I've read this trilogy 3 times and have loved the movies. It never grows old! I wouldn't mind checking this book out too!

The detail included was everything that I was looking for. Fascinating

boring as fuck

it was good but it was to long

*more slobbering* Ugh, these books are SO beautiful!!!!!! *hisses* My Preeeecious!!!

What I loved about this book are the additional insights into lore and history. I dig concept art like there's no tomorrow, and this book is crammed with photos and paintings. I spent a lot of my childhood prong over these delicious details and memorizing every thing. naturally, it's all forgotten now, but this book leaves a warm glow on my memory. :)

Being a huge Lord of the Rings nerd, having written my senior college Capstone on the linguistic merits of Quenya and Sindarin Elvish, I think I'm pretty qualified to rate this book in accuracy. All in all, it made detailed reference to the Silmarillion lineages of Gil-Galad and Elendil of the Numenorean line really well. It mentioned the sundering of many nations existing only in the Silmarillion and known only to the avid LotR "scholar".
However, much of this was undermined by the fact that there were consistent references to what happened solely in the movies. For example, the author makes reference to Arwen coming to the Hobbits' aid, when she did no such thing in the original source material, and there was no reference of Glorfindel. No reference to Tom Bombadil, either in that regard. Many grammatical errors ensued as well, which annoyed me. It makes the author sound like he hasn't read any of the books, but rather tried to listen to a friend who did all the research. Author cannot correctly differentiate between "Rohan" and "The Rohirrim", often saying "The Rohan", or even things like "The Barad-dur."
My favorite part about this book though was that despite having a lack of knowledge of the original book's lore, Smith has an in-depth knowledge of smithing and leather crafting, giving extravagant and well detailed descriptions of what went into the armor described in the books and represented in the films. That alone is why you pick this book up.

Excelente!!! Reseña de armas y armaduras de elfos, hombres, enanos, orcos y otras bestias de Mordor. Gran guia sobre las batallas.

A glossy, beautiful coffee table book for you LOTR fans.

This is very adventures book. I am very pleased by reading this type of book. Here I found a ring which gives me the real power of dark magic. So I suggested all the users please don't touch the ring but also read the book.

Excellent reference material! As a fiction/fantasy author, the weapons/armor index in the back plus the charts of the different ranges of various weapons is an excellent resource.

I love Lord of the rings