JRR Tolkien THE LORD OF THE RINGS BCA 1980

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JRR Tolkien THE LORD OF THE RINGS BCA 1980

Book Club edition hardback of THE LORD OF THE RINGS, single volume, containing The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King, by J.R.R. Tolkien and published by Book Club Associates, London in 1980. 'CN 4303' stated inside the back flap.

The book is in very good- condition (Clean green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine which has minor creasing to the spine edges) with slight wear to the illustrated dust jacket which is not price clipped (unpriced) (light creasing/rubbing to the edges, small closed tears/ chipping to the spine edges mainly to the top, a 1 cm closed tear to the top edge at the back and another near the bottom corner at the front, tiny nicks at the edges in a couple of places). The front and back endpapers are missing. There is minor tanning to the first and last few pages. Otherwise, internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions.

The Lord of the Rings is not a book to be described in a few sentences. It has been labelled both a heroic romance and a classic fantasy fiction. By an extraordinary feat of the imagination, JRR Tolkien has created, and maintains in every detail, a new mythology in an invented world. Its remarkable vividness and the narrative skill which carries the reader on, enthralled, for page after page.

The Fellowship of the Ring is the first book of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The trilogy consists of The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King. These three titles comprise the sequel to Tolkien's The Hobbit. The basis of the acclaimed Peter Jackson film which won eleven Academy Awards of the year in 2003.

The book first sets the stage for the adventure and follows Frodo Baggins as he flees from his home in the Shire to escape the minions of the Dark Lord Sauron. Sauron seeks the One Ring that will allow him to control the Bearers of the nineteen Lower Rings and control the three major races of Middle Earth, The Elves, The Men and The Dwarves. The One Ring has been inherited by Frodo who finds himself unwittingly in the midst of a struggle for world domination."

1077 pages. Illustrated with a few maps.

ISBN: n/a

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