hero, but a real flesh and bone hero. I have read TH & LoTR about three or four times and have allways discovered something different. Don't read it if you expect fast-paced action, or hate intricate descriptions. Read if you don't consider time spent reading as wasted.
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