- Paperback: 1168 pages
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0618129022
- ISBN-13: 978-0618129027
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 13.5 x 4.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 998 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (842 customer reviews)
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#1,374,723 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #100 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Series > Tolkien's Middle Earth
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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
From Library Journal
The official movie tie-in volume with cover art of a Nazg?l perched upon its black steed offers the complete story in a single volume, as the author intended.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Nice, but *not* leather binding,
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This review is from: The Lord of the Rings (Hardcover)
Only an balrog could object to an revised 50th anniversary edition, with corrections beyond those in the the standard revised version. BUT...
This edition is *not* "leather bound:" it's a less-than-ordinary hardcover binding with paper-thin faux-leather glued over paper boards. The bookmark ribbon breaks the binding. Signatures are glued rather than sewn together, not held together by the 'leather', but glued onto the paper end sheets, which are separated from the paper spine. Poor production generally: end papers badly centred, more than a little random glue and rubber cement on the covers that really mars the appearance. [See annotated Customer Image #2]. Reviewers elsewhere have commented on uneven type quality; this 2nd printing does not have that problem. It's an OK one-volume edition, given the revisions. *Not* a 'collectible', definitely not worth the CDN$86 list, barely worth the discounted $56 given the disappointment factor. Don't give this as a gift to a Tolkien fan, expecting rapture. I kept mine for the revisions, first-time readers look elsewhere. Amazon: please *stop* advertising this edition as 'leather bound': it is *serious* misrepresentation of the product.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fantastic,
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This review is from: The Lord of the Rings (Hardcover)
This is a beautiful edition of an already supremely amazing publication that any true Tolkien fan shouldn't be without. It combines all three parts of the trilogy, including all prefaces and appendices, into a drool-inspiring leatherbound single edition with gold-gilded pages. Simply the nicest edition of Lord of the Rings to date, though since they have published the three books again with many full colour illustrations, which I am going to need to add to my collection...
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Superb !,
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This review is from: Lord of the Rings CD Gift Set (Audio CD)
What a wonderful way to liven up your daily commute!
The extremely talented narrator provides a lively and varied rendition that shuns from being theatrical. To my great surprise, the multiple songs in the work are actually sung, a cappella, with vocal inflections matching the character concerned. This audiobook spreads over 46 CDs and is well worth the price. I strongly recommend it to anyone short of time to read.
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