The Lord of the Rings / The Hobbit (illustrated hardback, 2 volume, slip case box set edition)

Tolkien, J. R. R./ Alan Lee

ISBN 10: 0007105029 / ISBN 13: 9780007105021

Published by HarperCollins, 2000

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Published by Harper Collins in 2000 here is the super hardback printings of J.R.R.Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings/ The Hobbit millennium Box Set Slip Cased editions illustrated by Alan Lee. Volume 1. The Hobbit: Green cloth binding, gilt spine lettering, front cover decoration, 289 pages, plus map to rear and sensational illustrations and glossy colour plates from Alan Lee the book is in near fine condition. The dust jacket is also near fine with some minimal creasing to the top edge. Volume 1 The Lord of The Rings (Complete in one sensational illustrated volume): Brown cloth binding, gilt spine lettering and front cover decoration, 1193 pages, several maps to rear, sensational full page glossy plates by Alan Lee the book is in near fine condition. The dust jacket is also near fine with some minor creasing to the top edge. The slip case is good to very good with some creasing and a small tear to the paper overhanging flap at the base. Together this consignment weighs close to 4 kgs and therefore additional postage MUST be applied to areas OUTSIDE the UK as follows: Europe £25, Rest of the World (excluding Canada) £30. Canada: Please contact foir a quoted before ordering. UK postage is exactly as quoted and will be tracked for this item.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Lord of the Rings / The Hobbit (illustrated hardback, 2 volume, slip case box set edition)
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007105029
• ISBN 13: 9780007105021
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Alan Lee
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Weight: 3.95 kilograms

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Synopsis

This four-volume, boxed set contains J.R.R. Tolkien's epic masterworks The Hobbit and the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King).

In The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins is whisked away from his comfortable, unambitious life in Hobbiton by the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves. He finds himself caught up in a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon.

The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo Baggins and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the wizard; the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam; Gimli the dwarf; Legolas the elf; Boromir of Gondor; and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider. J.R.R. Tolkien's three volume masterpiece is at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale—a story of high and heroic adventure set in the unforgettable landscape of Middle-earth

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