J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King - Boxed Set

The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy in Ballantine paperback boxed set edition.

J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth is not a world that rewards speed-reading. The poems, the languages, the elaborate genealogies are part of the pleasure. This boxed set invites the kind of long reading that Tolkien expected.

Faculty in medieval studies and fantasy literature assign this. It is the set for collectors and for readers who want to treat the reading like a pilgrimage.