The Lord of the Rings / The Hobbit (4 Volumes)

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R. Tolkien (1892–1973) was a distinguished academic, though he is best known for writing The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, plus other stories and essays. Beginning with Bilbo’s fateful visit from Gandalf and culminating in the dramatic climax between Frodo and Gollum atop Mount Doom and Bilbo’s departure to the Grey Havens! I love getting to know an author that way and being able to see little bits of their personality come out in their works (like the fact that Tolkien loved smoking a pipe--does all the pipe smoking in the book make more sense now?

As a translator, Tolkien was intimately knowledgeable with these stories, the myths behind them, and the languages that underpinned them, and endeavored to recreate their form. The book did have very minor little scratches but I don't really care abt that, I feel like it adds to them. I got this bookset for christmas ( I have yet to read them but I already know they are amazing ) andd its just so pretty and will look beautiful on my shelf.

Tolkien’s most popular works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set in Middle-earth, an imagined world with strangely familiar settings inhabited by ancient and extraordinary peoples. The English-speaking world is divided into those who have read The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit and those who are going to read them. At first the idea of following several characters quite separately may be quite unusual, even a little daunting. Although LoftR is a "pagan" story (no religion) it is filled with Christian themes of mercy, free will, divine mission, and hope, individual worth, and salvation. Now, the new hardback editions of these beautifully illustrated works have been collected together into one boxed set of four books.

I knew going into reading there wasn't going to be a lot of Bilbo, but that didn't stop me from reading ahead occasionally to see when his name would pop up next. One event after another, crisis after epic excitement, wonder at the enormity of the main character's daring and courage.Full details of your rights under the Distance Selling Regulations are available in the UK from your local Citizens' Advice Bureau or your Local Authority's Trading Standards Office.