The Lord of the Rings (v.1)

'The Fellowship of the Ring' is the first part of JRR Tolkien's epic masterpiece 'The Lord of the Rings'. This paperback edition has the classic black cover featuring Tolkien's own design and includes the definitive edition of the text. In a sleepy village in the Shire, a young hobbit is entrusted with an immense task,. He must make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ruling Ring of Power -- the only thing that prevents the Dark Lord's evil purpose. JRR Tolkien's great work of imaginative fiction has been labelled both a heroic romance and a classic fantasy fiction. By turns comic and homely, epic and diabolic, the narrative moves through countless changes of scene and character in an imaginary world which is totally convincing in its detail. Part of a set of three paperbacks, this popular edition is once again available in its classic black livery designed by Tolkien himself.

ISBN 0261102354   Part volume Fellowship of the Ring ISBN13 9780261102354 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 289 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers   Published in London Imprint HarperCollins Publishers Ltd   Series title The lord of the rings Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780007203581 Publication date 13 Nov 1991   Height (mm) 178 DEWEY 823.912   Width (mm) 111 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General Pages 576

'An extraordinary book. It deals with a stupendous theme. It leads us through a succession of strange and astonishing episodes, some of them magnificent, in a region where everything is invented, forest, moor, river, wilderness, town and the races which inhabit them.' The Observer 'Among the greatest works of imaginative fiction of the twentieth century.' Sunday Telegraph

This story has everything. Across the three books which make up the trilogy that is The Lord of the Rings, the themes of friendship, love, bravery, tragedy, loss, redemption are all explored. Epic battles rage as good and evil collide and the characters are all well developed. - shao-ying ben-nathan

an all-time fantasy classic unsurpassed even today - Phil Holland

I first read this book 35 years ago, at the age of 11 and, time and time again, it has been the book I have gone back to when I have a hankering for a great magical adventure.
The very fist time I read it, my copy was from the library at school,and was the complete three books in one, and my English teacher, who was the librarian there, didn't think I could manage to finish it in the 3 weeks we were given.It took me 2 days of reading solidly to read it from cover to cover - I even stayed awake for most of the night, reading under the covers with a torch, so I didn't have to stop reading it!
I couldn't put it down from the first paragraph, and my English teacher didn't believe I'd read it all when I took it back on the third day - I had to write a thorough book review before he believed me!
From that moment on, no matter how many books I've read over the years, The Lord Of The Rings has been a constant, and much loved, companion to me.
As I've aged, each time I reread the book, which I do at least once a year, I find something else I either hadn't noticed before, or suddenly realise the reasoning behind an action or phrase, so each reading becomes a new discovery for me. - Mrs K Board

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