The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit [Abridged] [Box set]

The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit [Abridged] [Box set]

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
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 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

The New York Times
"The Lord of the Rings is an extraordinary work -- pure excitement". --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit [Abridged] [Box set]

The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit,J. R. R. Tolkien,Highbridge Audio,1565117077,Audio - Fiction - General,Audio Adult: Books On Tape,Fiction,General,Literary,Unabridged Audio - Fiction/General,Fiction / General

Book Updates:

1. The Magic Journey : A Novel
2. The Manor and the Estate (Library Of World Fiction)
3. The Mauritius Command: Library Edition (Aubrey-Maturin (Audio)) [Unabridged]
4. The Mystery of Things (Ashland Grail Cycle ; Bk. 1)
5. The Nightingale Papers
6. The Northern Lights : A Novel
7. The Oldest Orphan: L'Aine Des Orphelins
8. The Reprieve : A Novel (Vintage International)
9. The Song at the Scaffold: A Novel of Horror and Holiness in the Reign of Terror
10. The Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities, Novella (Goethe: The Collected Works, Vol. 11)

Book Updates

Recommended Books

1. Equus: The Creation of a Horse
2. Magical Pokemon, Volume 2 : Cooking With Jigglypuff
3. The Untouchables
4. The Software Vulnerability Guide
5. Understanding Learning at Work
6. Universe in a Nutshell/Illustrated Brief History of Time
7. Theoretical Heterogeneous Catalysis
8. The Year in Dyslipidaemia 2003
9. Ward No. 6 and Other Stories
10. User's Guide to Calcium and Magnesium: Learn What You Need to Know About How These Nutrients Build S
11. Warman's American Records, 1950-2000: Identification & Price Guide
12. The Swedish Room
13. Unrepentant Sinner : The Autobiography Of Col. Charles Askins
14. The Nuclear Power Deception: US nuclear mythology from electricity "too cheap to meter" to
15. The Rough Guide To New Zealand - 4th Edition