The Lord of the Rings: Three Volumes, Including: the Fellowship of the Ring, the Two Towers, And, the Return of the King, A

Tolkien, J. R. R.

Published by George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., London, England, 1969

About this Item

B&W Illustrations; The books in this set are Second Edition (5th printing / 4th printing / 4th printing) . The books are in Near Fine condition and have Very Good - / Very Good+ / Very Good dust jackets. The spine ends of the book covers have some light bumping to the spine ends. The text pages are in clean, bright condition. The maps at the ends of all three of the books are in Near Fine condition. Two of the dust jackets have been price clipped, and the spine ends and corners of all three have some light rubbing and wear. There is a two inch semi-closed tear to the bottom front spine joint of the first volume, and a couple of small nicks to the other dust jackets. "Both Tolkien's academic career and his literary production are inseparable from his love of language and philology. He specialized in English philology at university and in 1915 graduated with Old Norse as his special subject. He worked on the Oxford English Dictionary from 1918 and is credited with having worked on a number of words starting with the letter W, including walrus, over which he struggled mightily. In 1920, he became Reader in English Language at the University of Leeds, where he claimed credit for raising the number of students of linguistics from five to twenty. He gave courses in Old English heroic verse, history of English, various Old English and Middle English texts, Old and Middle English philology, introductory Germanic philology, Gothic, Old Icelandic, and Medieval Welsh. When in 1925, aged thirty-three, Tolkien applied for the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College, Oxford, he boasted that his students of Germanic philology in Leeds had even formed a "Viking Club". He had a certain, if imperfect, knowledge of Finnish." (from Wikipedia).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Lord of the Rings: Three Volumes, Including: the Fellowship of the Ring, the Two Towers, And, the Return of the King, A
• Publisher: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., London, England
• Publication Date: 1969
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Revised Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good