The Fellowship of the Ring

A great creative reading. The accents are fun and helpful for keeping the characters straight. The singing makes the long lyrics almost bearable. However, getting passed his intense vocal fry was a real challenge for me.

Absolutely amazing performance by Andy Serkis. The book really comes to life. I have just finished listening and I'm ready to hear it again.

Everything I loved it I didn’t think I would but I love it ?

a wonderfully narrated classic. What a tale about true friendship and companionship

andy made me enjoy the book better <3 what a stellar performance!

The adventure has well and truly begun. What a cliff hanger !!

Andy Serkis is sublime. I highly recommend this version of the audio book.

The performance of the narrator is amazing! Best audiobook I've heard.

A story that I have read before but it is a new pleasure to have it to be told by Andy Serkis well worth the listen.

O senhor dos anéis é, simplesmente, o melhor livro já escrito - e magistralmente interpretado por Andy Serkis.

Wonderful - thank YOU Mr Andy Serkis. Will listen again.

That’s the best reader I’ve ever listened to!
Thank you lots of lots!

Andy Serkis nails the performance of every single character, it is just such a joy to listen to.

Amazingly read, the well known story comes to new life in this way.

Andy Serkis as a narrator was absolutely sublime. What a delight!

A very good book and much enjoyed with Andy serkis reading it

It has been so much fun revisiting these books. I completely recommend them. I can't even name a genre that I would recommend them to, I just recommend them to everyone. Okay, realistically there is no romance to speak of, but everything else that is fun and interesting is here. We have sci-fi, fantasy, mystery/thriller, magic and fantasy, young adult, classic, friendship and legend. It's just fun. I love these stories. I never got around to watching the movies, maybe I'll have to do that soon.

Happy reading.

I will always love this story! A favorite for life

Andy Serkis is a gift to humanity. He has done so much to bring the world of Tolkien to life. Between his pioneer work in motion capture for the films and gripping portrayal of Gollum to acting as an entire cast in the audio form - thank you good sir, and bless you! You are incredible!

Awesome in every way perfectly read wonderful characters and story

This was a re-read (actually a listen of the audiobook edition, read by the talented actor Andy Serkis), of The Fellowship of the Ring. Clocking in at 23 hours, this was a long edition, but highly recommended!
After watching the prequel history of Sauron and the making of the rings in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power on the small screen, this novel and the history referenced in it became more alive to me and I felt more grounded in the quest. The fabulous narration (with songs and recitations) was awesome.

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Loved it! Andy Serkis was a brilliant narrator, calming and also gets right into each character.

An absolutely amazing way to finally experience a literary and fantasy masterpiece.

I'm an artist so a lot of my time is spent working on my pieces, which leaves little time for reading books. I finally decided to experience J.R.R.T's classic and was blown away.

Andy Serkis has such an amazing grasp on the world that it is impossible not to be sucked in.

Such a perfect narrator for this story! Really brought the whole thing to life.

A classic for a reason, my only complaint? Too many songs. Seriously.

A W E S O M E better than the movie

Stepping into what feels to be the history of us all. Never has writing painted such a pleasurable picture.

The Fellowship of The Ring (Pretty damn good. I like all the history, it's a fully realized world. Tom Bombadill sucked ass and that part was way too long.)

You know what this book is about and you either love it or hate it. The first in the larger Lord of the Rings trilogy, FOTR finds our not-so merry band of adventurers dealing with a heavy burden. A mandate to destroy a virtually indestructible ring of power that will grant you power equal to your stature and will corrupt you absolutely if you attempt to use. FOTR is the best of the three and once you get past the excess poetry and songs (Tolkien was a philologist who invented multiple languages in his world-building quest... you've got to expect some poetry) you'll find an almost flawlessly constructed world of epic fantasy. Sure, there's been a lot of ink spilled over the apparently regressive politics and culture of Middle Earth, but it's fantasy for Pete's sake. Tolkien's literary politics were, though a product of his time, not ill meaning. If anything, it can be read as an allegory for the horrors of modernity and the types of wars that come with it (though not by Tolkien himself). He's not Heinlein after all! A classic and must read for all, not just fantasy fans.

Now I recall why I have not re-read the LotR in 40 years. It isn't solely the interminable poems and songs. It is the _endless_ trivial details (which direction someone walks, for example) that have no real bearing on the outcome of the plot or the development of the characters. I know this is a beloved classic and all us fantasy fiction fans owe Tolkien a great debt of gratitude. But jeez, a strong editor sure could have tighted this thing up. (Horrible thought: one did so. Tolkien's original was even longer!)