It's rating depends on what you are reading it for if you were reading it to gain a better uunderstanding of Middle Earth and some backgrouund on LoTR then I would give it a 10. If you wanted to have an enthralling story then perhaps a 7.5, it's low because the begining is pretty slow and if I didn't have my trusty atlas I would have been lost. It was however, in my view definetly worth the read.
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For the valour of the Edain the Elves shall ever remember as the ages lengthen, marvelling that they gave life so freely of which thay had on earth so little. But it is not for thy valour only that I send thee, but to bring into the world a hope beyond thy sight, and a light that shall pierce the darkness." Ulmo - Lord of waters
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