The QPB Companion to The Lord of the Rings

Geirst, Brandon, Ed.

ISBN 10: 0965307883 / ISBN 13: 9780965307888

Published by Quality Paperback Book Club, 2001

About this Item

Large, thin softcover, glossy beautiful color-illustrated wrappers showing Middle Earth on front, spine and back wrappers, 104 pages. Mint.

Seller Inventory # 33488

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The QPB Companion to The Lord of the Rings
• Publisher: Quality Paperback Book Club
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0965307883
• ISBN 13: 9780965307888
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Reference
  • Fantasy

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Synopsis

This handy volume is more than just a footrest to the snug club chair that is THE LORD OF THE RINGS; it is a friend who drops by to share choice gossip about one of your favorite subjects. The storied reality behind the classic fantasy - curious creator, the sword-crossing critics, the "deplorable cultus" ... will not capative Tolkien enthusiasts but amuse those who "just don't get it". The book first introduces us to the author, whom The New York Times described as "the tweedist and most persnickety of Oxford philologists; a man who said of himslef, 'I am in fact a Hobbit (in all but size).' We then hear from a host of other critics.....