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My all time favourite book! ( ![]() 07/02/22 What more can be said about this classic? 3.3 The film so far surpasses the book that one wonders if the author himself would have chosen that medium had he had the technological opportunities Peter Jackson would one day have. The screenwriters' abridgement is also more satisfying.
All volumes are accompanied with maps, and Dr. Tolkien, who is a philologist, professor at Merton College of English Language and Literature, has equipped the last volume with a scholarly apparatus of appendices, explaining the alphabets and grammars of the various tongues spoken by his characters, and giving full genealogies and tables of historical chronology. Dr. Tolkien has announced that this series - the hypertrophic sequel to The Hobbit - is intended for adults rather than children, and it has had a resounding reception at the hands of a number of critics who are certainly grown-up in years. Mr. Richard Hughes, for example, has written of it that nothing of the kind on such a scale has been attempted since The Faerie Queen, and that « for width of imagination it almost beggars parallel."... Now, how is it that these long-winded volumes of what looks to this reviewer like balderdash have elicited such tributes as those above? The answer is, I believe, that certain people - especially, perhaps, in Britain - have a lifelong appetite for juvenile trash. They would not accept adult trash, but, confronted with the pre-teen-age article, they revert to the mental phase which delighted in Elsie Dinsmore and Little Lord Fauntleroy and which seems to have made of Billy Bunter, in England, almost a national figure. You can see it in the tone they fall into when they talk about Tolkien in print: they bubble, they squeal, they coo; they go on about Malory and Spenser - both of whom have a charm and a distinction that Tolkien has never touched. Belongs to SeriesThe Lord of the Rings (Omnibus 1-3) Middle-earth (3) Belongs to Publisher SeriesScience Fiction Book Club (01256) Is contained inThe J. R. R. Tolkien Deluxe Edition Collection: " The Children of Hurin " , " The Silmarillion " , " The Hobbit " and " The Lord of the Rings " by J. R. R. Tolkien (indirect) LORD OF THE RINGS, SILMARILLION, HOBBIT, BOOK OF LOST TALES, UNFINISHED TALES IN 8 VOLS Easton Press by J. R. R. Tolkien ContainsThe Treason of Isengard: Being the Third Book of The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (indirect) The End of the Third Age: Being the Sixth Book of the Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (indirect) Annals of the Kings and Rulers by J. R. R. Tolkien (indirect) Lord of the Rings Book 1 Fellowship of the Ring Part 1-1 {Japanese New Edition} by J.R.R. トールキン (indirect) Lord of the Rings Book 2 Fellowship of the Ring Part 1-2 {Japanese New Edition} by J. R. R. Tolkien (indirect) The Stone Troll [poem] by J. R. R. Tolkien (indirect) Lord of the Rings Book 3 Fellowship of the Ring Part 2-1 {Japanese New Edition} by J. R. R. Tolkien (indirect) Lord of the Rings Book 4 Fellowship of the Ring Part 2-2 {Japanese New Edition} by J. R. R. Tolkien (indirect) Is retold inHas the adaptationIs abridged inIs parodied inInspiredHas as a reference guide/companionAn Introduction to Elvish, Other Tongues, Proper Names and Writing Systems of the Third Age of the Western Lands of Middle-Earth as Set Forth in the Published Writings of Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien by Jim Allan Has as a studyThe Magical Worlds of The Lord of the Rings: The Amazing Myths, Legends, and Facts Behind the Masterpiece by David Colbert The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy: One Book to Rule Them All (Popular Culture and Philosophy) by Gregory Bassham Hobbits, Elves, and Wizards: Exploring the Wonders and Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings by Michael N. Stanton The Science of Middle-Earth: Explaining The Science Behind The Greatest Fantasy Epic Ever Told! by Henry Gee Hither Shore Nr. 9 "Tolkiens Einfluss auf die Fantasie": Interdisciplinary Journal on Modern Fantasy Literature - Jahrbuch 2012 der Deutschen Tolkien Gesellschaft e.V. by Thomas Fornet-Ponse Has as a supplementHas as a commentary on the textHas as a student's study guideHas as a teacher's guide
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