Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: excellent reference!

I bought this atlas based on reviews and am very happy I did. Excellent reference companion to Tolkien's "Silmarillion", "The Hobbit", and "Lord of the Rings". Great maps, informative descriptions, nice layout. The only thing I'm not pleased with is the center binding cuts off parts of the maps which would be an issue with the publisher and not the author.