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The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition)
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Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition) Description
Binding: Leather Bound
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
EAN: 9780618517657
ISBN: 0618517650
Label: Houghton Mifflin
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 1184
Publication Date: 2004-10-21
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Product Release Date: 2004-10-21
Studio: Houghton Mifflin
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
EAN: 9780618517657
ISBN: 0618517650
Label: Houghton Mifflin
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 1184
Publication Date: 2004-10-21
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Product Release Date: 2004-10-21
Studio: Houghton Mifflin
Editorial Review of The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition)
The Fellowship of the Ring, part one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic masterpiece, fist reached these shores on October 21, 1954, arriving, as C. S. Lewis proclaimed, "like lightning from a clear sky." Fifty years and nearly one hundred million American readers later comes a beautiful new one-volume collector’s edition befitting the stature of this crown jewel of our list. With a text fully corrected under the supervision of Christopher Tolkien to meet the author’s exacting wishes, two large-format fold-out maps, a ribbon placemarker, gilded page edges, a color insert depicting Tolkien's own paintings of the Book of Mazarbul and exceptionally elegant and sturdy overall packaging housed within an attractive slipcase, this edition is the finest we’ve ever produced.
Customer Reviews of The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition)
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Review Summary: This is what Sam was talking about.
Review: When Frodo and Sam are on the stairs of Cirith Ungol and discussing stories and adventures Sam says: "We're in one, of course; but I mean: put into words, you know, told by the fireside, or read out of a great big book with red and black letters, years and years afterwards." Though this edition has less of the red letters than the Collectors Edition dose (page numbers etc.) this is the great big book Sam was talking about. To me, making that connection between the story and the physical book makes the experience all the more real in your mind. Plus the binding in this Leather edition seems much more durable than the Leatherette Collectors edition; the binding dose not want to bend when opened in the middle and the book will lay flat. I foresee myself reading this copy many times through out my life because that is what it was meant for. A book is not a book unless it is read and this is, and will always be, my most prized book.
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Review Summary: Absolutely Beautiful! Tolkien would be proud!
Review: This is what JRR Tolkien wanted! Not three individual books, but one epic! Beautiful dustcover to cover the big book. NOTE: the book is actually more fabric-y than leatherbound, but still beautful.
The best edition of the book I have ever seen.
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Review Summary: Review
Review: I think it is a very nice book, the maps add great character. It is a perfect gift fo any Lord of the Rings fan.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Wonderful
Review: We are very pleased with the 50th Anniversary Edition. It is worth the money.
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Review Summary: Homely, Epic, Monstrous!
Review: C. S. Lewis is often quoted in describing the revolutionary effect of *The Lord of the Rings* on 20th-century literature. And with good reason. He was, after all, the first bona fide fan of Tolkien's great work, even years before LoftR was finally published.
Back in the 30s, 40s and 50s, Fantasy in the vein of Tolkien was not exactly in vogue, and C. S. Lewis considered himself somewhat old-fashioned in his literary taste. But, as the 60s and subsequent decades would have it, his taste turned out to be ahead of his time, and today a mountain consisting of many Million Tolkien fans has raised C. S. Lewis to a pinnacle of special honor for having been the first *Lord of the Rings* fan.
That's why I thought readers might be interested - instead of just having a lowly peon like myself heap yet more praise on Tolkien - to read a few additional lines by C. S. Lewis about LoftR.
Lewis' description of the the trilogy as "lightening from a clear sky" is well known, but he also wrote a blurb for LoftR. He did it because Tolkien's publisher, Sir Stanley Unwin, found the book so difficult to describe and therefore asked Lewis to write something that might serve as a blurb on the cover (although I'm not sure if it was ever used for that purpose).
This is Lewis' blurb, dated Dec 4, 1953:
"It would be almost safe to say that no book like this has ever been written. If Ariosto rivalled it in invention (in fact he does not) he would still lack its heroic seriousness. No imaginary world has been projected which is at once so multifarious and so true to its own inner laws; none so seemingly objective, so disinfected from the taint of an author's merely individual psychology; none so relevant to the actual human situation yet so free from allegory. And what fine shading there is in the variations of style to meet the almost endless diversity of scenes and characters - comic, homely, epic, monstrous, or diabolic!"
What else can I add but to say that I share C. S. Lewis' enthusiasm? LoftR was my introduction to Fantasy literature, and I'll keep coming back to it.
Review Summary: This is what Sam was talking about.
Review: When Frodo and Sam are on the stairs of Cirith Ungol and discussing stories and adventures Sam says: "We're in one, of course; but I mean: put into words, you know, told by the fireside, or read out of a great big book with red and black letters, years and years afterwards." Though this edition has less of the red letters than the Collectors Edition dose (page numbers etc.) this is the great big book Sam was talking about. To me, making that connection between the story and the physical book makes the experience all the more real in your mind. Plus the binding in this Leather edition seems much more durable than the Leatherette Collectors edition; the binding dose not want to bend when opened in the middle and the book will lay flat. I foresee myself reading this copy many times through out my life because that is what it was meant for. A book is not a book unless it is read and this is, and will always be, my most prized book.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Absolutely Beautiful! Tolkien would be proud!
Review: This is what JRR Tolkien wanted! Not three individual books, but one epic! Beautiful dustcover to cover the big book. NOTE: the book is actually more fabric-y than leatherbound, but still beautful.
The best edition of the book I have ever seen.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Review
Review: I think it is a very nice book, the maps add great character. It is a perfect gift fo any Lord of the Rings fan.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Wonderful
Review: We are very pleased with the 50th Anniversary Edition. It is worth the money.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Homely, Epic, Monstrous!
Review: C. S. Lewis is often quoted in describing the revolutionary effect of *The Lord of the Rings* on 20th-century literature. And with good reason. He was, after all, the first bona fide fan of Tolkien's great work, even years before LoftR was finally published.
Back in the 30s, 40s and 50s, Fantasy in the vein of Tolkien was not exactly in vogue, and C. S. Lewis considered himself somewhat old-fashioned in his literary taste. But, as the 60s and subsequent decades would have it, his taste turned out to be ahead of his time, and today a mountain consisting of many Million Tolkien fans has raised C. S. Lewis to a pinnacle of special honor for having been the first *Lord of the Rings* fan.
That's why I thought readers might be interested - instead of just having a lowly peon like myself heap yet more praise on Tolkien - to read a few additional lines by C. S. Lewis about LoftR.
Lewis' description of the the trilogy as "lightening from a clear sky" is well known, but he also wrote a blurb for LoftR. He did it because Tolkien's publisher, Sir Stanley Unwin, found the book so difficult to describe and therefore asked Lewis to write something that might serve as a blurb on the cover (although I'm not sure if it was ever used for that purpose).
This is Lewis' blurb, dated Dec 4, 1953:
"It would be almost safe to say that no book like this has ever been written. If Ariosto rivalled it in invention (in fact he does not) he would still lack its heroic seriousness. No imaginary world has been projected which is at once so multifarious and so true to its own inner laws; none so seemingly objective, so disinfected from the taint of an author's merely individual psychology; none so relevant to the actual human situation yet so free from allegory. And what fine shading there is in the variations of style to meet the almost endless diversity of scenes and characters - comic, homely, epic, monstrous, or diabolic!"
What else can I add but to say that I share C. S. Lewis' enthusiasm? LoftR was my introduction to Fantasy literature, and I'll keep coming back to it.