The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings Boxed Set

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

ISBN 10: 0261103563 / ISBN 13: 9780261103566

Published by Harper Collins Publ. UK Nov 1997, 1997

About this Item

Neuware -A new edition of the slipcased box set of 'The Hobbit' and the three volumes of 'The Lord Of The Rings'. Published to celebrate the 75th anniversary of 'The Hobbit''s publication. Englisch.

Seller Inventory # 9780261103566

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings Boxed Set
• Publisher: Harper Collins Publ. UK Nov 1997
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0261103563
• ISBN 13: 9780261103566
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 205W x 133H x 97D millimeters 205 millimeters width by 133 millimeters height by 97 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1132 grams

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Synopsis

This box set collects the famous Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. Books included are "The Fellowship of the Ring," "The Two Towers," and "The Return of the King;" all three of which are part of the Lord of the Rings trilogy; along with "The Hobbit."

Review

Hobbits and wizards and Sauron--oh, my! Mild-mannered Oxford scholar John Ronald Reuel Tolkien had little inkling when he published The Hobbit; Or, There and Back Again in 1937 that, once hobbits were unleashed upon the world, there would be no turning back. Hobbits are, of course, small, furry creatures who love nothing better than a leisurely life quite free from adventure. But in that first novel and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the hobbits Bilbo and Frodo and their elvish friends get swept up into a mighty conflict with the dragon Smaug, the dark lord Sauron (who owes much to proud Satan in Paradise Lost), the monstrous Gollum, the Cracks of Doom, and the awful power of the magical Ring. The four books' characters--good and evil--are recognizably human, and the realism is deepened by the magnificent detail of the vast parallel world Tolkien devised, inspired partly by his influential Anglo-Saxon scholarship and his Christian beliefs. (He disapproved of the relative sparseness of detail in the comparable allegorical fantasy his friend C.S. Lewis dreamed up in The Chronicles of Narnia, though he knew Lewis had spun a page-turning yarn.) It has been estimated that one-tenth of all paperbacks sold can trace their ancestry to J.R.R. Tolkien. But even if we had never gotten Robert Jordan's The Path of Daggers and the whole fantasy genre Tolkien inadvertently created by bringing the hobbits so richly to life, Tolkien's epic about the Ring would have left our world enhanced by enchantment. --Tim Appelo