The Hobbit And The Lord Of The Rings The Hobbit The Fellowship Of The Ring The Two Towers The Return Of The King

Presents a box set including the complete "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, as well as its prequel, "The Hobbit."

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) was a major scholar of the English language, specialising in Old and Middle English. Twice Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, he also wrote a number of stories, including most famously The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955), which are set in a pre-historic era in an invented version of the world which he called …