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: Mapless Wonder...
Summary: 5 Stars
What good is Lord of the Rings without the maps? Well, great, if you pretty much have it memorized! Having the Lord of the Rings available to me electronically is something I have desired for many years now. The hardcover editions of the book have always felt a little too much like college textbooks to be to my liking, and I have always hated paperbacks. Now the quest for the electronic version of the one book to rule them all is finally over, and we can all rest easy. Even if this version is missing some maps.
I have been reading ebooks since the days Palm first came out, but have always been disappointed that the classic LoTR has not been available. Seeing it again really makes me smile, and even though there are some problems with this electronic version, one can't fault it as one of the great works of all time. Not only are some of the maps missing, but there are a few typographical errors as well, but for a book so large this is to be expected, and I expect that if they are corrected in later editions, the electronic versions I purchase now will be updated for redownload later.
Even if not, I am more than satisfied with the way it is now.
Highly recommended.
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
Tolkien, Christopher Books
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