UPC 790405084261

• ISBN - 10:0618517650; ISBN - 13:9780618517657; Product Group: Book
• Language: English; Topic: Classics; Publication Date: 2004-10-21
• Topic: Epic Author: J.R.R. Tolkien; Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Co
• Format: Hardcover; Edition: 50th Anniversary Edition; Number Of Pages: 1184
• Shipping Weight - 4.56; Item Dimensions - H 2 inches L 9 inches W 6.6 inches

The Fellowship of the Ring, part one of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic masterpiece, fist reached these shores on October 21, 1954, arriving, as C. S. Lewis proclaimed, "like lightning from a clear sky." Fifty years and nearly one hundred million American readers later comes a beautiful new one-volume collector's edition befitting the stature of this crown jewel of our list. With a text fully corrected under the supervision of Christopher Tolkien to meet the author's exacting wishes, two large-format fold-out maps, a ribbon placemarker, gilded page edges, a color insert depicting Tolkien's own paintings of the Book of Mazarbul and exceptionally elegant and sturdy overall packaging housed within an attractive slipcase, this edition is the finest we've ever produced. Not just revolutionary because it was groundbreaking, the Lord of the Rings is timeless because it's the product of a truly top-shelf mind. Tolkien was a distinguished linguist and Oxford scholar of dead languages, with strong ideas about the importance of myth and story and a deep appreciation of nature. His epic, 10 years in the making, recounts the Great War of the Ring and the closing of Middle-Earth's Third Age, a time when magic begins to fade from the world and men rise to dominance. Tolkien carefully details this transition with tremendous skill and love, creating in the Lord of the Rings a universal and all-embracing tale, a justly celebrated classic. Paul Hughes