The Lord of the Rings (3 Book Box set): Boxed Set

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Tolkien, J. R. R. (1997). The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-261-10263-7. Tolkien was initially opposed to titles being given to each two-book volume, preferring instead the use of book titles: e.g. The Lord of the Rings: Vol. 1, The Ring Sets Out and The Ring Goes South; Vol. 2, The Treason of Isengard and The Ring Goes East; Vol. 3, The War of the Ring and The End of the Third Age. However, these individual book titles were dropped, and after pressure from his publishers, Tolkien suggested the volume titles: Vol. 1, The Shadow Grows; Vol. 2, The Ring in the Shadow; Vol. 3, The War of the Ring or The Return of the King. [55] [56] a b Carmel, Julia (15 February 2020). "Barbara Remington, Illustrator of Tolkien Book Covers, Dies at 90". The New York Times . Retrieved 4 September 2020. Wilson, Edmund (14 April 1956). "Oo, Those Awful Orcs! A review of The Fellowship of the Ring". The Nation . Retrieved 1 September 2012. Kreeft, Peter J. (November 2005). "The Presence of Christ in The Lord of the Rings". Ignatius Insight. Archived from the original on 24 November 2005 . Retrieved 2 August 2020.

Hooker, Mark T. (2006). "The Feigned-manuscript Topos". A Tolkienian Mathomium: a collection of articles on J. R. R. Tolkien and his legendarium. Llyfrawr. pp.176–177. ISBN 978-1-4382-4631-4. Zimmer, Paul Edwin (1993). "Another Opinion of 'The Verse of J. R. R. Tolkien' ". Mythlore. 19 (2). Article 2. a b Wagner, Vit (16 April 2007). "Tolkien proves he's still the king". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 9 March 2011 . Retrieved 8 March 2011. Holmes, John R. (2013) [2007]. "Art and Illustrations by Tolkien". In Drout, Michael D. C. (ed.). The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia. Routledge. pp.27–32. ISBN 978-0-415-86511-1.The Return of the King was especially delayed as Tolkien revised the ending and prepared appendices (some of which had to be left out because of space constraints). Tolkien did not like the title The Return of the King, believing it gave away too much of the storyline, but deferred to his publisher's preference. [52] Tolkien wrote that the title The Two Towers "can be left ambiguous", [T 12] but considered naming the two as Orthanc and Barad-dûr, Minas Tirith and Barad-dûr, or Orthanc and the Tower of Cirith Ungol. [T 13] However, a month later he wrote a note published at the end of The Fellowship of the Ring and later drew a cover illustration, both of which identified the pair as Minas Morgul and Orthanc. [53] [54] Notes on the text" pp. xi–xiii, Douglas A. Anderson, in the 1994 HarperCollins edition of The Fellowship of the Ring. Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Soundscape by Phil Dragash". archive.org. 2013 . Retrieved 11 March 2022. Carmel, Julia (15 February 2020). "Barbara Remington, Illustrator of Tolkien Book Covers, Dies at 90". The New York Times . Retrieved 18 July 2020.

Masters, Tim (30 April 2009). "Making Middle-earth on a shoestring". BBC News. BBC. Archived from the original on 3 May 2009 . Retrieved 1 May 2009. Cassady, Charles (9 July 2010). "The Return of the King (1980)". commonsensemedia.org . Retrieved 2 August 2020. Carpenter 1981, letter #178 to Allen & Unwin, 12 December 1955, and #303 to Nicholas Thomas, 6 May 1968Worldwide: "All Time Worldwide Box Office". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on 5 June 2004.

Shigeru Miyamoto Interview". Super PLAY (in Swedish). Medströms Dataförlag AB (4/03). March 2003. Archived from the original on 7 September 2006 . Retrieved 24 September 2006. All ideas for The legend of Zelda were mine and Takashi Tezukas... ...Books, movies and our own lives. In 1990, Recorded Books published an audio version of The Lord of the Rings, [121] read by the British actor Rob Inglis. A large-scale musical theatre adaptation, The Lord of the Rings, was first staged in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 2006 and opened in London in June 2007; it was a commercial failure. [122] Handwerk, Brian (1 March 2004). " Lord of the Rings Inspired by an Ancient Epic". National Geographic News. National Geographic Society. pp.1–2. Archived from the original on 16 March 2006 . Retrieved 4 October 2006. Auden, W. H. (26 January 1956). "At the End of the Quest, Victory: Book Review, "The Return of the King" ". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 30 January 2016 . Retrieved 21 February 2020.Tolkien's work, after an initially mixed reception by the literary establishment, has been the subject of extensive analysis of its themes, literary devices, and origins. Influences on this earlier work, and on the story of The Lord of the Rings, include philology, mythology, Christianity, earlier fantasy works, and his own experiences in the First World War. Treasured by readers young and old, these works of sweeping fantasy, steeped in unrivalled magic and other-worldliness have sold more than 150 million copies around the world. Including all sorts of adventures with Gandalf, Gollum, dragons and monsters, in the quest to destroy the One Ring! a b Kullmann, Thomas (2013). "Poetic Insertions in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings". Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate. 23 (2): 283–309. Archived from the original on 8 November 2018 . Retrieved 15 May 2020.

Rosenberg, Adam (14 January 2016). " 'Star Wars' ties 'Lord of the Rings' with 30 Oscar nominations, the most for any series". Mashable. Archived from the original on 12 May 2019 . Retrieved 1 July 2019. In 2004, for the 50th Anniversary Edition, Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull, under supervision from Christopher Tolkien, studied and revised the text to eliminate as many errors and inconsistencies as possible, some of which had been introduced by well-meaning compositors of the first printing in 1954, and never been corrected. [70] The 2005 edition of the book contained further corrections noticed by the editors and submitted by readers. Yet more corrections were made in the 60th Anniversary Edition in 2014. [71] Several editions, including the 50th Anniversary Edition, print the whole work in one volume, with the result that pagination varies widely over the various editions. [T 18] Posthumous publication of drafts [ edit ] Beginning with Bilbo’s fateful visit from Gandalf and culminating in the dramatic climax between Frodo and Gollum atop Mount Doom and Bilbo’s departure to the Grey Havens!West, Richard C. (1975). "Narrative Pattern in 'The Fellowship of the Ring' ". In Lobdell, Jared (ed.). A Tolkien Compass. Open Court. p.96. ISBN 978-0-87548-303-0. Scholars and critics have identified many themes in the book with its complex interlaced narrative, including a reversed quest, [34] [35] the struggle of good and evil, [36] death and immortality, [37] fate and free will, [38] the addictive danger of power, [39] and various aspects of Christianity such as the presence of three Christ figures, for prophet, priest, and king, as well as elements like hope and redemptive suffering. [40] [41] [42] [43] Straubhaar, Sandra Ballif (2005). "Gilraen's Linnod: Function, Genre, Prototypes". Journal of Tolkien Studies. 2 (1): 235–244. doi: 10.1353/tks.2005.0032. ISSN 1547-3163. S2CID 170378314. Some commentators have criticized the book for being a story about men for boys, with no significant women; or about a purely rural world with no bearing on modern life in cities; of containing no sign of religion; or of racism. Other commentators responded by noting that there are three powerful women in the book, Galadriel, Éowyn, and Arwen; that life, even in rural Hobbiton, is not idealised; that Christianity is a pervasive theme; and that Tolkien was sharply anti-racist both in peacetime and during the Second World War, while Middle-earth is evidently polycultural. [45] [46] [47] Publication history [ edit ]