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 books I have ever read
Took several tries to get into the Hobbit, but then I was hooked? The Lord of The Rings sets the gold standard for fantasy.
Best book ever.
One of the best books I have ever read-each time (I have read it countless times) I find a new part of the story that I can enjoy!
A Classic fantasy series.
I read the entire series of Lord of the Rings. then bought all he videos.Reading the amazing books brings all the characters to life. Each book brings the characters and surrounding s to life. The videos is the icing on the cake. Read all the books!
Lord of the Rings is one of my favorite stories ever!! The writing style can throw people off at first but the story is fantastic!! a true classic!
Simply enthralling.
You have to read all three volumes (and reading The Hobbit first is also recommended). It’s a long read but well worth it.
Classic!
This is a great story of good vs evil in the wonderful make-believe world of Middle Earth.
This is the best series I have ever read!
I enjoyed this book didn’t want to put it down until I read it all
I read all of the tolkien books, and started the very last where the author was explaining the origins of the different sect of elves, and other non human characters. It got very deep and I had to put it down, I was lost…. But, I still have the book, and maybe some day I can get back into it.
Who thinks that they are actually worthy of reviewing these/this book(s)? There is also a great series of movies loosely based on the set
Baptized my imagination!
opening lines contradictory to rest of book
The standard for all fantasy!
I love this collection. It’s a little hard to get into at first but once you do you can’t put it down and there’s so much more then the movie gives you!
Excellent series…what can I say Tolkien’s characters and world is awesome.