Product Description

An unbelievable gift collectors edition - boxed trilogy. The Lord of the Rings Boxed Set
Includes:
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King

This edition of the classic Lord of the Ring trilogy is made up of three separate paperbacks: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King. The books are presented in a wonderful black sleeve. This would make a great gift.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7326348 in Books
• Published on: 1972-09-12
• Released on: 1972-09-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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.

Review
'Extraordinarily imaginative, and wholly exciting.' The Times 'The story itself is superb.' Observer 'A most remarkable feat.' Guardian 'An astonishing imaginative tour de force.' Daily Telegraph 'Tolkien was a storyteller of genius.' Literary Review 'Amongst the greatest works of imaginative fiction of the twentieth century.' Sunday Telegraph

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

Customer Reviews

Lord of the Rings--Millennium Edition
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.

The Lord of the Rings (Millennium Edition), a comment
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

Poor Quality
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.