Tolkien's great work of imaginative fiction has been labeled both a heroic romance and a classic fantasy fiction. And all the time the armies of the Dark Lord are massing.
After a battle with the giant spider, Shelob, Sam left his master for dead but Frodo is still alive-in the hands of the Orcs. Meanwhile, Sam and Frodo progressed towards Mordor to destroy the Ring, accompanied by SmEagol-Gollum, still obsessed by his 'precious'.
Gandalf returned, miraculously, and defeated the evil wizard, Saruman. Merry and Pippin, captured by Orcs, escaped into Fangorn Forest and there encountered the Ents. Aragorn, revealed as the hidden heir of the ancient Kings of the West, joined with the Riders of Rohan against the forces of Isengard, and took part in the desperate victory of the Hornburg. The Companions of the Ring have become involved in separate adventures as the quest continues. Until he finds out that the fate of the entire world rests on his solving this case. It seems simple enough, but Harry knows better than to get caught in the middle of faerie politics. All he has to do is find out who murdered the Summer Queen's right-hand man, the Summer Knight, and clear the Winter Queen's name.
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She has an offer Harry can't refuse if he wants to free himself of the supernatural hold his faerie godmother has over him-and hopefully end his run of bad luck.
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The only professional wizard in the phone book has become a desperate man.Īnd just when it seems things can't get any worse, in saunters the Winter Queen of Faerie. He can't even recall the last time he took a shower. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other EntertainmentĮver since his girlfriend left town to deal with her newly acquired taste for blood, Harry Dresden has been down and out in Chicago. lessįor the 1st printing edition of this ISBN, see here. His chief interest was the linguistic aspects of the early English written tradition, but while he studied classic works of the past, he was creating a set of his own. Tolkien (1892-1973), beloved throughout the world as the creator of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke College, and a fellow of Merton College until his retirement in 1959.
This new edition includes the fiftieth-anniversary fully corrected text setting and, for the first time, an extensive new index. The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam Gimli the Dwarf Legolas the Elf Boromir of Gondor and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider. When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first birthday he disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom. Sauron gathered all the Great Rings to him, but always he searched for the One Ring that would complete his dominion. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.įrom Sauron's fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, his power spread far and wide. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
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