The binding is faux red leather with gilt and blue decorations on the covers and gilt text and decorations on the spine. However I'm quite disappointed in the lack of clarity on the original trilogy 😔, I'd say it's no better than the previous Blu-ray releases.

The first new illustrated edition of The Hobbit for more than 15 years contains 150 brand new colour illustrations. Seamus Heaney’s deeply felt interpretation, widely acknowledged as the greatest Beowulf translation of modern times, is presented in parallel with the Old English verse in this fabulous Folio edition.Academy Awards® (2001): Best Cinematography, Makeup, Score and Visual Effects ❧ With the help of a courageous Fellowship of friends and allies, Frodo embarks on a perilous mission to destroy the legendary One Ring.

Tolkien composed his own version of the great legend of Northern antiquity, recounted here in The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún. Mary Shelley's darkly disturbing tale is illustrated by Angela Barrett and newly introduced by Richard Holmes.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.

They have different ISBNs and the text in the 2022 set is the emended 2014 text whereas the 2013 obviously isn’t. Limited to a worldwide first printing of just 4,000 copies, this deluxe edition is printed in two colours and is fully bound in cloth and stamped in gold foil.Next I come to the last of the hobbit films, battle of the five armies, which takes the hobbit characters of the first film and puts them in big battle scenes which seem to be computer generated and it also follows several new characters. The film received four Academy Awards® in 2001: Best Cinematography, Makeup, Score, and Visual Effects.

Academy Awards® (2002): Best Sound Editing and Visual Effects In the middle chapter of this historic movie trilogy, the Fellowship is broken, but its quest to destroy the One Ring™ continues. NOTE* I feel I should explain myself for the lack of posts on this blog for over a month, but any reason would hardly be sufficient.Classic hardback edition of the second volume of The Lord of the Rings, featuring Tolkien’s original unused dust-jacket design. Festival de Cannes Presentation Reel – Relish in the 26 minutes of footage that got the world excited about “Lord of the Rings” from Cannes way back in 2001. Classic hardback edition of the first volume of The Lord of the Rings, featuring Tolkien’s original unused dust-jacket design.