Author:J.R.R. Tolkien Binding: Paperback Published: 1986-09-12 ISBN: 0345340426 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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"J.R.R. Tolkien boxed set The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings"
"I love "The Hobbit" and "LOTR"."
"Box set (The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings)"
""The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings", book set by J.R.R. Tolkien"
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Contains The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, 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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J.R.R. Tolkien boxed set The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings No Problems. I received the set as advertised and faster than I expected to receive it. The set was in new condition. I trust Amazon with my on-line purchases.
I love "The Hobbit" and "LOTR". I love "The Hobbit" and "LOTR" series of books they are really fantastic works of fantasy-literature. I do own both "The Hobbit" and "LOTR" books and they are one of my many top favourite bookseries ever to be penned. I am glad I got a different edition of the books that stay together, have good drawings of Middle-Earth, and have the sentences worded correctly. I looked at versions of these books seperately in the store and thought WOW! what a generic version trying to pass on us avid readers and... more info
Box set (The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings) Books in nice condition, only slight wear from shelving; the box corner is slightly torn though.
Timely delivered. Thanks
"The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings", book set by J.R.R. Tolkien The classic and age old story of good vs. evil told in a way that captures the imagination from the first book to the last. Books to gather enjoyment and wisdom from as the tale unfolds: "The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater..." - Haldir, Elf of Lothlorien ("The Fellowship of the Ring")
