The Return of the King (Lord of the Rings)(指环王)

基本信息·出版社：HarperCollins Publishers

·页码：624 页

·出版日期：1999年

·ISBN：0261102370

·条形码：9780261102378

·包装版本：1999-06-01

·装帧：平装

·开本：32开

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内容简介Book Description

'The Return of the King' is the third part of JRR Tolkien's epic masterpiece 'The Lord of the Rings'. This paperback edition has the classic black cover featuring Tolkien's own design and includes the definitive edition of the text. The armies of the Dark Lord are massing as his evil shadow spreads even wider. Men, Dwarves, Elves and Ents unite forces to do battle against the Dark. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam struggle further into Mordor in their heroic quest to destroy the One Ring...JRR Tolkien's great work of imaginative fiction has been labelled both a heroic romance and a classic fantasy fiction. By turns comic and homely, epic and diabolic, the narrative moves through countless changes of scene and character in an imaginary world which is totally convincing in its detail. Tolkien created a vast new mythology in an invented world which has proved timeless in its appeal. Part of a set of three paperbacks, this popular edition is once again available in its classic black livery designed by Tolkien himself.

FromLibrary 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.

FromBooklist

FromAudioFile

[Editor's Note: The following is a combined review with THE TWO TOWERS.]--There is something incongruous about American voices in ancient Britain (or to be precise, Middle Earth). Nonetheless, these American productions of the Tolkien classics--originally broadcast on NPR Playhouse--are well worth hearing. While not as elaborate as the BBC production (which featured Ian Holm), this adaptation is more accessible to a wider audience. Gail Chugg, who also plays the character of Gollum, narrates the story with an easy storyteller's style. James Arrington reads the part of Frodo Baggins, the Hobbit bearing the burden of a ring of great power. Bernard Mayes portrays the wizard Gandalf with a homespun flourish. S.E.S.

Book Dimension

length: (cm)17.8 width:(cm)11.1

作者简介J.R.R. Tolkien (1892–1973), beloved throughout the world as the creator of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke College, and a fellow of Merton College until his retirement in 1959. His chief interest was the linguistic aspects of the early English written tradition, but even as he studied these classics he was creating a set of his own.

媒体推荐Reviews

1. "A masterful story — an epic in its own way — with elements of high adventure, suspense, mystery, poetry and fantasy."

Boston Herald

2. "An extraordinary work--pure excitement..."

The New York Times

3. "Among the greatest works of imaginative fiction of the twentieth century."

Sunday Telegraph

4. "One of the great fairy-tale quests in modern literature"

Sunday Telegraph

5. "A remarkable book"

Newsweek

6."A work of immense narrative power that can sweep the reader up and hold him enthralled for days and weeks."

The Nation

7. "Tolkien"s stories take place against a background of measureless depth…That background is ever-present in the creator"s mind and it gives Frodo and company a three-dimensional reality that is seldom found in this kind of writing."

The Washington Post

8. "Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron."

-- C.S. Lewis