The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of the Lord of the Rings

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

ISBN 10: 0395489318 / ISBN 13: 9780395489314

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967

About this Item

Idioma/Language: Inglés. This three volume novel is an epic high fantasy novel. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 children's fantasy novel The Hobbit, but eventually developed into a much larger work. It was written in stages between 1937 and 1949, much of it during World War II. It is the second best-selling novel ever written, with over 150 millin copies sold. *** Nota: Los envíos a España peninsular, Baleares y Canarias se realizan a través de mensajería urgente. No aceptamos pedidos con destino a Ceuta y Melilla.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of the Lord of the Rings
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Publication Date: 1967
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395489318
• ISBN 13: 9780395489314
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New
• Weight: 608 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literatura en Inglés

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Synopsis

J.R.R. Tolkien’s three-volume epic, The Lord of the Rings, begins with this classic high fantasy set in the imaginary world of Middle-earth ― home to many strange beings, and most notably hobbits, a peace-loving "little people," cheerful and shy. Since its original British publication in 1954-55, the saga has entranced readers of all ages. It is at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale. Critic Michael Straight has hailed it as one of the "very few works of genius in recent literature." Middle-earth is a world receptive to poets, scholars, children, and all other people of good will. Donald Barr has described it as "a scrubbed morning world, and a ringing nightmare world…especially sunlit, and shadowed by perils very fundamental, of a peculiarly uncompounded darkness." The story of this world is an epic quest of high and heroic adventure. Barr compared it to Beowulf, C.S. Lewis to Orlando Furioso, W.H. Auden to The Thirty-nine Steps. In fact this saga of good vs evil is sui generis ― a triumph of imagination which springs to life within its own framework and on its own terms.

About the Author

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892–1973) was a distinguished academic, though he is best known for writing The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, plus other stories and essays. His books have been translated into over sixty languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide.