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| J.R.R. Tolkien Boxed Set (The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings) | 
| Author: J.r.r. Tolkien
Publisher: Del Rey
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1242 reviews
Sales Rank: 2824
Format: Box Set
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 4.4 x 4.2
ISBN: 0345340426
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780345340429
ASIN: 0345340426
Publication Date: January 1, 2001
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Amazon.com Review
Hobbits and wizards and Sauron--oh, my! Mild-mannered Oxford scholar John Ronald Reuel Tolkien had little inkling when he published The Hobbit; Or, There and Back Again in 1937 that, once hobbits were unleashed upon the world, there would be no turning back. Hobbits are, of course, small, furry creatures who love nothing better than a leisurely life quite free from adventure. But in that first novel and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the hobbits Bilbo and Frodo and their elfish friends get swept up into a mighty conflict with the dragon Smaug, the dark lord Sauron (who owes much to proud Satan in Paradise Lost), the monstrous Gollum, the Cracks of Doom, and the awful power of the magical Ring. The four books' characters--good and evil--are recognizably human, and the realism is deepened by the magnificent detail of the vast parallel world Tolkien devised, inspired partly by his influential Anglo-Saxon scholarship and his Christian beliefs. (He disapproved of the relative sparseness of detail in the comparable allegorical fantasy his friend C.S. Lewis dreamed up in The Chronicles of Narnia, though he knew Lewis had spun a page-turning yarn.) It has been estimated that one-tenth of all paperbacks sold can trace their ancestry to J.R.R. Tolkien. But even if we had never gotten Robert Jordan's The Path of Daggers and the whole fantasy genre Tolkien inadvertently created by bringing the hobbits so richly to life, Tolkien's epic about the Ring would have left our world enhanced by enchantment. --Tim Appelo
Product Description
Contains The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King
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 I love "The Hobbit" and "LOTR". October 26, 2008
I love "The Hobbit" and "LOTR" series of books they are really fantastic works of fantasy-literature. I do own both "The Hobbit" and "LOTR" books and they are one of my many top favourite bookseries ever to be penned. I am glad I got a different edition of the books that stay together, have good drawings of Middle-Earth, and have the sentences worded correctly.
I looked at versions of these books seperately in the store and thought WOW! what a generic version trying to pass on us avid readers and "LOTR" fans. I would suggest buying the Houghin Mifflin versions of "The Hobbit" and all three volumes of "The Lord Of The Rings". To the reviewer's who cover came off of "The Hobbit" I am glad you were able to return this boxset and able to get better versions of the books.
Box set (The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings) September 8, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Books in nice condition, only slight wear from shelving; the box corner is slightly torn though.
Timely delivered.
Thanks
 "The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings", book set by J.R.R. Tolkien August 31, 2008
The classic and age old story of good vs. evil told in a way that captures the imagination from the first book to the last. Books to gather enjoyment and wisdom from as the tale unfolds: "The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater..." - Haldir, Elf of Lothlorien ("The Fellowship of the Ring")
Good Book August 25, 2008
Good Book to read in an airplane or bus or train, to kill time. However, it is easy to lose its own original binding shape after a few readings.
Great books but too descriptive August 22, 2008
The best books set I've gotten thus far. However too descriptive, it makes me sleepy since I'm suspension and adventure story lover. I know it has adventure and fantasy but again, too descriptive, just like Frankenstein.
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