The Lord of the Rings - Ibbtown 📚 Books

[electronic resource]

Sprache: English

Am 14. August 2009 von HarperCollins veröffentlicht.

ISBN:: 978-0-06-191780-6

All three parts of the epic masterpiece combined in one definitive edition of the text.Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power – the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring – the ring that rules them all – which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as the Ring is entrusted to his care. He must leave his home and make a perilous journey across the realms of Middle-earth to the Crack of Doom, deep inside the territories of the Dark Lord. There he must destroy the Ring forever and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose. Since it was first published in 1954, The Lord of the Rings has …

All three parts of the epic masterpiece combined in one definitive edition of the text.Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power – the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring – the ring that rules them all – which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as the Ring is entrusted to his care. He must leave his home and make a perilous journey across the realms of Middle-earth to the Crack of Doom, deep inside the territories of the Dark Lord. There he must destroy the Ring forever and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose. Since it was first published in 1954, The Lord of the Rings has been a book people have treasured. Steeped in unrivalled magic and otherworldliness, its sweeping fantasy has touched the hearts of young and old alike.

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Don't Skip The Final Chapters

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If you are in need of a thoughtful, well written review of the three books constituting the Lord of the Rings trilogy, please look elsewhere. I decided to reread J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" for the fist time since I read the trilogy of books when I was in Junior High School some forty years ago. The blue, green and red paperback books purchased from a Scholastic Book Fair that first I read did not survive my many house moves in the intervening years. Much later, I had purchased a copy of the 1991 Special Edition beautifully illustrated by Alan Lee which sat on a bookshelf for several years until recently unread. When I finally did pull the heavy single volume down, I found it almost too heavy to hold in my lap to read. So I went out to my local used book store (Recycled Books in …

If you are in need of a thoughtful, well written review of the three books constituting the Lord of the Rings trilogy, please look elsewhere. I decided to reread J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" for the fist time since I read the trilogy of books when I was in Junior High School some forty years ago. The blue, green and red paperback books purchased from a Scholastic Book Fair that first I read did not survive my many house moves in the intervening years. Much later, I had purchased a copy of the 1991 Special Edition beautifully illustrated by Alan Lee which sat on a bookshelf for several years until recently unread. When I finally did pull the heavy single volume down, I found it almost too heavy to hold in my lap to read. So I went out to my local used book store (Recycled Books in San Jose) and bought the slightly smaller, hardcover movie tie-in edition that is the subject of this review. Because this edition of the LotR trilogy was first printed in 1994, the only evidence of the Peter Jackson film adaptation is limited to the graphic design of the dust jacket. The plates used to print the book I read were apparently worn and left some blemishes which rendered one or two letters illegible on a few of he pages, but the text overall was perfectly comprehensible. The Lord of the Rings trilogy of books was originally published in the middle of the previous century and has been read by millions of readers in several languages around the world. Consequently, the books have been extensively reviewed by many professional journalists over the decades. The purpose of this review is to encourage readers of the LotR trilogy to not stop reading at the apparent climax of the story that occurs in the middle of "Book Six". I found the closing chapters to be a necessary and rewarding "cool-down" from the world-ending consequence, action and questing of the preceding 930 or so pages. The penultimate chapter was particularly fun to read as battle-hardened heroes return from their quest to find their home in disarray and must rally fellow villagers to set things right.