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The fellowship of the ring being the first part of The lord of the rings, with a new foreword by the author

Main Author:	Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973.
Other Authors:	Sweet, Darrell (illus.)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Ballantine Books, 1981.
Series:	Lord of the rings ; 1. Middle-Earth universe.
Subjects:	Fantasy fiction, English.
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Item Description:	"Cover art by Darrell K. Sweet from the 1982 J. R. R. Tolkien Calendar." Ballantine Fantasy, 29605. "The authorized edition." "Special silver jubilee edition." Copyright 1965 by J. R. R. Tolkien; first Ballantine Books edition, October 1965; seventy-second printing, April 1981.
Physical Description:	527 p. : maps. ; 18 cm.
ISBN:	0345296052
Author Notes:	A writer of fantasies, Tolkien, a professor of language and literature at Oxford University, was always intrigued by early English and the imaginative use of language. In his greatest story, the trilogy The Lord of the Rings (1954--56), Tolkien invented a language with vocabulary, grammar, syntax, even poetry of its own. Though readers have created various possible allegorical interpretations, Tolkien has said: "It is not about anything but itself. (Certainly it has no allegorical intentions, general, particular or topical, moral, religious or political.)" In The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962), Tolkien tells the story of the "master of wood, water, and hill," a jolly teller of tales and singer of songs, one of the multitude of characters in his romance, saga, epic, or fairy tales about his country of the Hobbits. Tolkien was also a formidable medieval scholar, as evidenced by his work, Beowulf: The Monster and the Critics (1936) and his edition of Anciene Wisse: English Text of the Anciene Riwle. Among his works published posthumously, are The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún and The Fall of Arthur, which was edited by his son, Christopher. In 2013, his title, The\Hobbit (Movie Tie-In) made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography)

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