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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This book is a revisit from 50 years ago. It was just as much fun to read a lifetime later without the smudge of modern existance.
This is the book that created the need for the phrase ‘Epic Fantasy’.
A classic that was the fore runner of all fantasy books and set the bar so high for this genre none will ever come close to this classic.
This one is wort reading again.
One of my favorite series
An all-time classic.
Epic
Classic which has shaped fantasy world ever since its appearance.
Movies do it little justice, the wordsmith Tolkien knew how to write and create images that are long lasting. He was the best in the business and is why new writers are often compared to him.
This is the epic work that framed all of the rest of the works in this genre that have come since.
The gold standard of the genre. Must read for everyone.
My all time favorite fantasy. A little slow to start then Wow!
One of the best trilogies ever written. Have never escaped Middle Earth since my original reading.
This is, of course, one of the greatest works of fiction of the 20th century. I have read it five times, but now that I have it on my Kindle, I can have it at my fingertips in an easily accessible format.
Great epic literature.
This a book I re-read every two or three years. So worth it. I have never gotten tired of it!
Not sure there is anything I could write that hasn’t already been said about this epic tale.
I read the trilogy the first time in my teens, then again in my 20s, and then again in my late 30s. This piece of work has everything from love to hate, evil and good, intriguing characters, battles between armies, battles between wizards, people and places that dreams are made of, …
Tithe best. Read it every other year.
I have many copies of this book & read it often. My favourite book of all times. Great to have it in an ebook edition.