The Fellowship of the Ring

I struggled a lot with what to rate this book. On the one hand, it's a classic and I have loved it since I was a teenager. On the other hand, on this read-through, I felt like I had jumped in to the middle of a series rather than the first book. There were so many more ancient-historical references (I'm talking Silmarillion old) than I remembered. I felt like it distracted from the characters and made it hard to read.

Age range: 15+
Read with a dictionary in hand, and a willingness to just blow past things you don't understand.