The Lord of the Rings

Tolkien, J.R.R.

ISBN 10: 0007525540 / ISBN 13: 9780007525546

Published by HarperCollins, London, 2014

viii-xxviii, 1217pp, beautifully illustrated, colour pictorial boards with blue cloth spine with title in gilt to spine. One volume featuring The Fellowship of the Rings, The Two Towers and The Return of the King. Only minor shelfwear, comes with semi-transparent plastic slipcase. Three-tone maps to eps, foldout colour illustrated frontispiece. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Seller Inventory # 069077

Synopsis:

Pub Date: 2014-08-01 Pages: 1244 Language: English Publisher: Harper Collins A sumptuous new one-volume edition of Tolkiens 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. Since it was first published in 1954. The Lord of the Rings has been a book people have treasured. Steeped in unrivalled magic and otherworldliness. its sweeping fantasy has touched the hearts of young and old alike. Well over 100 million copies of its many editions have been sold around the world. and occasional collectors editions become prized and valuable items of publishing. With the epic trilogy now an acclaimed. award-winning and billion-dollar success. images of the characters and landscapes have become iconic to a whole new generation of readers. Much of the look of these movi...

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

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Lord of the Rings
Publisher: HarperCollins, London
Publication Date: 2014
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Lee, Alan
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Book Type: Book