![]() While the price of this book is steep, this is easily the best version of this book in print. ![]() The only advantage of these editions is portability, as the red and blue versions are single-volume and quite hefty. The print quality in both is poor, and the durability is less than that of the red and blue versions. The other two major editions of LOTR - the white three-volume edition from Oct 1988 and the black seven-volume edition from Jan 2000 - are not recommended (2 stars). I found both of these editions to be satisfactory. If you are the type of reader that prefers to leave everything to your imagination, this is the version for you.īoth the blue and red versions have matching editions of "The Hobbit" (Houghton Mifflin, Sep 1997 or Oct 1973, respectively). It is every bit as good as the blue version, but does not have the illustrations. The red edition printed in Nov 1974 is also a solid edition of the book (4 stars). The illustrations are wonderful, though most Tolkien fans will have seen these pictures before. It is durable, beautiful, and has no flaws that I have found. I have owned this book for several years, and read it three times. The best of the editions (5 stars) is the blue Alan Lee illustrated version printed in Nov 1991. They are essentially the same price, so I will not take that into consideration. There are for major hardcover editions of LOTR, all published by Houghton Mifflin Co. Rather, it is a review of the several hardcover editions of this fantastic story. Its having been voted "The Greatest Book of the Millenium" here on says more than enough about the worth of Tolkien's work. This is not a review of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings". and Weta Workshop of New Zealand, the artisans responsible for the conceptualization, prosthetics, makeup effects, weapons, armor, and miniatures for Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings film trilogy. These unique, limited-edition bookend sculptures have been hand-cast in heavyweight polystone and hand-painted to the highest standards by the artists of Sideshow/Weta, a unique partnership between museum-quality collectibles manufacturer Sideshow, Inc. The old hobbit had been plagued by the incessant attentions of unwanted visitors, well-wishers, and distant relations, prompting him to hang out a sign on his front gate warning "No admittance except on party business." It was in this grumpy state of mind that Bilbo, completely unprepared for the joyous reunion that awaited him, stomped to the door to answer Gandalf's knock. It was the morning of Bilbo's one hundred and eleventh birthday, and a party of special magnificence was planned for that night. Returning to Hobbiton after an absence of many years, the wizard Gandalf quickly sought out Bag End, the home of his old and dear friend the hobbit Bilbo Baggins. Now millions of filmgoers have embraced the blockbuster motion picture trilogy that has fired the imaginations of a new generation. ![]() Millions of readers have celebrated this exciting tale of hobbits, wizards, men, dwarves, and elves in a land called Middle-earth. Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, has been hailed throughout the world as one of the greatest adventure stories ever written. Presented here in hardcover with a beautiful jacket chosen through a global fan poll, J.R.R. 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. 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. (He disapproved of the relative sparseness of detail in the comparable allegorical fantasy his friend C.S. 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. 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. ![]() This is a single-volume edition of J.R.R.
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