Three-volume boxed set movie tie-in edition featuring cover art with character portraits from the film trilogy. Three-volume boxed set with jackets and box art by Alan Lee and including large-format foldout maps and extensive appendices. Three-volume boxed set, lavishly illustrated throughout with more than fifty full-color paintings by Alan Lee. Weighed down by the compulsion of the Ring, he began finally to despair. But the way was impossibly hard, and Frodo was weakening. To defeat the Dark Lord, the accursed Ring of Power had to be destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom. While the evil might of the Dark Lord Sauron swarmed out to conquer all Middle-earth, Frodo and Sam struggled deep into Mordor, seat of Sauron's power. Their guide was Gollum, deceitful and lust-filled, slave to the corruption of the Ring.

Only Frodo and Sam were left to take the accursed Ring of Power to be destroyed in Mordor the dark kingdom where Sauron was supreme. Others were contending with the treachery of the wizard Saruman. Some were bracing hopelessly for war against the ancient evil of Sauron. Now it was up to Frodo and his faithful servant Sam to carry the Ring to where it could be destroyed in the very center of Sauron's dark kingdom. įrodo Baggins knew the Ringwraiths were searching for him and the Ring of Power he bore, which would enable Sauron to destroy all that was good in Middle-earth. Finally, it was Bilbo alone and unaided who had to confront the great dragon Smaug, the terror of an entire countryside.

Soon Bilbo was drawn into their quest, facing evil orcs, savage wolves, giant spiders, and worse unknown dangers. But the wizard Gandalf came along with a band of homeless dwarves. The Hobbit Prelude to The Lord of the Ringsīilbo Baggins was a hobbit who wanted to be left alone in quiet comfort. One-volume edition with Alan Lee cover art and fully corrected text.įour-volume trade paperback boxed set of Tolkien's masterworks with maps and cover art by Alan Lee. The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary EditionĪ spectacular celebratory edition, including a fully corrected text, two large-format two-color foldout maps, protective slipcase with inset panels, two-color foil stamping, ribbon placemarker, gilded edges, and Tolkien's hand-colored leaves of the Book of Mazarbul.

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