The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Author: J.R.R. TolkienIllustrator: Alan Lee
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Published)
Format: Box set
Published: 2002-11
ISBN: 0618260587
Number of pages: 1216
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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Book Review: Lord of the Rings BBC Audio Book CD's
Summary: 5 Stars
This BBC production is a pinnacle of excellence (other than reading the book). If only the film had used this intelligent and enthralling adaptation as a guide for their script and storyline! Then we would have had a film that followed the story, without adding all that unnecessary horror and sensationalism. The original story (so well portrayed on this Audio Book) is exciting, multi-layered and inspiring. It didn't need dumbing down and gratuitous violence. Whereas the film did need the wit, the songs and the delightful background details contained in this CD set, which is now for sale at a very reasonable price. You can give yourself (and others) a fabulous gift by buying it. You can also listen to it while travelling on long trips. The time will virtually disappear. You will be part of a magical heroic world that has relevance for us all on our journey of life and our battle with misuse of power and the destruction of our environment (the negative force of the Ring of Power). Rejoice in their (and our inevitable) victory over the Shadow, no matter how long it takes.
Summary of The Lord of the Rings
Three-volume boxed set edition lavishly illustrated in full color by Alan LeeOne 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 still it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell, by chance, into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins.
From his fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, Sauron's power spread far and wide. He gathered all the Great Rings to him, but ever he searched far and wide for the One Ring that would complete his dominion.
On his eleventy-first birthday, Bilbo dissapeared 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.
A Christian can almost be forgiven for not reading the Bible, but there's no salvation for a fantasy fan who hasn't read the gospel of the genre, J.R.R. Tolkien's definitive three-book epic, the Lord of the Rings (encompassing The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King), and its charming precursor, The Hobbit. That many (if not most) fantasy works are in some way derivative of Tolkien is understood, but the influence of the Lord of the Rings is so universal that everybody from George Lucas to Led Zeppelin has appropriated it for one purpose or another.
Not just revolutionary because it was groundbreaking, the Lord of the Rings is timeless because it's the product of a truly top-shelf mind. Tolkien was a distinguished linguist and Oxford scholar of dead languages, with strong ideas about the importance of myth and story and a deep appreciation of nature. His epic, 10 years in the making, recounts the Great War of the Ring and the closing of Middle-Earth's Third Age, a time when magic begins to fade from the world and men rise to dominance. Tolkien carefully details this transition with tremendous skill and love, creating in the Lord of the Rings a universal and all-embracing tale, a justly celebrated classic. --Paul Hughes
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