The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings Boxed Set: Illustrated edition

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After serving in the First World War, he became best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, selling 150 million copies in more than 40 languages worldwide. Given the length of the book, paper heavy enough to eliminate show-through completely would make for a more cumbersome volume. Part two addresses Christian typology, explaining how characters, places and events in The Lord of the Rings are similar to certain types found in the Bible, and illuminates how this offers greater insight into the influences behind Tolkien’s sub-creation.

Inside, the book includes thirty-two of Tolkien’s illustrations and maps, along with the pages of the Book of Mazarbul (from the Dwarves’ ill-fated attempt to retake Moria), whose pages Tolkien had created to include in the initial editions, but were nixed by the publisher due to the high cost of the recreation in publication.This great modern classic is accompanied by a wealth of beautiful watercolour paintings and delicate pencil drawings from Alan Lee. Folio commissioned Hokyoung Kim for the artwork, while the late author’s wife, Wendy Benchley, provides a fascinating new introduction. If there is any work of fiction that deserves to be owned in a magnificent edition – this is surely it.

Leaving his comfortable hobbit hole Bilbo Baggins goes on a reluctant adventure to defeat a dragon, and along the way he encounters the vile, but pathetic Gollum, and his ‘Precious’ – a ring to rule them all. For further information about your statutory rights, contact your local authority Trading Standards department or consumer advice centre (for example the Citizen's Advice Bureau if you are in the UK). Like the One Ring, it compels touching, caressing, and endless, bitter glares from all those battered, trusted and much-thumbed older editions already sitting on the shelves, patiently waiting to be taken up again.But this limited-edition set of magnificently illustrated LOTR books feels like it could give even The One Ring a run for its money. A peculiar decision was to include the maps loose when they could easily have been bound into the book. Covers blocked in gold and maps of Middle Earth as endpapers complete this superb edition of one the world’s favourite stories. Boxed gift set of Tolkien's classic masterpieces, fully illustrated throughout in watercolour by the acclaimed and award-winning artist, Alan Lee, Conceptual Designer on Peter Jackson's THE HOBBIT films. But if you’re more of a reader than a watcher I’ve also summed up my thoughts a week after recieving them too.

Featuring a fascinating introduction by Val McDermid and new illustrations by Juan Esteban Rodríguez, each copy has been signed by both the introducer and the illustrator. More than 150 million copies of its many editions have been sold around the world, and occasional collectors’ editions become prized and valuable items of publishing.

Yes, Frodo was the Ring Bearer, but if not for Sam, he wouldn’t have even brought the formidable thing to the Cracks of Doom.