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  • A Classic!

  • The Lord of the Rings trilogy became one of my all-time favorites after I rediscovered it through the Fellowship of the Ring movie. My father had read us bits of this when I was a child. I hungrily read the book after seeing that film the first time. I'd finished by my third viewing. It was a gre ... Continue

    The Lord of the Rings trilogy became one of my all-time favorites after I rediscovered it through the Fellowship of the Ring movie. My father had read us bits of this when I was a child. I hungrily read the book after seeing that film the first time. I'd finished by my third viewing. It was a great read from start to finish. The movies gave me the look, the book, gave me the full story and a life-long love of Middle-Earth.

    

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  • Read these years ago. Some of my all time favorites.

    

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• ― Hlavinka said on Jan 22, 2009 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

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  • This just wasn't my type of book. I never did get into it as much as other people have sworn they did. I don't understand all of the hype. Oh well. I tried, and I finished it. I hate to put a book down once I've started reading it. No matter how bad it is. Not that this one was bad. Just not my thin ... Continue

    This just wasn't my type of book. I never did get into it as much as other people have sworn they did. I don't understand all of the hype. Oh well. I tried, and I finished it. I hate to put a book down once I've started reading it. No matter how bad it is. Not that this one was bad. Just not my thing.

    

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  • Love these books

  • This one book contains the 3 Tolkein books (minus The Hobbit) that tells the story of The Lord of the Rings. I liked having one huge book to go through, rather than the 3 separate books. I could keep going as I tore through one story into the next.

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    This one book contains the 3 Tolkein books (minus The Hobbit) that tells the story of The Lord of the Rings. I liked having one huge book to go through, rather than the 3 separate books. I could keep going as I tore through one story into the next.

    I like the books so much better than the movie, because the movies cannot give true justice into the world that Tolkein created, or the creatures. In these books, you get to really use your imagination and "see" things through Tolkein's eyes, not just the director of the movie who picked and chose what parts of the story to elaborate on or throw away.

    A great classic read for anyone who likes fantasy and adventure!

    

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• ― Running Fox said on Aug 31, 2008 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • Typical western sytle fantasy, I mean...too typical

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• ― Edu said on Aug 8, 2008 about the Leather Bound edition| Add your feedback

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  • I'll probably never "finish". I find reading J.R.R.'s masterpiece quite tedious.

    

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• ― Jason William Egroff said on Jun 27, 2008 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them

In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.

From Sauron's fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, his power spread far and wide. Sauron gathered all the Great Rings to him, but always he searched for the One Ring that would complete his dominion.

When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first birthday he disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom.

The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard; the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam; Gimli the Dwarf; Legolas the Elf; Boromir of Gondor; and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.

This new edition includes the fiftieth-anniversary fully corrected text setting and, for the first time, an extensive new index.


J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), beloved throughout the world as the creator of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke College, and a fellow of Merton College until his retirement in 1959. His chief interest was the linguistic aspects of the early English written tradition, but while he studied classic works of the past, he was creating a set of his own.

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