The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings [BOX SET] アメリカ版

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   トールキンの不朽の名作4冊が、ボックスセットになった。『The Lord of the Rings』（邦題『指輪物語』）3部作である、『The Fellowship of the Ring』（邦題『旅の仲間』）、 『The Two Towers』（邦題『二つの塔』）、 『The Return of the King』（邦題『王の帰還』）と、 『The Hobbit』（邦題『ホビットの冒険』）の豪華ペーパーバック版を収録。美しい活字の本文、有名アーティスト、アラン・リーによる地図や表紙イラストなど、非のうちどころのない装丁である。

 『The Hobbit』の主人公は、ビルボ・バギンス。彼は魔法使いガンダルフと13人のドワーフたちに、平穏なホビット庄の生活から連れ出され、強大な竜のスマウグが住むはなれ山の宝庫を目指すことになる。『The Lord of the Rings』は、フロド・バギンスを中心に、魔法使いガンダルフ、ホビット族のメリーとピピンとサム、ドワーフ族のギムリ、エルフ族のレゴラス、ゴンドールのボロミア、そして謎の人物ストライダーら、旅の仲間による、スリルに満ちた大冒険を描く。ミドルアース大陸を舞台に、胸躍る勇敢な冒険が繰り広げられるトールキンの3部作は、伝統的な神話であると同時に、現代のおとぎ話でもある。

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This four volume, deluxe paperback boxed set contains J.R.R. Tolkien's epic masterworks THE HOBBIT and the three volumes of THE LORD OF THE RINGS (THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, THE TWO TOWERS, and THE RETURN OF THE KING) in their definitive text settings complete with maps and cover illustrations by the celebrated artist Alan Lee. In THE HOBBIT, Bilbo Baggins is whisked away from his comfortable, unambitious life in Hobbiton by the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves. He finds himself caught up in a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a THE LORD OF THE RINGS tells of the great and dangerous quest undertaken by Frodo Baggins and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the wizard; the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam; Gimli the dwarf; Legolas the elf; Boromir of Gondor; and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider. J.R.R. Tolkien's three volume masterpiece is at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale -- a story of high and heroic adventure set in the unforgettable landscape of Middle-Earth.

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Hobbits and wizards and Sauron--oh, my! Mild-mannered Oxford scholar John Ronald Reuel Tolkien had little inkling when he published The Hobbit; Or, There and Back Again in 1937 that, once hobbits were unleashed upon the world, there would be no turning back. Hobbits are, of course, small, furry creatures who love nothing better than a leisurely life quite free from adventure. But in that first novel and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the hobbits Bilbo and Frodo and their elfish friends get swept up into a mighty conflict with the dragon Smaug, the dark lord Sauron (who owes much to proud Satan in Paradise Lost), the monstrous Gollum, the Cracks of Doom, and the awful power of the magical Ring. The four books' characters--good and evil--are recognizably human, and the realism is deepened by the magnificent detail of the vast parallel world Tolkien devised, inspired partly by his influential Anglo-Saxon scholarship and his Christian beliefs. (He disapproved of the relative sparseness of detail in the comparable allegorical fantasy his friend C.S. Lewis dreamed up in The Chronicles of Narnia, though he knew Lewis had spun a page-turning yarn.) It has been estimated that one-tenth of all paperbacks sold can trace their ancestry to J.R.R. Tolkien. But even if we had never gotten Robert Jordan's The Path of Daggers and the whole fantasy genre Tolkien inadvertently created by bringing the hobbits so richly to life, Tolkien's epic about the Ring would have left our world enhanced by enchantment. --Tim Appelo