THE LORD OF THE RINGS: The Ring Sets Out; The Ring Goes South; The Treason of Isengard; The Ring Goes East; The War of the Ring; The End of the Third Age; Appendices

Tolkien, J. R. R.; J.R.R. Tolkien

ISBN 10: 0007123817 / ISBN 13: 9780007123810

Published by HarperCollins, Publishers, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: The Ring Sets Out; The Ring Goes South; The Treason of Isengard; The Ring Goes East; The War of the Ring; The End of the Third Age; Appendices
• Publisher: HarperCollins, Publishers
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007123817
• ISBN 13: 9780007123810
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Fair
• Weight: 26 ounces

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Synopsis

Fantasy, Literary Fiction, Fictional Novel

Review

This is a single-volume edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, in which the hobbit Frodo and his elfish friends get swept up in a mighty conflict with 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 book's 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