The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | Outstanding edition of the LOTR Trilogy!

The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | Need I say more

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The Lord of the Rings

	The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien Houghton Mifflin, 2002 - 1216 pages average customer review:based on 125 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Outstanding edition of the LOTR Trilogy! - (0618260587)

I have to say that this edition is outstandingly the best one out there today. Houghton Mifflin has done a great job at compiling and designing the books. The set is particularly beautiful with artwork by the already famous Alan Lee. I have to agree that this edition surpass the 1988 edition (ISBN: 0395489326) by FAR! The 1988 edition was poorly done and had sloppy printing.

Books are well-produced with sturdy hardcovers. The binding is bound in red cloth. All three books have dustcovers with extraordinary artwork by Alan Lee - each shows a scene from the book that it is in. All three books have a map of "Middle-Earth" on the inside of the front and back flaps. The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers show the whole map of "Middle-Earth". Whereas, The Return of the King shows the concentrated map of Rohan, Gondor, and Mordor section only. I think it is very fitting since The Return of the King takes place around Mordor. It would be even better if Houghton Mifflin made a fold-out map of "Middle-Earth" to go along with this edition.

The drawback of this edition is the glossy format that can reflect glare light that may disturb some readers. The books are somewhat large and overweight, but very solid and sturdy.

This edition of The Lord of the Rings is very compatable with the Houghton Mifflin's edition of "The Hobbit" (ISBN: 0395873460) and "The Silmarillion" (ISBN: 0618391118). Both editions have the same format and size as the LOTR SET. I truly recommend all!

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Need I say more

First read this when I was but a wee lad, great books a must read, why it reminds me of when I was a wee wee lad and my brother Charles Chadwick told me that he thought Smedley (a bona fide little person who live up the road from us) had some firecrackers and maybe we should pay him a visit and maybe get to light some off! Well we hopped on the tractor and drove down to his house,farm country if you must know.We saw him from a distance shooting hoops on his makeshift gravel court we drove up and he of course had a puzzled look on his face since we had never visited him before, we just rode the same school bus. Well as an ice breaker we played a game of horse, he won. Then he challenged us to a game, which hardly seemed fair since he was a little person like the Dwarf in "Lord of The Rings" , we took him up on it and were soundly trounced, he had an amazing hook shot. Well my brother Charles Chadwick decided to broach the subject of firecrackers and Smedley didn't know what he was talking about, we followed him around abit and he showed us a 5 gallon bucket of grease for the tractors, we had never seen such a quantity of grease in our lives, pretty cool. As we were looking at the grease my brother Charles Chadwick told Smedley that he had dropped a quarter in the grease and he could have it if he dug it out, without hesitation Smedley reached elbow deep into the grease and then my brother Charles Chadwick laughed and said he didn't really, we all laughed, some more than others and thats about all I remember about that visit. But I digress, Lord of the Rings all the way! I found the Silmarillion a little difficult but you cant go wrong with the trilogy.

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This is the best thing I have ever read!!!

If you haven't read this you must its the best book of all by a long shot nothing comes close!!

True Masterpiece......

I love fantasy, so i read all the fantasy books, reading Lord Of the Rings is no exception even if the book took months to finish and maybe too advanced and confusing for me.
Still I read it after finishing the hobbit in curiousity who destroys the ring. I could have just flipped over the last page but I started from the beginning which had an intriguing plot because of the ring Sauron made. I could not stop reading it to see what happens in the next chapters.
That is what all the book should be like, dramatic and suspenseful, the book was like a movie. A few bad things about the book was that the story was overwhelmingly long, I get tired of the book and also the terms that J.R.R Tolkien used, made the storyline hard to follow especially for an illiterate like me. However, I would recommend it everybody and call it a true masterpiece anyway.....

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bit crap, really

When all is said and done, the Lord of the Rings is bit rubbish. It has a huge cast of characters, every one with a mythology behind them that is barely hinted at in the book (but is expanded on in the appendices and other works connected to Middle-Earth) and an amazing attention to details of towns, cities and landscapes, it has more songs than you can shake a stick at and it even has its own languages. Unfortunately, the plot is poor and Tolkien's ambition far exceeds his skills. His language is stilted to the highest degree, the language is fanciful and far too archaic and the dialogue is frankly awful. When a book's appendices are more interesting than the main text, you know you're in trouble. The problem is that the Lord of the Rings is caught halfway between "The Hobbit" (which is more colloquial and much more engaging), and what would become "The Silmarrilion", which has both a plot and a cast to match the pseudo-epic tone that Tolkien often adopts. You would probably be better off watching the films rather than reading the book with this one, simply because the films achieve everything that Tolkien fails to (although the last half-hour of the third film is truly awful). I would read this as a companion to the films, not as a work in its own right.

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