Amazon.com.au:Customer reviews: The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings, Book 1

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Beautiful quality hardback edition

Reviewed in Australia on 12 July 2021

Beautifully printed and bound. Dark red cloth hardback cover with illustrated sleeve. In my opinion, the printing and typesetting are very attractive, with the chapter titles in red ink to match the cover. The font is both attractive and optimally legible. The paper feels like it’s good quality; slightly thicker than your standard paperback and very clean and white. It feels lovely on your fingers. The illustrations are beautiful and in full colour. Includes a Bible-style bookmark string (also red). I believe it is worth spending a little bit more for a nice illustrated, hardback book over the paperback - I think it really enhances the experience of reading from a physical book (as many of us who still enjoy physical books do it for a better experience than the cheaper and more convenient ebooks). I definitely recommend this edition if you are going looking to buy the individual volumes one by one (rather than all three in a single book or a box set).

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Bede V Heather

The Streaming licence on this item has expired. I Could not access it.

Reviewed in Australia on 28 October 2020

The poor service of Amazon in accepting my money for this item when it could not be accessed

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David

Reasonably priced but the maps are poor quality

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 May 2021

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Obviously the novel speaks for itself. My comment is related to this particular printed copy. The maps are printed in a very low resolution, they are pixelated, or whatever the equivalent is for this printing process. This is most problematic for the first map of the series, it’s virtually illegible. This is true for the Two Towers and Return of the King in this publishers series. That being said, the maps aren’t too important and if you are price sensitive, I’d recommend them.

Enca

The cover was damaged

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 June 2021

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This is a beautiful edition and I bought it for a present. It’s a shame that the book sleeve as damaged as I do not have the time to return it and order it again!

John

Font too uncomfortable to read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 December 2021

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The font size and spacing between lines is too small and uncomfortable to read. The cover also came a bit damaged. Not pleased by it. Decided to return.

Kayleigh

I had finished The Hobbit and enjoy all the movies

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 July 2014

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I had finished The Hobbit and enjoy all the movies, so I wanted to read The Lord of the Rings. I was disappointed that I got a different cover to the one displayed, because I had bought Two Towers and Return of the King with the displayed edition covers. On top of that I didn't enjoy all the gory details that took up 30 pages before the actual story began, and then I didn't enjoy the actual story as I found it incredibly slow going and difficult to understand.

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JassyP

Damaged outer cover

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 June 2021

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Daughter needed this for a prize giving at school and was ordered due to next day delivery. Unfortunately, it arrived with the sleeve cover in poor state, torn and tattered! It was not in good condition, though book appears fine apart from the odd page that is of a different quality from majority.