The Lord of the Rings. Illustrated Slipcased Edition
J. R. R. Tolkien
ISBN 10: 0007525540 ISBN 13: 9780007525546
Published by Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2014
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Condition: Fine | Pages: 1217 | Language: English | Product Type: Books. Seller Inventory # 24503178/22
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A sumptuous new one-volume edition of Tolkien's classic masterpiece that is fully illustrated throughout in watercolour by the acclaimed and award-winning artist, Alan Lee, and housed in a special transparent slipcase.
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
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Title: The Lord of the Rings. Illustrated Slipcased...
Publisher: Harper Collins Publ. UK
Publication Date: 2014
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
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Hardcover. First edition thus (& 1st printing). ''For the first time in it's history, it is now presented with the author's own paintings, drawings and illustrations'' plus the following ''exclusive features'' - definitive version of the text, printed in two colours on acid free paper, with gilt edging and ribbon marker: illustrated with more than 30 full-colour paintings, drawings and illustrations by the author, all of which appear here for the very first time: features the original red and black maps, including two appearing as large fold-out posters: appearing for the first time a removeable facsimile of the 'King's Letter' that appears in the rejected epilogue to The Lord of The Rings, written in tengwar and sent by King Elessar to Sam, which is printed in black with silver foil: quarter-bound in red leather and black cloth with raised spine ribs, and stamped in two foils with the author's Ring device: housed in a custom made slipcase bound in red cloth and stamped in gold foil, with circular die-cut revealing the eye of Sauron. Fine copy in pictorial boards (as issued without dustjacket) in slipcase, and in pictorial card (mailing?) box (as new). Seller Inventory # 54127
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