Full detailed account of the craftsmanship and training behind the weapons and warfare of the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. A lot of hard work and creativity by some dedicated people went into the realism from books to movies.

here's why this book only gets three stars: it focuses way too much on just the movies. here's why it doesn't get two stars: there is still some pretty amazing information going on here, as well as some great original illustrations.

A great read for me...

Another fun guide! Paging through, it looked like it had some pictures of people, and a lot of specific weapons and armor. Also some background story stuff. Sadly, I didn't have nearly enough time to even really begin it, but it's one that I will buy if possible. :)

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Please note that this is a companion to the MOVIES, not the book.
It's a great item to have for LOTR fans. The photos are beautiful; the weapons, armours, etc, are shown in details.
I loved it.

Lo amo

Full of fun facts weapons, armor, and even the species of LOTR!

This book is actually fantastic. It's a must read for all of us that love living in Middle Earth.

I own quite a few books like this, scaled a bit bigger than printer paper, full-color, lavishly illustrated. Many of them are Star Wars books, but the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies went down a similar path and released books detailing the production of the films - props, costumes, and so on - and detailing races or cultures or the like based on what they carried or how they dressed. Some of them focus on geography (as this one too peaks in to), but most are about people and things.

So, in comparison to all of the others like it, how does Weapons and Warfare rate? The pictures are beautiful and the essays contain information that even the most diehard Tolkien fan will learn something from.

But this particular book is a bit stilted in its presentation because it tries to be a work of history, the conceit being that the events of the LOTR happened in the past and the book shows various artifacts and reconstructs various societal and political structures based on archeological evidence. So, for example when they show the rings of power they are "replicas" of the rings. When a prop is shown it is sometimes described as a re-creation, as if someone had studied the past and this was the best they could come up with. All of this is sort of layered on, as if someone had the thought that some of these models look like models, some props like props, and maybe this is the reason why. It's all a bit unnecessary and the book lost a star from me because of it.

Overall though a fan of the books or movies will find a lot to like here.

Recommended, with some reservations.

I've been fortunate to visit the Weta Workshops and some of the Peter Jackson film sets in person, and boy are they amazing. Holy heck it's like a pilgrim going to the most holiest of high places. Partner even let me buy a weapon from the forges but it was too annoying trying to bring it home so we ditched that idea, to this day slightly sad, dwarven steel would have looked glorious hanging above the mantlepiece.

awesome pictures of the weapons and armor.