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Summary: The Lord of the Ring's (Collector's Edition)
Review: What can be better than reading the three greatest books--"The Fellowship of the Ring," "The Two Towers," and "The Return of the King"--ever written? Having a leather-bound volume with all three together is better. If you are a fan of the books or you have a loved one that is, this is the best edition to own. It has a big fold-out map in the back for reference, all the references you can think of, and a really neat red leather cover. I have had this edition for 20 years and it's still in excellent condition. Well worth the cost.
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Summary: The Epitome of Excellent on White Paper
Review: Outside of The Bible, The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien is simply the best book written in all of time. On a scale of 1 - 10 it is a 100. Nothing in any genre has ever been written better. Originally designed as a six-book, three-volume work, the wonderful people at Houghton Mifflin Company have published the books in an awesome one-volume, leather-bound collector's edition for easy reading (and many re-readings). I am only sixteen, but I am constantly reading, and let me tell you now that nobody beats Tolkien; and nothing beats The Lord of the Rings! Read this book and join the largest group of fans to ever walk the earth.
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Summary: Collectors beware
Review: Ok so the world is a big place and it's full of strange people but I am surprised that anyone could be very impressed with the "Leatherette" editions of LOTR and The Hobbit. These particular editions are not ones I can imagine any discerning collector would want to own.I bought the two books because I am not a fan of Alan Lee's work and I couldn't find any other current hardback editions that used Tolkien's original drawings, (as the "Leatherette" Hobbit does). The truth is though that these are the most tacky and tasteless editions I've seen and the print and paper quality of both books is very poor. The colouring of the drawings in The Hobbit is a disgrace and numerous pages in my copy of the LOTR were so smudged they were unreadable. Don't buy them if you haven't already and if you've already made the mistake send them back with a complaint and write a scathing review to try and save someone else the trouble.
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Summary: The Lord of the Ring's (Collector's Edition)
Review: What can be better than reading the three greatest books--"The Fellowship of the Ring," "The Two Towers," and "The Return of the King"--ever written? Having a leather-bound volume with all three together is better. If you are a fan of the books or you have a loved one that is, this is the best edition to own. It has a big fold-out map in the back for reference, all the references you can think of, and a really neat red leather cover. I have had this edition for 20 years and it's still in excellent condition. Well worth the cost.
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Summary: A very valuable and worthy book
Review: Okay, so I've only read the last two books of the series and the Hobbit, so what? Ive seen the first two movies, and I bought the last one, but it hasn't come yet, and I'm reading the first one now, and so far it's terrific! I'm so glad someone has taken the time to put this book together, and I don't have it , but I saw one version of it at Books A Million (I think it was without Alan Lee's beautiful illustrations), and it looked terrific. It wasn't very large, and I would feel comfortble carrying it around, if I didn't feel it was so valuable. I think it's worth the price, because Alan's illustrations are very valuable to me. I espcially love his drawings of Rivendell, and I hope that one day I could possibly learn to draw like that instead of just cartoons. In case you didn't know, I only just turned 12, but I wanted to make the adult's review-thing because I don't want anybody to think I'm childish, because I value the Tolkien books as much as someone twice my age, and I think it's terrific to see such a great deal for all of the Lord of the Rings series combined, especially with such gorgeuos illustrations.
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Summary: Collectors beware
Review: Ok so the world is a big place and it's full of strange people but I am surprised that anyone could be very impressed with the "Leatherette" editions of LOTR and The Hobbit. These particular editions are not ones I can imagine any discerning collector would want to own. I bought the two books because I am not a fan of Alan Lee's work and I couldn't find any other current hardback editions that used Tolkien's original drawings, (as the "Leatherette" Hobbit does). The truth is though that these are the most tacky and tasteless editions I've seen and the print and paper quality of both books is very poor. The colouring of the drawings in The Hobbit is a disgrace and numerous pages in my copy of the LOTR were so smudged they were unreadable. Don't buy them if you haven't already and if you've already made the mistake send them back with a complaint and write a scathing review to try and save someone else the trouble.
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Summary: The grandfather of all fantasy
Review: Without the Lord of the Rings, we wouldn't have any great fantasy; not Star Wars, Thomas Covenant, or the Shanarra books. Reading the trilogy, you see how Tolkien has been borrowed from by so many of the great authors. The range of emotions encapsulated herein are far and wide. There is the warmth of the Hobbit's hominess, the nobility exhibited by most of the characters; Aragorn, even Boromir, and yes, the Hobbits. The power of evil is great, but in the face of such love and courage, it is rendered nothing, and all the sadness becomes untrue. Even if you have seen all the movies, you can't say there's no point in reading the books. While Peter Jackson's films are magnificent, they are not the books. The books have unusual turns of phrase and poetry, insights into the characters that film just cannot convey. See the movies and read the books both. While in most cases, the only way the movie can equal or surpass the book is if the book merely adapts the movie, in this case, the two are equals, complementary to one another.
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Summary: Mediocre at best...
Review: Regarding the Leatherette edition: overpriced and of mediocre quality. There are many older versions out there that are far superior. Try snatching one of them at an antique bookstore or something. Or just go for the nice Folio edition.
This 'leatherette' version is just fat and ugly.
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Summary: the lord of the rings
Review: This Legendary book that includes Hobbits, and huge trolls is a magnificent book for all ages. My name is Steven Johnson and I read this great book and it took my mom a lot of pulling to get me away from the lord of the rings. I know own all of the movies, that is how good this book is. J.R.R Tolkien is a great author and I recomend it to any person.
In Ancient times the ring of power was crafted by the elve-smiths. and saron, the great dark lord, forged the one ring, filling it with his own powers so that he could rule all others. But the one ring was taken from him, He hunted for it throughout Middle-Earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages, it fell by chance into the hands of Mr. Bilbo Baggans. From his fastness in the tower of Mordor, Sarons power grew far and wide. He gathered all the great rings, but always he searched for the one ring that would complete his Domaine.
On Bilbo's eleventh birthday, he disapeared, giving everthing to his young cousin, Frodo, the ruling ring an the pearl chest; to journey across Middle-Earth, deep into the powers of the dark lord, and distroying the ring in the crackes of mount Doom. Gandalf the Wizzard, The hobbits Mary, Pippen, and sam; Gimly the dwarf; Legolas the elf; Boromir of Gondor; and a tall mesterous stranger called strider are the main characters in The Lord Of The Rings.
I think this is an Extraordinary work, and really exiting book and I recomend it to everyone. This book original copy was copywritten in 1937 but its new copy is just as good. The Lord Of The Rings has a mix of exsitment, scaryness, and servival so I hope you read this great book at least ounce. - Steven Johnson
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Summary: Overpriced, poor quality Leatherette edition...
Review: what is "leatherette" anyway? In this case it is cardboard, covered with a shiny red paper with a few stars embossed. I'm ashamed that the publisher could not do a better job with this edition. At a retail of $75 it should have had better paper, an even quality to its printing instead of the overly light or dark pages. Now lets talk about the "extras". Yes it does have ONE map. (The editorial review says "maps" plural.) The map was glued on to one of the last pages. The cut was irregular. In fact the whole effect of the book is that is is an irregular or reject. (Did the publisher decide that the U.S. should get the inferior printing?) Here is what a true collector' edition should have: Quality end papers with maps or illustrations of places, scripts of languages such as elvish, dwarvish or common. A few black and white illustrations throughout the text such as the Doors of Durin, Rivendell, etc. More maps in the appendices. You get the idea.
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