The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary Edition

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   大人でさえも、トールキンのファンタジー超大作のボリュームに圧倒されてしまうことがある。そこで、子どもにも読みやすいよう『The Lord of the Rings』が7冊のボックスセットで登場した。青年フロドが指輪を破壊するために悪と戦うという永遠の名作が7冊に分割され、1冊ずつがスリム化された。映画のロゴタイトルが入り、サイドにはイラストが描かれた美しい黒いボックスに収められている。また、背表紙にも映画のロゴタイトルが描かれている。見た目も新しく、その「カッコイイ」風貌は子どもたちの心をつかみ、この古典大作を読みたいと思わせることだろう。（Jonathan Weir, Amazon.co.uk）

Product Description

The Fellowship of the Ring, part one of J.R.R. TolkienÂ’s epic masterpiece, fist reached these shores on October 21, 1954, arriving, as C. S. Lewis proclaimed, "like lightning from a clear sky." Fifty years and nearly one hundred million American readers later comes a beautiful new one-volume collectorÂ’s edition befitting the stature of this crown jewel of our list. With a text fully corrected under the supervision of Christopher Tolkien to meet the authorÂ’s exacting wishes, two large-format fold-out maps, a ribbon placemarker, gilded page edges, a color insert depicting Tolkien's own paintings of the Book of Mazarbul and exceptionally elegant and sturdy overall packaging housed within an attractive slipcase, this edition is the finest weÂ’ve ever produced.

Amazon.com Review

A Christian can almost be forgiven for not reading the Bible, but there's no salvation for a fantasy fan who hasn't read the gospel of the genre, J.R.R. Tolkien's definitive three-book epic, the Lord of the Rings (encompassing The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King), and its charming precursor, The Hobbit. That many (if not most) fantasy works are in some way derivative of Tolkien is understood, but the influence of the Lord of the Rings is so universal that everybody from George Lucas to Led Zeppelin has appropriated it for one purpose or another.

Not just revolutionary because it was groundbreaking, the Lord of the Rings is timeless because it's the product of a truly top-shelf mind. Tolkien was a distinguished linguist and Oxford scholar of dead languages, with strong ideas about the importance of myth and story and a deep appreciation of nature. His epic, 10 years in the making, recounts the Great War of the Ring and the closing of Middle-Earth's Third Age, a time when magic begins to fade from the world and men rise to dominance. Tolkien carefully details this transition with tremendous skill and love, creating in the Lord of the Rings a universal and all-embracing tale, a justly celebrated classic. --Paul Hughes