The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1)

ISBN-13:	9780395489314
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	03/03/1988
Series:	Lord of the Rings Series , #1
Edition description:	Subsequent
Pages:	432
Sales rank:	63,511
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.70(d)
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien's three-volume epic, is set in the imaginary world of Middle-earth - home to many strange beings, and most notably hobbits, a peace-loving "little people," cheerful and shy. Since its original British publication in 1954-55, the saga has entranced readers of all ages. It is at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale. Critic Michael Straight has hailed it as one of the "very few works of genius in recent literature." Middle-earth is a world receptive to poets, scholars, children, and all other people of good will. Donald Barr has described it as "a scrubbed morning world, and a ringing nightmare world...especially sunlit, and shadowed by perils very fundamental, of a peculiarly uncompounded darkness." The story of ths world is one of high and heroic adventure. Barr compared it to Beowulf, C.S. Lewis to Orlando Furioso, W.H. Auden to The Thirty-nine Steps. In fact the saga is sui generis - a triumph of imagination which springs to life within its own framework and on its own terms.