|
|
|
|
|
|
|
HELP | |
|
  $4.95 List price:
TRADE PAPER, USED
Ships in 1 to 3 days
More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:
The Lord of the Rings (One Volume)by J R R Tolkien
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:One 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, 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 disappeared, 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, Merry, Pippin, and Sam, Gimli the Dwarf, Legolas the Elf, Boromir of Gondor, and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider. Review:"A unique, wholly realized other world, evoked from deep
in the well of time, massively detailed, absorbingly entertaining, profound in meaning." New York Times Book Review Review:"Among the greatest works of imaginative fiction of the twentieth century." Sunday Telegraph (London) Synopsis:The story of the century becomes a movie of the year, with the remarkable landscape of New Zealand standing in for Tolkien's Middle-earth under the direction of Academy Award( nominee Peter Jackson. Description:Following the resounding success of The Hobbit in 1938, J.R.R. Tolkien?s publisher warned him that "a large public will be clamoring next year to hear more from you about Hobbits." In 1950, Tolkien wrote his publisher, "My work has escaped from my control, and I have produced a monster...it is not really a sequel to The Hobbit, but to The Silmarillion." It would be 1954 before the first volume of The Lord of the Rings would reach bookstore shelves, but Tolkien would see his "monster" captivate millions of devoted readers all over the world.
Soon to be an epic motion picture trilogy from New Line Cinema. About the AuthorJ.R.R. Tolkien (1892–1973), beloved throughout the world as the creator of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke College, and a fellow of Merton College until his retirement in 1959. His chief interest was the linguistic aspects of the early English written tradition, but even as he studied these classics he was creating a set of his own. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
Average customer rating based on 1 comment: | |||||||||||||||
|
| ||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
Don't Miss
