One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind themIn 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. … lost to him. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.
From Sauron’s fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, his power spread far and wide. Sauron gathered all the Great Rings to him, but always he searched for the One Ring that would complete his dominion.
When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first birthday he 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; the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam; Gimli the Dwarf; Legolas the Elf; Boromir of Gondor; and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.
This new edition includes the fiftieth-anniversary fully corrected text setting and, for the first time, an extensive new index.
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), beloved throughout the world as the creator of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, 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 while he studied classic works of the past, he was creating a set of his own.
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One of the best fantasy books ever written.
read it 40 years ago
One of the best book series every written.
It’s Tolkien. What more is there to say.
Swept me away to a different world. I didn’t want to come home!
I have always loved The Lord of the Rings. I have it in hard copy and ebook. I will never tire of reading it again and again.
I read this book every year. The cornerstone of what good fantasy should be. Every one should read it at least once.
A classic anyone that enjoys fantasy or si fi you must read if you haven’t!
Like they say, the book is better. If you’ve seen the movie but have not read the book you’ve only seen a copy of the original. Tolkien is a master craftsman with words and transports you to Middle Earth as if you were there yourself. It is time well spent to read the story wven if youve seen the movie. fp
Well, who doesn’t like Lord of the Rings? But if all you know is the movie version, well then you MUST read the original works.
A classic, must read book.
Loved all of them!
One of my all time favorite books and a great read! I would recommend this book to anyone 10 and/or older! Enjoy!
The Lord of The Rings is the definition of epic fantasy. Tolkein was the author who created the fantasy genre.
Classic – the one that is the foundation of fantasy worlds
My favorite book
What can you say about the Lord of the Rings that hasn’t been said? A masterwork of epic fantasy, the epitome of the genre. One of the greatest immoortal stories of the 20th century.
My favorite series of all time! Nothing compares to Tolkien’s Middle Earth and the epic adventure of the Fellowship. I’ve read it at least a dozen times, and it never gets old.
I have loved the Tolkien books forever, have read all of them several times. Never boring
One of my favorite theologies of all time. Wonderful fantasy.