The Lord of the Rings [BOX SET] (Hardcover)

~ (Author), Alan Lee (Illustrator)

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

New Line Cinema will be releasing "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy in three separate installments, and Houghton Mifflin Tolkien's U.S. publisher since the release of The Hobbit in 1938 will be re-releasing each volume of the trilogy separately and in a boxed set (ISBN 0-618-15397-7. $22; pap. ISBN 0-618-15396-9. $12).
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Review

"A unique, wholly realized other world, evoked from deep in the well of Time, massively detailed, absorbingly entertaining..." -- The New York Times

"A unique, wholly realized other world, evoked from deep in the well of Time, massively detailed, absorbingly entertaining, profound in meaning." -- Review

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 1214 pages
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co; 1 edition (March 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0395489326
• ISBN-13: 978-0395489321
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.2 x 4.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (293 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #13,189 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

103 of 107 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Lord of the Rings--Millennium Edition, February 9, 2000

By	Steven Baker "steveandginny" (Chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Lord of the Rings (Millennium Edition) (Hardcover)

First: Amazon's rating method--i.e, that all editions of the same work are included under one rating thread--is useless. This Millennium edition is a rip-off--cheaply bound, printed on cheap paper, small print (paperback-like), no illustrations--DON'T buy it--buy one of the well-establishhed, illustrated hardcover editions. Tolkien's work itself, of course, rates all the stars there are.

36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Poor Quality, August 10, 2001

By	Steve M Ohman "steven_ohman" (Las Cruces, NM United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Lord of the Rings (Millennium Edition) (Hardcover)

The story itself if great, possibly the best I have ever read. The only problem I have is with the quality of the book. The books itself is small and hard to hold. The covers, along with the box cover, was made poorly.

49 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The Lord of the Rings (Millennium Edition), a comment, December 19, 2001

By	Thomas G. Robbin "Thomas Robbin" (Indianapolis, IN USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Lord of the Rings (Millennium Edition) (Hardcover)

This comment relates only to the physical appearance and binding of the The Lord of the Rings (Millennium Edition)box set. I was planning to purchase this set for my son and recently observed two box sets at a local book store. Both sets had irregularities in the size of two of the seven volumes in this set. They were noticeably shorter than the companion volumes, that is, as they sat on the shelf, the binding edges were uneven. The clerk broke the plastic seal so we could inspect the books more carefully and confirmed that they were imperfect. We also observed that the bindings appeared to be second rate, the pages were glued, not stitched, to the binding. Essentially paperback bindings in a mis-matched hard cover. We checked the second set the store had in stock and found the exact same problem with the size of the volumes. Certainly not worth the (...) retail price.
Thom Robbin