FOTR Visual Companion

Rating: Rings

January 11, 2003

By Jude Fisher

List Price: $19.95

Hard Back

Houghton Mifflin Books.

---Description (from front cover): "The official authorized companion book to The Fellowship of the Ring, published to coincide with the release of the first part of Peter Jackson's epic film trilogy, The Lord of the Rings"

---About the Author: Jude Fisher was born in Cornwall and now lives outside London. She has worked in the book industry, as a bookseller and a publisher, for nearly twenty years, has a master's degree in Scandinavian studies, specializing in Old Icelandic texts, and has published four novels under the pseudonym Gabriel King.

Review by emplynx:

Peter Jackson recently created one of the best movies of 2001. His movie brought to life one of the greatest books of all times. The Fellowship of the Ring was released in December 2001 by New Line Cinemas. Jude Fisher wrote this book to help people to understand all of the characters.

The FotR Visual Companion is an excellent book that portrays the Fellowship movie very well. It is 72 pages of information and pictures about character, places, and things. The information is not always parallel to Tolkien's book but it follows the movie quite well.

The pictures are by far the best part of this book. It contains probably 100 full-color screenshots from the Fellowship. The front and back covers alone show how wonderful the pictures are.

This book is a great companion for any diehard Tolkien fan or just plain confused Fellowship movie fan. It does not contain information anywhere comparable to the Complete Guide to Middle Earth, but the pictures are stunning!

Comments:

I have read this book many times, and I have to say that it is a wonderful accompiant to the other books in its class. It provides beautiful photos, outrageous facts and details about the movie, and not to mention its info about their beloved actors/actresses! I, like many others, am a huge fan of this book, and I'm sure, many can agree!

Posted by: Analisa at May 12, 2003 12:09 AM

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