A beautiful 4-volume leather-bound Easton Press set of "The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien.


Easton Press, Norwalk CT. Full genuine leather with 22 kt gold accents. Leather-Bound. You are bidding on a 4-volume lot. Sharp corners with some marks to the page edges and covers. Appear unread with square spines.  No bookplates attached or removed. All photos of actual set. 

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"The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places. But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater." J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings



4 volume set in one shipment: 


1. The Hobbit

2. The Fellowship of the Ring 

3. The Two Towers 

4. The Return of the King



Features

Includes all the classic Easton Press qualities:

* Premium Leather

* Silk Moire Endleaves

* Distinctive Cover Design

* Hubbed Spine, Accented in Real 22KT Gold

* Satin Ribbon Page Marker

* Gilded Page Edges

* Long-lasting, High Quality Acid-neutral Paper

* Smyth-sewn Pages for Strength and Durability

* Beautiful Illustrations


About The Author

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), beloved throughout the world as the creator of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke College, and a fellow of Merton College until his retirement in 1959. His chief interest was the linguistic aspects of the early English written tradition, but even as he studied these classics he was creating a set of his own.


John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.


He served as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1925 to 1945 and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature at Merton College, Oxford from 1945 to 1959. He was at one time a close friend of C. S. Lewis, they were both members of the informal literary discussion group known as the Inklings. Tolkien was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 March 1972.


After his father's death, Tolkien's son Christopher published a series of works based on his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including The Silmarillion. These, together with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings form a connected body of tales, poems, fictional histories, invented languages, and literary essays about a fantasy world called Arda, and Middle-earth within it. Between 1951 and 1955, Tolkien applied the term legendarium to the larger part of these writings. While many other authors had published works of fantasy before Tolkien, the great success of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings led directly to a popular resurgence of the genre. This has caused Tolkien to be popularly identified as the "father" of modern fantasy literature or, more precisely, of high fantasy.


In 2008, The Times ranked him sixth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Forbes ranked him the 5th top-earning "dead celebrity" in 2009.