The Lord of the Rings (Illustrated Edition) - J. R. R. Tolkien [0]
OF THE RINGS
BY
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
ILLUSTRATED BY
Alan Lee
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
Contents
Title Page
NOTE ON THE TEXT
NOTE ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
FOREWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION
PROLOGUE
THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
BOOK ONE
Chapter 1: A LONG-EXPECTED PARTY
Chapter 2: THE SHADOW OF THE PAST
Chapter 3: THREE IS COMPANY
Chapter 4: A SHORT CUT TO MUSHROOMS
Chapter 5: A CONSPIRACY UNMASKED
Chapter 6: THE OLD FOREST
Chapter 7: IN THE HOUSE OF TOM BOMBADIL
Chapter 8: FOG ON THE BARROW-DOWNS
Chapter 9: AT THE SIGN OF THE PRANCING PONY
Chapter 10: STRIDER
Chapter 11: A KNIFE IN THE DARK
Chapter 12: FLIGHT TO THE FORD
BOOK TWO
Chapter 1: MANY MEETINGS
Chapter 2: THE COUNCIL OF ELROND
Chapter 3: THE RING GOES SOUTH
Chapter 4: A JOURNEY IN THE DARK
Chapter 5: THE BRIDGE OF KHAZAD-DÛM
Chapter 6: LOTHLÓRIEN
Chapter 7: THE MIRROR OF GALADRIEL
Chapter 8: FAREWELL TO LÓRIEN
Chapter 9: THE GREAT RIVER
Chapter 10: THE BREAKING OF THE FELLOWSHIP
THE TWO TOWERS
BOOK THREE
Chapter 1: THE DEPARTURE OF BOROMIR
Chapter 2: THE RIDERS OF ROHAN
Chapter 3: THE URUK-HAI
Chapter 4: TREEBEARD
Chapter 5: THE WHITE RIDER
Chapter 6: THE KING OF THE GOLDEN HALL
Chapter 7: HELM’S DEEP
Chapter 8: THE ROAD TO ISENGARD
Chapter 9: FLOTSAM AND JETSAM
Chapter 10: THE VOICE OF SARUMAN
Chapter 11: THE PALANTÍR
BOOK FOUR
Chapter 1: THE TAMING OF SMÉAGOL
Chapter 2: THE PASSAGE OF THE MARSHES
Chapter 3: THE BLACK GATE IS CLOSED
Chapter 4: OF HERBS AND STEWED RABBIT
Chapter 5: THE WINDOW ON THE WEST
Chapter 6: THE FORBIDDEN POOL
Chapter 7: JOURNEY TO THE CROSS-ROADS
Chapter 8: THE STAIRS OF CIRITH UNGOL
Chapter 9: SHELOB’S LAIR
Chapter 10: THE CHOICES OF MASTER SAMWISE
THE RETURN OF THE KING
BOOK FIVE
Chapter 1: MINAS TIRITH
Chapter 2: THE PASSING OF THE GREY COMPANY
Chapter 3: THE MUSTER OF ROHAN
Chapter 4: THE SIEGE OF GONDOR
Chapter 5: THE RIDE OF THE ROHIRRIM
Chapter 6: THE BATTLE OF THE PELENNOR FIELDS
Chapter 7: THE PYRE OF DENETHOR
Chapter 8: THE HOUSES OF HEALING
Chapter 9: THE LAST DEBATE
Chapter 10: THE BLACK GATE OPENS
BOOK SIX
Chapter 1: THE TOWER OF CIRITH UNGOL
Chapter 2: THE LAND OF SHADOW
Chapter 3: MOUNT DOOM
Chapter 4: THE FIELD OF CORMALLEN
Chapter 5: THE STEWARD AND THE KING
Chapter 6: MANY PARTINGS
Chapter 7: HOMEWARD BOUND
Chapter 8: THE SCOURING OF THE SHIRE
Chapter 9: THE GREY HAVENS
APPENDIX A: ANNALS OF THE KINGS AND RULERS
APPENDIX B: THE TALE OF YEARS
APPENDIX C: FAMILY TREES
APPENDIX D: SHIRE CALENDAR FOR USE IN ALL YEARS
APPENDIX E: WRITING AND SPELLING
APPENDIX F: I THE LANGUAGES AND PEOPLES OF THE THIRD AGE
INDEX
MAPS
Works by J.R.R. Tolkien
Copyright
About the Publisher
NOTE ON THE TEXT
J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is often erroneously called a trilogy, when it is in fact a single novel, consisting of six books plus appendices, sometimes published in three volumes.
The first volume, The Fellowship of the Ring, was published in Great Britain by the London firm George Allen & Unwin on 29 July 1954; an American edition followed on 21 October of the same year, published by Houghton Mifflin Company of Boston. In the production of this first volume, Tolkien experienced what became for him a continual problem: printer’s errors and compositor’s mistakes, including well-intentioned ‘corrections’ of his sometimes idiosyncratic usage. These ‘corrections’ include the altering of dwarves to dwarfs, elvish to elfish, further to farther, nasturtians to nasturtiums, try and say to try to say and (‘worst of all’ to Tolkien) elven to elfin. In a work such as The Lord of the Rings, containing invented languages and delicately constructed