We've carried this Hobbit / Lord of the Ring mass-market collection for years—in fact, the books included are among the VERY few active items in our listings that have only a 2-digit sku—and among the first ten literature titles we ever carried. They've gone through a lot of cover iterations over the years—some really cool, others just awful—but we're pretty pleased with these ones.
And, for the first time ever, the publishers have now released matching versions of not only the History of Middle Earth, but Tolkien's Fantasy Tales collection as well, which includes The Silmarillion and more middle earth (of course), but also The Tolkien Reader ("Farmer Giles of Ham," "Adventures of Tom Bombadil," "On Fairy Stories," and more), AND Tolkien's translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Pearl, and Sir Orfeo.
This Package thus includes:
The Hobbit / Lord of the Rings boxed Set
The History of Middle Earth Boxed Set
The Fantasy Tales Boxed Set
Diving this deep into Tolkien is not for everyone, of course, but if you want to be a REAL Tolkien nerd, you NEED all of these titles on your shelves!
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