Author: J R R Tolkien
Publisher: HarperCollins
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 1137
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0007123817
Description
This one volume paperback edition includes the complete unabridged text of the three books, 'The Fellowship of the Ring' ; 'The Two Towers' and 'The Return of the King', that together make up 'The Lord of the Rings', the index and full appendices.
Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him the Rings of Power - the means by which he will be able to rule the world. All he lacks in his plan for dominion is the Ruling Ring, which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.
In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as the Ring is entrusted to his care. He must leave his home and make a perilous journey across the realms of Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, deep inside the territories of the Dark Lord. There he must destroy the Ring forever and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.
REVIEWS:
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.
—Sunday Times
A story magnificently told, with every kind of color and movement and greatness.
—New Statesman
Contents
Note on the Text
Foreword to the Second Edition
Prologue Concerning Hobbits, and other matters
THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
BOOK ONE
A Long-expected Party
The Shadow of the Past
Three is Company
A Short Cut to Mushrooms
A Conspiracy Unmasked
The Old Forest
In the House of Tom Bobadil
Fog on the Barrow-downs
At the Sign of the Prancing Pony
Strider
A Knife in the Dark
Flight to the Ford
BOOK TWO
Many Meetings
The Council of Elrond
The Rise Goes South
A Journey in the Dark
The Bridge of Khazad-dum
Lothlorien
The Mirror of Galadried
Farewell to lorien
The Great River
The Breaking of the Fellowship
THE TWO TOWERS
BOOK THREE
The Departure of Boromir
The Riders of Roham
The Uruk-hai
Treebeard
The White Rider
The King of the Golden Hall
Helm’s Deep
The Road to Isengard
Flotsam and Jetsam
The Voice of Saruman
The Palantir
BOOK FOUR
The Taming of Smeagol
The Passage of the Marshes
The Black Gate in Closed
Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
The Window on the West
The Forbiden Pool
Journey to the Cross-road
The Stairs of Cirith Ungol
Shelob’s Lair
The Choices of Master Samwise
THE RETURN OF THE KING
BOOK FIVE
Minas Tirith
The passing of the Grey Company
The Muster of Rohan
The Siege of Gondor
The Ride of the Rohirrim
The Battle of the Pelennor Fields
The Pyre of Denethor
The House of Healing
The Last Debate
The Black Gate Opens
BOOK SIX
The Tower of Cirith Ungol
The Land of Shadow
Mount Doom
The Field of Cormallen
The Steward and the King
Many Partings
Homeward Bound
The Scouring of the Shine
The Grey Havens
APPENDICES
A: ANNALS OF THE KING AND RULERS
The Numenorean Kings
The House of Eorl
Durin’s Folk
B: THE TALE OF YEARS (CHRONOLOGY OF THE WESTLANDS)
C: FAMILY TREES
D: CALENDARS
D: WRITING AND SPELLING
Pronunciation of Words and Names
Writing
F: The Languages and People of the Third Age
On Translation
INDEXES
Songs and Verses
Persons, Beasts and Monsters
Places
Things