The Lord of the Rings

Brossura, 1168 pagine

lingua English

Pubblicato il 27 Settembre 2003 da Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

ISBN:
978-0-618-34399-7
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Numero OCLC:
1037246581

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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 power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, 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 always he searched for the One Ring that would complete his dominion. On Bilbo's eleventy-first birthday, he disappeared, 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 …

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If you are in need of a thoughtful, well written review of the three books constituting the Lord of the Rings trilogy, please look elsewhere. I decided to reread J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" for the fist time since I read the trilogy of books when I was in Junior High School some forty years ago. The blue, green and red paperback books purchased from a Scholastic Book Fair that first I read did not survive my many house moves in the intervening years. Much later, I had purchased a copy of the 1991 Special Edition beautifully illustrated by Alan Lee which sat on a bookshelf for several years until recently unread. When I finally did pull the heavy single volume down, I found it almost too heavy to hold in my lap to read. So I went out to my local used book store (Recycled Books in …

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È stato un lungo viaggio, ma anche a questa ennesima rilettura The Lord of the Rings ha saputo dirmi cose nuove: un po’ perché era la prima volta che lo leggevo in inglese e insieme a un’ottima guida come A Reader’s Companion; un po’ perché la me stessa di oggi ha accumulato esperienze che hanno gettato nuova luce su alcune parti.

Non vi sto a raccontare la bellezza di leggere proprio questa edizione (ci avevo già scritto un post un annetto fa e direi che è sufficiente come delirio da fan), ma aggiungerò che è un’edizione che vale l’acquisto se Tolkien vi piace proprio tanto. In particolare, A Reader’s Companion è pieno di informazioni che se non siete dellз patitз della Terra di Mezzo potrebbero narcotizzarvi e lanciare maledizione a quella blogger che vi ha fatto venire …

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