The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary One-Volume, Hardcover
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The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary One-Volume, Hardcover   -     By: J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary One-Volume, Hardcover

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / 2005 / Hardcover

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One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.


The Lord of the Rings' classic tale has provided England with a mythology that seems as real as that of older lore. Following the quest of Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring to return the One Ring to Mordor, destroying Sauron and his armies in the hope of restoring peace to the lands of Middle Earth, this epic fantasy provides all the elements of a great tale and fantastic legend.

This 50th anniversary text is based on the setting of the HarperCollins three-volume hardcover edition of 2002, which was a revision of the HarperCollins reset edition of 1994.

Conveniently packaged in one volume, this 50th anniversary edition of JRR Tolkien's classic The Lord of the Rings maintains the breaks between the 3-volume set, as well as Tolkien's division of the text into six "books." Appendices and indexes are also included. 1178 pages, hardcover with dust jacket.

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Title: The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary One-Volume, Hardcover
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
Format: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 1177
Vendor: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication Date: 2005
Dimensions: 8.5 X 5.75 X 1.88 (inches)
Weight: 2 pounds 14 ounces
ISBN: 0618645616
ISBN-13: 9780618645619
Stock No: WW645619

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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.

This edition includes the fiftieth-anniversary fully corrected text setting and an extensive index.

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.

Praise for The Lord of the Rings

"An extraordinary work -- pure excitement." -- New York Times Book Review

"One of the great fairy-tale quests in modern literature." -- Time

"A remarkable book." -- Newsweek

"One of the very few works of genius in recent literature." -- New Republic

"A work of immense narrative power that can sweep the reader up and hold him enthralled for days and weeks." -- The Nation

"Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron." -- C. S. Lewis

"The first thing one asks of an adventure story is that the adventure should be various and exciting . . . Tolkien's invention is unflagging." -- W. H. Auden

"J.R.R. Tolkien's epic trilogy remains the ultimate quest, the ultimate battle between good and evil, the ultimate chronicle of stewardship of the earth. Endlessly imitated, it never has been surpassed." -- Kansas City Star

"A masterful story . . . an epic in its own way . . . with elements of high adventure, suspense, mystery, poetry, and fantasy." -- Boston Sunday Herald

Author Bio

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892–1973) was a distinguished academic, though he is best known for writing The HobbitThe Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, plus other stories and essays. His books have been translated into over sixty languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide.

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"A unique, wholly realized other world, evoked from deep in the well of Time, massively detailed, absorbingly entertaining, profound in meaning." The New York Times —

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