Fellowship of the ring11/1/2022 ![]() ![]() The narrator also relates the key events of The Hobbit (the prequel to The Lord of the Rings) in the prologue, where a hobbit by the name of Bilbo Baggins is thrust into adventure as he joins a party of dwarves who journey to re-take the Lonely Mountain from the ancient dragon Smaug. Hobbits are unobtrusive yet curiously tough peoples who share a love for the pleasures of domestic life, including consuming good food and drink, smoking pipeweed, and enjoying the orderly nature of their simple homes and businesses in the land of The Shire. #FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING FREE#The prologue sets the stage by describing the habits and traditions of hobbits, a small, good-natured, and pastoral folk who become surprising key players in the fate of the One Ring-a weapon belonging to the Dark Lord Sauron that will allow him total domination over the Free Peoples of Middle-earth. ![]() Tolkien’s epic tale The Lord of the Rings. **Some of these copies may have been converted by replacing the title/title verso pages and pages 29-30 (see ).The Fellowship of the Ring is the first of three volumes that make up J.R.R. Further information can also be found in plenty at. ![]() ![]() Frisby put together a very useful guide entitled ‘Identifying First Edition Printings of the Houghton Mifflin Lord of the Rings Part I’ which was printed in the The Tolkien Collector, Issue no. Jacket price: Unpriced until the 10th? Impression: $5.00 by the 12th Impression $5.95 with the 14th Impression. 102) has been found to be erroneous, referring in fact to the Reader’s Union 1960 Book Club Edition. The report of this edition as a possible ‘Christmas Extra’ from the Science Fiction Book Club (mentioned in Hammond’s Bibliography, p. Consequently, each US impression has a corresponding UK impression (with the exception of the 3rd Impression, Variant B). The 14th-16th impressions (1964-1965) were printed in the US. The first thirteen impressions (1954-1963) were bound in the US from imported British sheets. The 3rd-9th impressions (1955-1960) lack any statement of year or impression number on their copyright page (the 1st Impression states the year on its title page and copyright page). With the 10th, 11th or 12th Impression the lettering was changed from red to brown. However, the 8th, 9th and 12th-16th Impressions were also trimmed straight across and it is likely that other Impressions not yet seen were as well.Īfter the 9th Impression, the line drawing on the dust-jacket was changed from dark brown to black (a subtle difference). In the impressions immediately following this (the 3rd and 4th) the photo is trimmed with a shallow ‘v’ shape at the bottom. The bottom edge of the photograph of Tolkien on the back cover is trimmed straight across.The following ‘o’ is not nicked as is found on some later dust-jackets (at least the 8th, 9th and 12-16th Impressions). In the tenth line of the back flap blurb, the ascender on the ‘d’ in ‘Frodo’ is clipped (this flaw is unique to the 1st Impression jacket).The 1st Impression dust-jacket can be recognized by the following points: Half-title page bears the Allen & Unwin device and on p.Half-title page lacks the Allen & Unwin device and p.Two variants have been noted for the 3rd Impression: Reset for the 2nd UK (3rd US) Impression.ġst Impression: July, 1954 – 1,500 copiesĢnd Impression: December, 1954 (does not exist)ģrd Impression: January, 1955 – 3,000 copiesĤth Impression: November, 1955 – 500 copiesĦth Impression: December, 1956 (does not exist)ħth Impression: October, 1957 – 1,000 copies Typeset as for the Allen & Unwin 1954 First Edition. ![]()
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