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J.R.R. the Lord of the Rings (Hardcover)

by J. R. R. Tolkien (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (219 customer reviews)

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Hobbits and wizards and Sauron--oh, my! Mild-mannered Oxford scholar John Ronald Reuel Tolkien had little inkling when he published The Hobbit; Or, There and Back Again in 1937 that, once hobbits were unleashed upon the world, there would be no turning back. Hobbits are, of course, small, furry creatures who love nothing better than a leisurely life quite free from adventure. But in that first novel and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the hobbits Bilbo and Frodo and their elfish friends get swept up into a mighty conflict with the dragon Smaug, 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 four books' 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 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


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New Line Cinema will be releasing "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy in three separate installments, and Houghton Mifflin Tolkien's U.S. publisher since the release of The Hobbit in 1938 will be re-releasing each volume of the trilogy separately and in a boxed set (ISBN 0-618-15397-7. $22; pap. ISBN 0-618-15396-9. $12).
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A comment on the product, Oct 11 2006
By S. Peters (Calgary, AB) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lord of the Rings (3 Volume Boxed Set) (Paperback)
While a Lord of the Rings fanatic myself, I don't see a reason to write an extensive commentary on the trilogy. If you want a review on the book there are more than sufficient amounts of widely varied opinions below my own that should satiate one's curiosity as to the virtues (or lack thereof) of Tolkien's most acclaimed work.

I feel it more important to note that the item you will be receiving is NOT the one portrayed in the image, but rather a boxset of the three individual novels from the relatively recent Harper Collins reprinting. These three novels are the mass market stylized black ones which have a ring of yellow, red or green on the covers, distinguishing one novel from the next, as well as the glossy black background markings. Unfortunately, I had ordered this item thinking that it was a different printing (due to cover art) that I didn't yet possess and upon receiving the product, I was a little put out to discover that I now have two identical boxsets of black covers. The second will still make a great gift for someone else, but you should be aware that this item is inconsistent with the picture.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars This Edition is a Disgrace!, Nov 6 2000
By Robert S. Truesdell (Costa Mesa, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This is not a critique of Tolkien's work; rather it is a condemnation of Houghton Mifflin's hardcover boxed set. Thirty years after first reading "The Lord of the Rings" I decided to read it again. Besides the engrossing and detailed story, I had a renewed interest in the technical aspects of Tolkien's craft and his use of the English language. I am not disappointed and I am enjoying the reading immensely.

I bought the Hardcover Boxed edition published October, 1988, by Houghton Mifflin Co (Trd); ISBN: 0395489326 ; because I wanted a high quality, permanent copy with good typesetting and larger print. When I received this particular edition I was shocked at the extremely poor quality of print and generally poor quality of every aspect of the presentation. In two of the volumes the maps are incorrectly bound so that they are impossible to unfold. It is not even possible to cut the map out of the book because important parts of the middle of it have been sewn up in the binding.

But the damning point of this edition is the printed page. Every single page has both drop outs and extra ink everywhere. The printing weight varies from page to page, at times fading to a medium gray, at other times a dense bold face. I am not exaggerating when I proclaim that most paperbacks are printed more carefully and more clearly than this.

Buy the books, read them and enjoy them. But benefit from my misfortune and stay far far away from this edition.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Lord Of The Rings book set, Feb 15 2003
By Amanda (Nova Scotia, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Lord of the Rings (Boxed Set) (Movie Covers) (Paperback)
i am not a book fan. but as soon as i seen the movie for this, i wanted to see what the book was like. and being my first book, it was even better than the movie. there wasnt a dull moment in ths book. Tolkien really brought this book to life. and as you are reading it, it almost seems as this really happened at some point in time. though it was somewhat different from the movie, it had a lot more deatail and story into it, which merely but tastefully hints in the moive. but i think this deserved the highest raiting for its clever use of words, vividly described scenes, and characters and plots that could only be found in this book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Really good
I received this book in pretty good condition but there was a slight bend in the corner of the box, but nothing too serious. Read more
Published 2 months ago by J. Pritchett

5.0 out of 5 stars Wrong Edition, Still?!
While the books are awesome and I, a huge fan, I ordered this edition over a year ago from this site. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Josh Lambert

3.0 out of 5 stars Trees...
I found these boring. I struggled through them, sure, but I didn't really enjoy them much. I can see how some people who are really into fantasy would love this, though... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Benjamin Anderson

5.0 out of 5 stars what more can you say?
After so many people have reviewed this book in such a deservedly positive fashion, it's hard to add much that's new. Read more
Published 24 months ago by Paul J. Fitzgerald

5.0 out of 5 stars Most Definetly The Best
I Would just like to say for any nerds that read this review that anyone at all, in this world or any other one, that say Tolkien was not a Genious and wrote the best Fiction book... Read more
Published on Sep 13 2006 by J. Lambert

3.0 out of 5 stars 4 stars without the second book
I'll make it short, I liked this book, but people, before saying this is the best book of all time try reading other books, there is more good reading out there, it really isn't... Read more
Published on Jul 29 2005 by vincenzo_di_formaggio

5.0 out of 5 stars The best book ever
The Lord of the Rings has a different view of life than its prelude, The Hobbit. The Hobbit is very comical and features an adventure, while The Lord of the Rings is very serious... Read more
Published on Sep 7 2004 by Eleven Year Old

5.0 out of 5 stars Timeless masterpiece!
The Fellowship of the Ring tells the story of the Hobbit Frodo Baggins and of how he discovers that the invisibility ring handed down to him by his uncle Bilbo is in fact the One... Read more
Published on Mar 17 2004 by Stephanie Noverraz

5.0 out of 5 stars so great
so cool...i loved these books and the movie was pretty good too. Totally awsome because it was filled with exticing adventures and cool charecters. IT was a great plot too.
Published on Feb 24 2004

3.0 out of 5 stars This new printing is missing parts of the story
I first read the three volumes of the lord of the Ring when I was a child back in early 1980. I have since lost the books from that time So I bought this reprinting of the story... Read more
Published on Jan 23 2004

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