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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I read this book back in the ’70s and again in the ’80s and again in the ’90s and then there came the movies. Tolkien was a master.
The movies are amazing but Tolkein is a mediocre writer at best and it reads like a boys club only fantasy
I don’t think anyone needs to recommend “The Lord of the Ring” anymore…
One of my favorites. Have read several times and still find something new in the story. Well written.
The original from which everything afterwards is defined or derived.
It’s just the best, what more can be said? So much better than the movie. Books allow for much more character development and there is so much more in here than in the movie
Love the characters-the fight between good and evil and the in between.
loved the whole series, have read several times over the past 40+ years, starting when I was about 12.
all this and so much more- THE fantasy novel pinnacle
I’ve read the Lord of the Rings series four times. I rarely read a book more than once but this series is one of the those books and I highly recommend the series.
My all time favorite book!
You’ll really want to read the entire trilogy! Fantastic imagination on the part of Tolkin. Wish he had done more books. . . I’d read them all. Recommend that you start with “The Hobbit”. Years ago I has an illustrated version. Sure don’t know which of the Grandkids obsconded with it!!
Endless classic must read.
The best fantasy novel ever written!
One of my all-time favorite word-smith’s, J.R.R. Tolkien builds worlds top to bottom and every which way. His stories pull you into the story… you’re invested in his characters and the outcomes. LOVE.
the standard against which all fantasy is judged…
In pop-culture, the Tolkien Universe is the foundation upon which the majority of fantasy works find their inspiration.
A single person, no matter how insignificant, can change the world.
Despite the flaws, despite the imitators, it still works for me.
I like The Hobbit far better
Finest fantasy saga ever written, IMHO. Can’t imagine anyone who enjoys fantasy, combined with complex world building and wonderfully constructed characters, each with their own strengths and, more importantly, flaws, not being enraptures by the experience of being immersed in this great work.