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The Lord of the Rings Weapons and Warfare |
Author: Chris Smith
Published: 2003-11-05 |
List price: $24.95
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 Excellent reference source
I've been writing LotR fan fiction for about two years and have found this book to be an invaluable reference source. It is a must for any LotR film fanatic's library.
Lord of the Rings Weapons and Warfare
A++++++
Had no problems with this item. Got it thru Amazon and they always take care of their customers.
Fun to Read, and a Fantastic Reference to Tolkien's World.
If you are a fan of the Lord of the Rings and the great battles between the forces of good and evil, then the "Lord of the Rings Weapons & Warfare" is an essential addition to your personal book hoard.
1000+ color photos and drawing illustrate all the weapons of Middle Earth, the battles and the strongholds of the land.
Learn about the weapons of the elves, the elven shield, bow, sword and fighting knives.
Read about famous swords such as Hadhafang, Narsil, and Sting.
Read about the Orcs and Cave Trolls, daggers fashioned out of horn, and the Mumakil a creature of legend as fabulous and fearsome as a dragon.
Elves of Lothlorien
Bows of Middle Earth
The Black Gate of Mordor
The Balrog
Uruk-hai
Dwarves
The Men of Gondor...
And much more
"Lord of the Rings Weapons & Warfare" is a great book. It's fun to read, and is a fantastic reference to Tolkien's World.
 Research and Viewing Enhancer Book
This is a good research book. It tells you about the history of Middle Earth and the untold parts of The War of the Ring. It's an enhancer of observation while viewing the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the negative part is you might not be able to see it all unless you have the extended version. It talks about the Elves and Orcs of the Second Age. The book gives bios on all the characters that Tolkien created and some that you most likely have never heard of. For example there are two characters called The Mouth of Sauron, and Gil-galad. There is most likely is no other book just like this one.
This book as you most likely suspect has bios on some to the more famous weapons examples like Frodo's weapon Sting, Narsil the sword of Elendil, and the new legendary sword Andúril. Some of the weapons have elven writing on them. The book has translations to the sword Andúril; the translation is `Sun I am Andúril who was Narsil the sword of Elendil. Let the thralls of Mordor flee me. Moon'.
Did you know that the first group of Saruman's Uruk-hai (100 Uruk-hai) that were sent to fight the Fellowship were much stronger than the ten thousand Uruk-hai that attacked Helm's Deep? The reason the second group were weaker was that the 10,000 Uruk-hai were bred too quickly.
The book describes the step by step battle plans of the major battles like The Last Alliance battle at the beginning of The Fellowship of the Ring, The Siege of Gondor and the Battle of Pelennor Fields (Pelennor Fields is the big plain before Minas Tirith) in Return of the King.
This is a great book buy it with this kind of deal
 Not exactly the one I was hoping for...
Generally it's quite a good one - lots of interesting details, nice photos, logical and easy narrative, etc. It is a reasonable contribution to the collection of the LotR books.
But why have I put only 3 stars? Because this book is based on the LotR film and not on the LotR books, except for the issues that were not covered by and revealed in the film. As a fan more of the LotR books and the STORY itself than of the film I was slightly disappointed with the author's approach to some developments that were covered wrongly by the film in the first place and therefore commented respectively in this book. For instance - death of Saruman is narrated as in the film and only a reference appears that "according to some scholars" Saruman was stabed later on in the Shire. Come on, everyone who was READING LotR knows whow Saruman ended according to the J.R.R.Tolkien himself so how can someone tell us such nonsense! While I can understand P.Jackson who was trying to cut the story into the film I can't accept people writing something as a documentary and distorting the truth.
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