The Lord Of The Rings Deluxe Edition,New

Immerse Yourself In Middleearth With J.R.R. Tolkiens 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 Indexa Mustown 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 Elvensmiths, 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 Middleearth, 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 Eleventyfirst Birthday He Disappeared, Bequeathing To His Young Cousin Frodo The Ruling Ring And A Perilous Quest: To Journey Across Middleearth, 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 (18921973), Beloved Throughout The World As The Creator Of The Hobbit, The Lord Of The Rings, And The Silmarillion, Was A Professor Of Anglosaxon 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.