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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Read it while living in the UK. A really great read especially when it felt like I could go down the road and meet a hobbit or elf! Much much better than the movies!
Love these books. Was thinking it was time to start over and read them again
I have read all 3 of the Lord of the Rings, the movies were Great but the books are fantastic I have read them several times
This is an amazing book.
I loved this book& I have reread the book several times over the year’s. I first read the books in junior high school, againg in college & again after I was married. When the movies were made I reread them again. They never get old.
I’m not a huge reader of fantasy fiction, but this is my favourite book, and the only one that I re-read every couple of years. It’s absolutely glorious. The language is beautiful, the world Tolkien creates is completely believable, and every time I read it I find something new. For me it’s completely entrancing, and for the time I’m reading it, I …
Classic trilogy for all times. A great work deserving many re-reads.
The story is arguably the most profound fantasy ever written.
Best book of fiction ever – Well, best three books. Okay, The Hobbit needs to be included as well so 3 of the the 4 best books ever!
Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh did a great job with the films; and it’s impossible to capture all the richness of this trilogy in movies. Excellent magic, touching loyalty, inspiring bravery, mind-bending invented languages and cultures. It’s the perfect hero’s journey, in which the hero learns that he (alone or almost alone) must find the key to …
Tolkien is the standard to which all others are to be measured.
This book changed my life. Before it I was a spotty 14 year old hooked on my science studies. Then I read LOTR, and, at the same time, discovered women existed and…..but that’s enough of that. You want to hear about the book.
By now there are few people who haven’t at least heard of LOTR, and most of them have an opinion. There are the fans, …
One of the best series about an alternate world ever written. Reflects the universal struggles between good and evil with characters that have depth and flaws.
Of course, who hasn’t read this wonderful classic….
It’s a classic in literature. Awesome. Have read several times and of course seen the movies
the grandaddy of all fantasy novels
What can I say, it’s a classic! As part of a trilogy, it seems odd to have it posted alone but so be it. The characters were fresh and new when the book was originally written, now Elves are everywhere!
I read this many, many years ago along with the rest of the trilogy.
When I read “Lord of the Rings” in its entirety, it was about 1,000 pages.
In university, I learned that Tolkien was the Master of Fantasy.
I was captivated from the first sentence until the last one.
I was in awe of the different worlds Tolkien had created. I wished he was alive and on tour, so I could go up to him and state what a beautiful …
A terrific epic fantasy. Thoroughly satisfying.