Reviews for The lord of the rings

The average rating for The lord of the rings based on 2 reviews is 1.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-10-01 00:00:00 Susan Fults Meh. It wasn't a terrible read. But while it added some to my understanding of Lord of the Rings, it didn't add much. I think the main issue is that Chance is trying to push LotR into some Marxist/political paradigm when that really isn't the paradigm most natural to LotR. Yes, you can draw some parallels there, and Chance does that decently. But drawing parallels does not mean you've captured the essence of the story, and on that front, Chance overall failed. The best part of the book was the epilogue where Chance drew out all the repetition and parallels built into the work. I liked that a fair bit. But that was the only real useful part here. Rating: 1.5-2 Stars (Poor).

Review # 2 was written on 2014-06-11 00:00:00 Michael Vaughn Who could imagine it's possible to write a chapter titled "'Queer' Hobbits" without even broaching the topic of homosexuality, esp. in a book that abundantly cites Foucault? Even for Tolkien scholarship, this is pretty bad.