" A book is a dream that you hold in your hand"
- Neil Gaiman
This is a brand new hardcover 50th Anniversary edition of The Lord of the Rings
Single Volume edition lavishly illustrated in full color by Alan Lee
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 Elven-smiths,
and Sauron, The Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own
power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from
him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth still it remained
lost to him. After many ages it fell, by chance, into the hands of the
hobbit, Bilbo Baggins.
From his fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, Sauron's power spread far
and wide. He gathered all the Great Rings to him, but ever he searched
far and wide for the One Ring that would complete his dominion.
On his eleventy-first birthday, Bilbo dissapeared bequeathing to his
young cousin, Frodo, the Ruling Ring, and a perilous quest: to journey
across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord and destroy
the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom.
The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and
the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the wizard, the hobbits Merry,
Pippin and Sam, Gimli the Dwarf, Legolas the Elf, Boromir of Gondor, and
a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.