The Lord of the Rings

J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel) Tolkien, CBE FRSL (Author); Douglas A. Anderson (Note on the Text by)

ISBN 10: 0618260250 / ISBN 13: 9780618260256

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA & New York, 1994

About this Item

1137 pp. Solidly and well bound copy with moderate to extensive overall wear and use. Copy with clean text. Some edge wear. Mildly creased and slightly indented spine. Over-sized and/or over weight book; may require additional postage. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur extra shipping charge for both domestic and/or international shipments.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Lord of the Rings
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA & New York
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0618260250
• ISBN 13: 9780618260256
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Illustrator: Houghton Mifflin Company (Cover Design); New Line Production, Inc. (Images)
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction-Science Fiction, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
  • Literature: Children & Juvenile Literature
  • Fiction-Children's & Juvenile Fiction & Literature

About this title

Synopsis

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, The Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages, it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.

From his fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, Sauron's power spread far and wide. He gathered all the Great Rings to him, but always he searched far and wide for the One Ring that would complete his dominion.

On Bilbo's eleventy-first birthday, he disapeared, bequeathing to his young cousin, Frodo, the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom.

THE LORD OF THE RINGS tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo 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.

About the Author

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892–1973), beloved throughout the world as the creator of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke College, and a fellow of Merton College until his retirement in 1959. His chief interest was the linguistic aspects of the early English written tradition, but even as he studied these classics he was creating a set of his own.