"An extraordinary book. It deals with a stupendous theme. It
leads through a succession of strange and astonishing episodes, some
of them magnificent, in a region where everything is invented, forest,
moor, river, wilderness, town, and the races that inhabit them." The Observer (UK)
"To have created so enthralling an epic-romance, with its own
mythology, with such diversity of scene and character, such imaginative
invention and description, and such supernatural meaning underlying
the wealth of incident, is a most remarkable feat." The Guardian (UK)
"A story magnificently told, with every kind of colour and
movement and greatness" New Statesman Magazine (UK)
"Tolkien was a storyteller of genius" Literary Review (UK)
"Among the greatest works of imaginative fiction of the twentieth
century. If it is no more than entertainment, we have seldom been
entertained so well. The book presents us with the richest profusion
of new lands and new creatures, from the beauty of Lothlórien to the
horror of Mordor, adventures to hold us spell-bound, and words of
beauty and evocation to bring all vividly before us." Sunday Telegraph (UK)
"One of the most remarkable works of liteature in our, or any time."
Bernard Levin
"No fiction I have read in the last five years has given me more joy."
W. H. Auden
"Like lightning from a clear sky...heroic romance,gorgeous, eloquent and unashamed."
C. S. Lewis
