Nel 1987, in Inghilterra esce questa bella edizione rilegata con sovraccoperta con due differenti editori: la Unwin Hyman e la Guild Publishing. Il primo è l'editore storico di Tolkien, il secondo un editore del mercator eale. Le due edizioni non presentano differenze se non nel logo dell'editore presente in basso sul dorso. Le illustrazioni di copertina riprendono i disegni dello stesso Tolkien.
The Fellowship of the Ring
di J.R.R. Tolkien.
Guild
Edition 1987
Guild
Publishing, Londra
CN 2476
Illustrazione di copertina basato su un disegno di J.R.R.
Tolkien
Rilegato con sovraccoperta
Quarta di copertina
The Fellowship of the Ring
'THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING is
an extraordinary book'
THE OBSERVER
'a compelling grandeur of vision, a searing
inventiveness and a depth of humanity that give
it a rare - and rewarding - greatness'
SUNDAY TIMES
'a remarkable imaginative achievement'
THE SCOTSMAN
The Two Towers
di J.R.R.
Tolkien.
Guild
Edition 1987
Guild
Publishing, Londra
CN 2494
Illustrazione di copertina basato su un disegno di J.R.R.
Tolkien
Rilegato
con sovraccoperta
Quarta di copertina
The Two Towers
'an extraordinary work - pure wxcitement,
unencumbered narrative, moral warmth,
barefaced rejoicing in beauty, but excitement
most of all'
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
'The narrative moves with tremendous verve ...
This is a tale a keep children from play and old
men from the chinney-corner'
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
'It is unlikely that there will ever by anyone like
J.R.R. Tolkien again ... a modern classic'
DAILY TELEGRAPH
The Return of the King
di J.R.R.
Tolkien.
Guild
Edition 1987
Guild Publishing, Londra
CN 2500
Illustrazione di copertina basato su un disegno di J.R.R.
Tolkien
Rilegato con sovraccoperta
Quarta di copertina
The Return of the King
'The English speaking world is divided into
those who hev read THE HOBBIT and THE
LORD OF THE RINGS and those who are
going to read them'
SUNDAY TIMES
'exciting, anchanting and more than a little
inspiring'
OXFORD MAIL
'A masterpiece? Oh yes, I've no doubt of that.'
EVENING STANDARD
Seconda di copertina
La seconda di copertina è la stessa in tutti e tre i volumi e riporta il testo presente nella prima edizione del 1954-1955:
The Lord of the Rings is not a
book to be described in a few sentences. It is an heroic romance – ‘something
which has scarcely been attempted on this scale since Spencer’s Faerie
Queene, so one can ‘t praise the book by comparisons – there is nothing to
compare it with. What can I say then?’ continue RICHARD HUGHES, ‘for width of
imagination it almost beggars parallel, and it is nearly as remarkable for its
vividness and for the narrative skill which carries the reader on, enthralled,
for page after page.’ By an
extraordinary feat of the imagination Mr. Tolkien has created, and maintains in
every detail, a new mythology in an invented world. As for the story itself,
‘it’s really super science fiction’, declared NAOMI MITCHISON after reading the
first part, The Fellowship of the Ring, ‘but it is timeless and will go
on and on. It’s odd you know. One takes it completely seriously: as seriously
as Malory’. C.S. LEWIS in equally enthusiastic. ‘If Ariosto
rivaled it in invention (in fact he does not) he would still lack its heroic
seriousness. No imaginary world has been projected to its own inner laws; none
so seemingly objective, so disinfected from the taint of an author’s merely
individual psychology; none so relevant to the actual human situation yet so
free from allegory. And what fine shading there is in the variations of style
to meet the almost endless of scenes and characters – comic, homely, epic,
monstrous, or diabolic.’ Spenser,
Malory, Ariosto or Science Fiction? A flavor of all of them and a taste of its
own. Only those who have read The Lord of the Rings will realize how
impossible it is to convey all the qualities of a great book. ‘He has distilled elements of Norse, Teutonic
and Celtic myth to make a strange but coherent world of his own, presented with
a limpid joy in natural beauty and constant undertow of embodied terrors’.
The Sunday Times
