The Fellowship of the Ring - Revised Edition

By: J. R. R. Tolkien

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0052Z76K0
• Release Date: January 1967
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

You'd better go ahead and buy them all now.

Most people coming to this review already have a good idea of what the story is all about from either other readers or people who have seen the movies made from this three-part story. This story is not a trilogy; It is a three-part story, so you can buy the individual books, but it might be prudent to buy all three at the same time or a combined volume. The reason I say buy the complete "Lord of the Rings" now is that you will just be picking up speed and getting everything straight in your mind, and you will come to the end of this volume. Talk about a cliffhanger. This animal leaves you with several. Even though the adventure takes place six years after the adventures in Tolkien's "The Hobbit or There and Back Again", the writing style is also a little more in-depth. I am not going to paraphrase the story. J.R.R. Tolkien himself tells you what you need to know in the prologue. Many people have read things into this story, thinking it was maybe an allegory of things like the bomb, but Tolkien says that this is not an allegory. Tolkien creates a rich world in which the reader will feel you are part of the adventure. If you've only seen the movies, then you've only seen a synopsis, and you will not be disappointed in this book. A note for the serious collectors: owning both the pre‑1965 and post‑1965 texts is the “complete Tolkien” move. The 1965 Revised Edition (Tolkien‑approved corrections) corrected chronology standardized Elvish fixed typos and inconsistencies cleaned‑up dialogue punctuation updated map details The corrected Ithilien paragraph