The Lord of The Rings Trilogy. The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of The King. London: G. Allen, 1968. Second Edition, Third Impressions. Publisher’s red cloth covers, title in gilt to spines, in distinctive illustrated dust jackets. A fine bright set.

A great classic of fantasy literature. The Lord of the Rings is one of the greatest books of the twentieth century, containing amazing details of a new mythology.

‘The Fellowship of the Ring’ first appeared in 1954, the other two volumes in the trilogy in 1955.

“To have created so enthralling an epic-romance, with its own mythology, with such diversity of scene and character, such imaginative largess in invention and description, and such supernatural meaning underlying the wealth of incident, is a most remarkable feat. Mr. Tolkien is one of those born storytellers who makes his readers as eager as wide-eyed children for more. His style, in prose and verse, is fresh and fluent and equally apt to the expression of unearthly beauty, homely humour, or stark horror.” [Extract from a review of the first volume in the trilogy which appeared on 20 August, 1954]