Stage 3
Task 1 - Review
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
by J R R Tolkien
This story is about Frodo Baggins, a Hobbit from the Shire who gets the one Ring of power that could destroy the world and he has to destroy it. Frodo then get nine companions from lots of different races and they all set out on a quest to destroy the Ring.
I think the plot is excellent because it is quite strange how one thing as small as the Ring can be a weapon of mass destruction if Sauron, the Dark Lord, was to get the Ring back, because it once belonged to him. It is also strange how Frodo, a small creature who knows nothing about evil, has to go and destroy it.
The story is set in Middle Earth where the Hobbits, Elves, Dwarves and mortal men live. Middle Earth is very beautiful, especially where the Elves live, but there is one place where nothing will grow and that is Mordor where Sauron lives and where the one Ring was forged.
The Fellowship is made up of Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin, who are all hobbits, Aragorn and Boromir who are men, Legolas who is an elf, Gimli who is a dwarf and Gandalf who is a wizard. Most of them are friends but there is some rivalry between Aragorn and Boromir, and Legolas and Gimli, but in the end they become friends.
There are a lot of different languages in the book such as Dwarfish and Elfish. Dwarfish is made of runes while Elfish has lots of twirls in it and it is very spidery. There is also the language of Mordor and the Common Tongue.
There are some very mystical characters in the story. Gladriel is an Elf and if she was to take the Ring from Frodo she too could become a Dark Lord. There are the Black Riders, who are always chasing Frodo because they were once Kings of men but now have fallen into darkness and they are drawn to the power of the Ring. There are Orcs and Uruk-Hai who are servants of Sauron and they are trying to find the Ring to take back to their master, Sauron.
My favourite part of the book was when the Fellowship was in Lothlorien and they were completely amazed at the huge tree that Lothlorien was built around. It is a really beautiful place as well because the Elves built it and all their buildings are spectacular. Legolas loved this place because it reminded him of his own people, the Elves.
I really enjoyed reading this book and it is definitely one of my favourites and I am going to read more of J.R.R. Tolkien's books.
Stacey Mackie
Celtic by Mike Wilson
This book is not for Rangers fans!
It's a great book, full of information about the mighty Celts. There’s everything you need to know, from when they were formed by Brother Walfrid until modern days winning cups and trophies.
This book is very easy to read because it has big writing so it is easy to see and it is also very short, only 40 pages. Wilson writes the book in the style of a poem yet it is not one. All the information keeps you glued to the book to see where the Bhoys were off to next, if it was Lisbon to win the European Cup or Holland to sign Pierre Van Hooijdonk.
This book has 5 sections (chapters)
1. A Catholic Football Team.
2. The old firm.
3. Hall of farne.
4. Managers
5. The 1990s
Section one tells you about Brother Walfrid, a Catholic priest and teacher coming over from Ireland and starting the team in the east end of Glasgow to raise money for the poor and needy.
Section two is about The Old Firm, what more can I say. It tells you when they first met on the 28th of May 1888 when Celtic won 5 goals to 2. To the Scottish Cup Final in 1980 when a riot broke out outside the ground after Celtic won 1-0.
The third section goes on about some of Celtic’s all-time greats such as Patsy Gallagher, Kenny Dalglish and Charlie Nicholas, one of my personal favourites who does not get a mention is Jimmy Johnstone.
Section four tells you about the absolutely fantastic manager Jock Stein, who took Celtic to two European Cup finals, winning one of them against Inter Milan and losing the other. They were the first team in Britain to achieve this amazing goal. He also took them on to win nine successive Scottish league titles in a row and he won eight Scottish Cups out of eleven, six Scottish League Cups out of thirteen and three trebles (this is when you win the League, Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup all in one season). This was an absolutely outstanding achievement.
The fifth and final section tells us about nearly modern days, buying players like Van Hooijdonk and Di Canio for millions of pounds.
If you like Celtic, or are even interested in football, I strongly advise you to pick this book up and give it a read because it is a very well written and interesting book.
by J R R Tolkien
This story is about Frodo Baggins, a Hobbit from the Shire who gets the one Ring of power that could destroy the world and he has to destroy it. Frodo then get nine companions from lots of different races and they all set out on a quest to destroy the Ring.
I think the plot is excellent because it is quite strange how one thing as small as the Ring can be a weapon of mass destruction if Sauron, the Dark Lord, was to get the Ring back, because it once belonged to him. It is also strange how Frodo, a small creature who knows nothing about evil, has to go and destroy it.
The story is set in Middle Earth where the Hobbits, Elves, Dwarves and mortal men live. Middle Earth is very beautiful, especially where the Elves live, but there is one place where nothing will grow and that is Mordor where Sauron lives and where the one Ring was forged.
The Fellowship is made up of Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin, who are all hobbits, Aragorn and Boromir who are men, Legolas who is an elf, Gimli who is a dwarf and Gandalf who is a wizard. Most of them are friends but there is some rivalry between Aragorn and Boromir, and Legolas and Gimli, but in the end they become friends.
There are a lot of different languages in the book such as Dwarfish and Elfish. Dwarfish is made of runes while Elfish has lots of twirls in it and it is very spidery. There is also the language of Mordor and the Common Tongue.
There are some very mystical characters in the story. Gladriel is an Elf and if she was to take the Ring from Frodo she too could become a Dark Lord. There are the Black Riders, who are always chasing Frodo because they were once Kings of men but now have fallen into darkness and they are drawn to the power of the Ring. There are Orcs and Uruk-Hai who are servants of Sauron and they are trying to find the Ring to take back to their master, Sauron.
My favourite part of the book was when the Fellowship was in Lothlorien and they were completely amazed at the huge tree that Lothlorien was built around. It is a really beautiful place as well because the Elves built it and all their buildings are spectacular. Legolas loved this place because it reminded him of his own people, the Elves.
I really enjoyed reading this book and it is definitely one of my favourites and I am going to read more of J.R.R. Tolkien's books.
Stacey Mackie
Celtic by Mike Wilson
This book is not for Rangers fans!
It's a great book, full of information about the mighty Celts. There’s everything you need to know, from when they were formed by Brother Walfrid until modern days winning cups and trophies.
This book is very easy to read because it has big writing so it is easy to see and it is also very short, only 40 pages. Wilson writes the book in the style of a poem yet it is not one. All the information keeps you glued to the book to see where the Bhoys were off to next, if it was Lisbon to win the European Cup or Holland to sign Pierre Van Hooijdonk.
This book has 5 sections (chapters)
1. A Catholic Football Team.
2. The old firm.
3. Hall of farne.
4. Managers
5. The 1990s
Section one tells you about Brother Walfrid, a Catholic priest and teacher coming over from Ireland and starting the team in the east end of Glasgow to raise money for the poor and needy.
Section two is about The Old Firm, what more can I say. It tells you when they first met on the 28th of May 1888 when Celtic won 5 goals to 2. To the Scottish Cup Final in 1980 when a riot broke out outside the ground after Celtic won 1-0.
The third section goes on about some of Celtic’s all-time greats such as Patsy Gallagher, Kenny Dalglish and Charlie Nicholas, one of my personal favourites who does not get a mention is Jimmy Johnstone.
Section four tells you about the absolutely fantastic manager Jock Stein, who took Celtic to two European Cup finals, winning one of them against Inter Milan and losing the other. They were the first team in Britain to achieve this amazing goal. He also took them on to win nine successive Scottish league titles in a row and he won eight Scottish Cups out of eleven, six Scottish League Cups out of thirteen and three trebles (this is when you win the League, Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup all in one season). This was an absolutely outstanding achievement.
The fifth and final section tells us about nearly modern days, buying players like Van Hooijdonk and Di Canio for millions of pounds.
If you like Celtic, or are even interested in football, I strongly advise you to pick this book up and give it a read because it is a very well written and interesting book.