Immerse yourself in Middle-earth with J.R.R. Tolkien's classic
masterpieces behind the films...
This special 50th anniversary edition includes three volumes of
The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers,
and The Return of the King), along with an extensive new index--a
must-own tome for old and new Tolkien readers alike.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them
all and in the darkness bind them.
In 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. 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.
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.
