The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

Being the first part of The Lord of the Rings

Hardcover, 423 pages

English language

Published July 27, 1988 by Houghton Mifflin Company.

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978-0-395-48931-4
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The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien's three-volume epic, is set in the imaginary world of Middle-earth - home to many strange beings, and most notably hobbits, a peace-loving "little people," cheerful and shy. Since its original British publication in 1954-55, the saga has entranced readers of all ages. It is at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale. Critic Michael Straight has hailed it as one of the "very few works of genius in recent literature."

Middle-earth is a world receptive to poets, scholars, children, and all other people of good will. Donald Barr has described it as "a scrubbed morning world, and a ringing nightmare world...especially sunlit, and shadowed by perils very fundamental, of a peculiarly uncompounded darkness."

The story of ths world is one of high and heroic adventure. Barr compared it to Beowulf, C.S. Lewis to Orlando Furioso, W.H. Auden to The Thirty-nine Steps. …

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And the plot thickens...when you finish this one, you'll be moving right over to the next in series; I love how each book builds on the previous, and I have not read a fantasy series which pulls off that trope that well in a very long time. Sending 2024 out with a fantasy bang.

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