The Lord of the Rings. 3 Vol. Set
by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Author: J.R.R. TolkienEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Format: Box set
Published: 2003-09-01
ISBN: 0618346244
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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- ISBN13: 9780618346240
- Condition: NEW
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Book Reviews of The Lord of the Rings. 3 Vol. Set
Book Review: Kindle Version missing key elements of footnotes
Summary: 3 Stars
I love the Lord of the Rings trilogy...I've been reading and re-reading it since 1974. I was anxious to have the Kindle version for portability. I just re-read the Fellowship of the Ring in paperback before buying the Kindle version of the Trilogy. I've started and have been reading the Two Towers in the Kindle edition that I just purchased a few days ago.
I'm keenly disappointed in that all the footnotes are missing. If they're present, I don't know how to access them on Kindle. In any event, a good portion of the story is missing without the footnotes. Anyone who has not previously read the Trilogy in book format will be missing a good portion of the history provided by Tolkien. Without the history, there is a lack of understanding about the story and the new reader of the Trilogy will have a lack of understanding about the complete work and how the story "fits" together.
If you are reading the Trilogy for the first time, I would highly recommend reading the book version complete with footnotes that appear every few pages. Without them, you'll be missing probably a fourth of the story and will not have a complete understanding of the tie-in of the the history to the current story.
My question is; why are the footnotes missing; especially when they comprise such a large portion of the story?
David
Summary of The Lord of the Rings. 3 Vol. Set
Three-volume paperback edition featuring cover art from the film.One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, The Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth still it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell, by chance, into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins.
From his fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, Sauron's power spread far and wide. He gathered all the Great Rings to him, but ever he searched far and wide for the One Ring that would complete his dominion.
On his eleventy-first birthday, Bilbo dissapeared bequeathing to his young cousin, Frodo, the Ruling Ring, and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom.
The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo 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.
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
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