The Lord of the Rings - illustrated hardback

J R R Tolkien, illustrated by Alan Lee

ISBN 10: 0261102303 / ISBN 13: 9780261102309

Published by HarperCollins, 1991

About this Item

21st impression of the 1991 single volume LOTR illustrated by Alan Lee, first published to commemorate the centenary of JRR Tolkien s birth. It also includes Tolkien s appendices and maps. Signed in pencil to half-title: To Pete Best wishes Alan Lee. Brown cloth, gilt titles, unclipped dustjacket. 50 colour plates. Condition: Near fine book in very good dustjacket. Grubbiness to top and bottom edge of text block. Otherwise fine. Slight bumping to edges of dj, spine sunned. Now in removable plastic sleeve. Size: 10x7in \/ 26x18cm. 1193 pages. Weight: 2.2kg. Heavy book, may require extra postage for overseas.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1748630936736

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Lord of the Rings - illustrated hardback
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0261102303
• ISBN 13: 9780261102309
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Illustrator
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fantasy and Sci Fi
  • Illustrated
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

THE LORD OF THE RINGS J.R.R. TOLKIEN ILLUSTRATED BY ALAN LEE 2ND EDITION BOOKS 1 TO 6, SINGLE VOLUME This edition contains fifty full colour illustrations specially commissioned from artist Alan Lee to commemorate the centenary of J.R.R. Tolkien's birth. It also includes Tolkien's appendices and maps. Books 1 through 6 in single volume. Hard cover. Dust cover + attached ribbon bookmark. 2nd edition. Includes: - ANNALS OF THE KINGS AND RULERS - THE TALE OF YEARS - FAMILY TREES (HOBBITS) - CALENDARS - WRITING AND SPELLING - INDEXES

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