Thanks to Well He’s Back for this heads up about Powell’s Books Review of the Day. ‘Sure, you’ve seen the movies. Then maybe you bought the DVDs, and then several months later the extended version DVDs. You might have even seen the Ralph Bakshi animated version, which amazingly enough follows the book more closely than Peter Jackson’s epic. Thanks to media overload, you probably consider yourself well steeped in The Lord of the Rings. But how long has it been since you’ve read the books?’ [More]