J.R.R. Tolkien Boxed Set (The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings)
This is a boxed set containing paper editions of Tolkien's four stories of Middle-earth: The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King.
Hobbits and wizards and Sauron--oh, my! Mild-mannered Oxford scholar John Ronald Reuel Tolkien had little inkling when he published The Hobbit; Or, There and Back Again in 1937 that, once hobbits were unleashed upon the world, there would be no turning back. Hobbits are, of course, small, furry creatures who love nothing better than a leisurely life quite free from adventure. But in that first novel and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the hobbits Bilbo and Frodo and their elfish friends get swept up into a mighty conflict with the dragon Smaug, the dark lord Sauron (who owes much to proud Satan in Paradise Lost), the monstrous Gollum, the Cracks of Doom, and the awful power of the magical Ring. The four books' characters--good and evil--are recognizably human, and the realism is deepened by the magnificent detail of the vast parallel world Tolkien devised, inspired partly by his influential Anglo-Saxon scholarship and his Christian beliefs. (He disapproved of the relative sparseness of detail in the comparable allegorical fantasy his friend C.S. Lewis dreamed up in The Chronicles of Narnia, though he knew Lewis had spun a page-turning yarn.) It has been estimated that one-tenth of all paperbacks sold can trace their ancestry to J.R.R. Tolkien. But even if we had never gotten Robert Jordan's The Path of Daggers and the whole fantasy genre Tolkien inadvertently created by bringing the hobbits so richly to life, Tolkien's epic about the Ring would have left our world enhanced by enchantment. --Tim Appelo
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2397 Reviews
| From: Amazon Posted: May 28, 2008 Type: User Review |
Lord of the Rings Trilogy & The Hobbit
Saw the movies, loved them. Read the first book, hard to follow but good. Glad I saw the movies first.
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 5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: May 27, 2008 Type: User Review |
The source by which all other fantasy is judged....
There isn't much that I could say about Tolkien's masterpiece that hasn't already been said, and while the movie's pacing was much stronger, one can't deny the power that these books have had over readers for all these years. Tolkien's wit and...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 18, 2008 Type: User Review |
Classics and a must read for any serious reader
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| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 25, 2008 Type: User Review |
Fascinating!
I never watched the films. Friends kept telling me too, but I just couldn't get into them. I decided to get the books and read them first. Luckily, I got a boxed set, so I can go from one to the other. I love the books!! The writing is so...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 29, 2008 Type: User Review |
British version of 3-volume box set (red cloth)
The photo Amazon provides for this set is misleading. It shows a book that is very tall and narrow, perhaps a ratio of 2.5:1. Look at the dimensions given in the publication data section and you will see that this is simply the UK/HarperCollins...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 23, 2008 Type: User Review |
Quality
It is a good quality to read. There are friendship, responsibility, and adventure in this book.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 09, 2008 Type: User Review |
Happy with product, but not exactly what I ordered
I ordered this version of the box set (the one with the movie shots on the covers), but I received a different one, still very nice, but not the movie ones. Also, upon receipt of the product, the outer box was crushed. All of the books are still...
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4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 07, 2008 Type: User Review |
was very impressed
I was very impressed with the prompt delivery and the books themself. I was also bery much surprised at the price. I will keep doin business with Amazon.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 07, 2008 Type: User Review |
was very impressed
I was very impressed with the prompt delivery and the books themself. I was also bery much surprised at the price. I will keep doin business with Amazon.
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 01, 2008 Type: User Review |
Tolkein has become a part of western literature.
As good as the Ring Trilogy films are, there is much to be gained from reading Tolkien's originals. I hesitate to call them novels, more like sagas. The character development is richer and memorable. The linkage between the myths that formed...
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