The Fellowship of the Ring

Hardcover, 410 pages

English language

Published Nov. 13, 2002 by Houghton Mifflin.

ISBN:
978-0-618-26051-5
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OCLC Number:
50880827

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Part one of The Lord of the Rings, in a lavish hardcover edition illustrated in full color by Alan Lee. The Fellowship of the Ring is the first part of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure, The Lord of the Rings.

Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power -- the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring -- the ring that rules them all -- which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his …

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Review of 'The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings' on 'Goodreads'

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Berriz hasi naiz irakurtzen Eraztunen Jauna, ingelesez oraingoan. Nerabe nintzen irakurri nuen azkenaldian, eta bigarrenez irakurtzeak, egia esan, ahaztuta nituen hainbat detaile birgogoratzea ekarri dit.

Fantasiazko generoa gorpuztu duen obra nagusienetakoa, dudarik gabe. Bikaina.

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In 1980 Heinlein published a novel called The Number of the Beast. It involved parallel universes, The World as Fiction, and dragged in Lazarus Long, as Heinlein seemed to do in most of his later books. While parts of it were fun, it was also confusing and disjointed in my opinion. I will read any Heinlein for the writing alone, so I am a fan (in fact, I was for a time the webmaster for The Heinlein Society), but I can see that some of his stuff is better than others. So when I heard there was an alternate version of this novel, I had to check it out. And The Pursuit of the Pankera keeps the same basic setting and has the same beginning as The Number of the Beast, but I think it is much better. The plot is a lot more cohesive and the novel just flows …

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  • Baggins, Frodo (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
  • Middle Earth (Imaginary place) -- Fiction