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The Art of The Fellowship of the Ring is one of the three art books for The Lord of the Rings. The other two being The Art of the Two Towers and The Art of the Return of the King. Also available in one condensed edition of these three art books is The Art of the Lord of the Rings.

The review you read here will be roughly the same as the ones for other books.

The three volume collects over 500 images each, consisting pencils sketches, paintings and sculptures. These are the art from conceptual to execution stage. The principal designers are Alan Lee, Paul Lasaine, John Howe, Grant Major, Richard Taylor (head of Weta Workshop) and Nigila Dickson among other talented artists. A full list of credits is provided.

The books focus on the set and environment designs of the various Middle-earth locations, including character and creature designs from the region. While there are also weapon designs, you should turn to The Lord of the Rings Weapons and Warfare for more comprehensive coverage.

The commentary and depth of the books are great. There are captions for every sketch and illustration provided, both from the artists and Gary Russell. These includes the various iterations from the discarded to the final designs used in the movies. The artists talk about the English and European influence on their sets and architecture, compositing photos and matte painting, techniques used to create the rich and seemingly authentic world, costume designs and other elements of the film.

The books provide a great insight into the amount of art and details required to produce a movie — three actually — of such massive scale. What you don't see in this book is talk on the production aspect, which is left to The Making of the Movie Trilogy and The Lord of the Rings Official Movie Guide.

The Art of the Lord of the Rings art book series is a great resource for fans as well as fantasy artists.

I was surprised to find out that this book has received a rating of 4.6. The plot is fantastic, no doubt about that; however, the amount of description given greatly deterred me from reading the book with as much enthusiasm as I saw the movie with, later. The monotonous writing style became tedious after a while leading me to skim over entire paragraphs. This is one of the very few examples of the movie being better than the book it's based on.

Gandalf is amazing,
You sall not past
Vs the balrog of moria

From my perpective this plot is definitely good.

Always a masterpiece

Inspired my lifelong love of fantasy.

THERE SHOULD BE MORE BOOKS LIKE THIS

Theme: If you like reading about Middle Ages fantasy then you will like this book. Theme of this book that people should stand together to face dangers.


Summary: Little hobbit Frodo seized the magical ring from his uncle, but he must destroy it. Otherwise, “The Enemy” will use it to capture the world. In this book Frodo began his journey to the place where it is possible to melt the ring. Frodo passed dark, magical forest with three friends. In the village not far away from the forest they met mysterious man who brought them to the save city where four other people from different countries and species volunteered to help Frodo. They passed through an ancient mine where they fought with Barlog ( fire monster ) and orcs, but that was not the end of their troubles. They met a lot of other dangers on their way.


Setting: Main events happened between June, 1408 and December, 1409 ( events in all books in a serie lays within these dates ). Most of the people in the squad are cultured and educated warriors. Main heroes travelled through many cities, villages, and countries on the continent called Middle-Earth in the Earth like world known as Arda.


Favorite
Quote: “The Dwarves tell no tale; but even as mithril was the foundation of their wealth, so also it was their destruction; they delved too greedily and too deep, and disturbed that from which they fled, Durin’s Bane.”


Analyze
Quote: This quote reminded me about how greed could cause fateful events. Dwarves were greed. Delving for expansive metal they released ancient demon that killed all of them. In a real world many people make questionable decisions in order to become rich, and these decisions bring them a lot of problems.


Personal
Connections: This book relate to me because I overcame fear like Frodo when he agreed to go to the dangerous journey. I overcame fear of speaking foreign language with foreign people. This book is relate to everybody because it shows how hobbits feel fear just like everyone else. This fantasy book connect to people more than some books about real world.






One
Question: This book really made me think about overcoming yourself because main character - Frodo Baggins changed from ordinary boy to very brave and strong fellow.

Pas fini mais je le finirai jamais et j’en ai marre de le voir la

No WORDS could describe HOW PERFECT the trilogy is

No hay otro libro que me haya hecho imaginar con tanta emoción su mundo y sus criaturas como este.

the LOrd of Rings is a good book.But the film of the story is better than the the story of book .Thanks for this book