The Lord of the Rings 1998 Boxed set (Hardcover)

J.R.R. Tolkien

ISBN 10: 0261102346 / ISBN 13: 9780261102347

Published by HarperCollins, 1998

About this Item

Near Fine Condition. Small bump to Front Top Left of Slipcase. Still sealed in shrinkwrap. 3 Vols. Hardcover Boxed Set 1998.

Seller Inventory # 000714

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Lord of the Rings 1998 Boxed set (Hardcover)
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0261102346
• ISBN 13: 9780261102347
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

Frodo the hobbit and his eight companions undertake a perilous quest to destroy the One Ring and break the power of the Dark Lord before he can overcome the peoples of Middle Earth.

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