The Once and Future King

THE LORD OF THE RINGS

J. R. R. Tolkien

Part 1: The Fellowship of the Ring

Part 2: The Two Towers

Part 3: The Return of the King

The Lord of the Rings cannot be described in a few words. J. R. R. Tolkien’s great work of imaginative fiction has been labelled both a heroic romance and a classic of science fiction. It is, however, impossible to convey to the new reader all of the book’s qualities, and the range of its creation. By turns comic, homely, epic, monstrous and diabolic, the narrative moves through countless changes of scenes and character in an imaginary world which is totally convincing in its detail. Tolkien created a new mythology in an invented world which has proved timeless in its appeal.

‘An extraordinary book. it deals with a stupendous theme, It leads us through a succession of strange and astonishing episodes, some of them magnificent, in a region where everything is invented, forest, moor, river, wilderness, town and the races which inhabit them. As the story goes on the world of the Ring grows more vast and mysterious and crowded with curious figures horrible, delightful or comic. The story itself is superb.’

– The Observer

‘Among the greatest works of imaginative fiction of the twentieth century.’

– Sunday Telegraph

‘The English-speaking world is divided into those who have read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and those who are going to read them.’

– Sunday Times

The Lord of the Rings is available as a three book paperback edition and also in one volume.