The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King in one volume

J.R.R. Tolkien

ISBN 10: 0048231495 / ISBN 13: 9780048231499

Published by Unwin Paperbacks, London, 1982

About this Item

First published in this Unwin Paperback edition in1978, this is the 3rd printing thus, 1982. A very decent and presentable copy with minimal wear to the spine. The edges of the wraps are a little worn and there is a light tan to the edge of the page block. There's a library "withdrawn" stamp to the front end-paper with a pen price of 25p, otherwise unmarked throughout. Very good condition.

Seller Inventory # GE210*

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King in one volume
• Publisher: Unwin Paperbacks, London
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0048231495
• ISBN 13: 9780048231499
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 3rd Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 12.6W x 19.4H x 4.2D centimeters 12.6 centimeters width by 19.4 centimeters height by 4.2 centimeters depth
• Weight: 642 grams

About this title

Synopsis

The original ‘fantasy’ series, and still the greatest, The Lord of the Rings has sold over 100 million copies, been translated into more than 40 languages, and has been voted the best book of the 20th century.

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