what made you love THE LORD OF THE RINGS story?

Answer 1

I assume you mean the book? I haven't seen the movie.

I love all of it. The glorious battle scenes, the noble Aragorn winning his love, the heart break of Eowyn and her valor in slaying the Black captain. It echoes with my view of life with the God of the Bible--Gandalf coming back from the dead and riding on a huge horse with nobility and valor. I guess I felt like the books captured images of goodness, nobility, kingliness, and the power of pure goodness in a way that we don't see today. I also identified with the people living at the end of the age, because I feel that we too are watching the final rise of evil and will get to see the triumph of good, though things will never be the same. I'm heartened by Frodo--he failed in the quest, though so perseverent...and yet Good still succeeded. There is an unending number of things that win me in these books, but that's a few of them.

Answer 2

I am a big fan of Fantasy Novels. Usually when you read a book before watching the movie, the book is better. This movie matched exactly how we imagined it when we read the book. The computer generated characters were awesome...Gollum was excellent. The landscape was perfect...the story was just amazing, and I think since there are not too many movies in this type of setting it was a new experience for everyone (not being the typical action movie)

Answer 3

I liked the way Tolkien described Middle Earth; so ancient and mysterious, with its forests, mountains, and strange creatures. Tolkien's storytelling style is very appealing, too. My father read it aloud to us when we were kids, and I always wanted to go and live with the Elves, the way Sam Gamgee did!

When LOTR was made into a film trilogy, I was delighted to see the way they included so many details of the story. I think many of us dream of a magical journey or quest. And it is satisfying to see good triumph over evil, in the end.

Answer 4

I loved it because none of the so-called "powers" could deal with the burden. It took someone with a pure and good heart to carry the burden and destroy (or try to destroy) the ring. I loved the fact that a good person stepped up to the plate and made a sacrifice to try to help all types of people.

Answer 5

The writing. Read it way weay before the movies came out
First time i read it i was a kid.

Tolkiens ability to transport the reader to a distant land full of adventure.

The movies are amazing, but will never compare to the visions of the story i had in my imagination for decades before the movies were ever filmed.

Answer 6

The protagonist ultimately fails in the end (in the books, they changed the end in the movie), which is extremely odd in epic tales..

also, Tolkien created the equivilant of like 4 earth histories (there is SO much history in LOTR), and 7 working functional languages, from his head.

Answer 7

The way it so perfectly mirrored the books and captured the essence of it.

I've always loved the message of the LOTR... even the smallest, almost seemingly insignificant person can change the world in a very big way.

Answer 8

The mysterious ring itself.

Answer 9

Reading the books (well the hobbit to start) when I was very very young..maybe 4 or 5 I had them read to me, then as I got older I tried to get my head around the myself...amazing monsters, amzaing heros, massive moral values.....a proper classic

Answer 10

the lord of the rings was so gay.the story was people walking to a valcano who wants to see a movie about that.