The Lord of the Rings

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This special 50th anniversary edition includes the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King), along with an extensive new index—a must-have tome for both old and new Tolkien readers alike.

“One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.”

In ancient times, the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elves, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the Ring was stolen from him, and though Sauron searched for it across Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages, it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.

From Sauron’s stronghold in the Dark Tower of Mordor, his power spread far and wide. Sauron gathered all the Great Rings to himself but always sought the One Ring that would complete his dominion.

When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first birthday, he disappeared, leaving the Ruling Ring to his young cousin Frodo and a perilous mission: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadows of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom.

The Lord of the Rings tells the epic tale of Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: the wizard Gandalf, the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam, the dwarf Gimli, the elf Legolas, Boromir of Gondor, and a mysterious ranger named Aragorn.

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), beloved worldwide as the creator of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford and a fellow of Pembroke College and Merton College until his retirement in 1959. His chief interest was the linguistic aspects of early English literature, but while he studied classic works of the past, he was crafting a world of his own.