THE LORD OF THE RINGS Trilogy Second Revised Edition 1965 HCDJ Box Set TOLKIEN

THE LORD OF THE RINGS Trilogy Second Revised Edition 1965 Houghton Mifflin HCDJ Box Set TOLKIEN. A set of the Second US edition of the. The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers. The Return of the King. Boston/Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. Twelfth, Eleventh, Eleventh printings respectively. With all folding maps (by Tolkien's son Christopher) present. Bound in the original publisher's full black gilt-stamped cloth all in original color pictorial dust jacket. Complete three volume set comes in its original boxed set slipcase.

Tolkien's Middle Earth grew not only from his experiences in World War I and studies as a professor of English language and literature at Oxford, but from his childhood hobby of constructed languages (conlangs). Tolkien argued in his essay "A Secret Vice" that "for perfect construction of an art-language it is found necessary to construct at least in outline a mythology" along with it.

In other words, your language construction will breed a mythology. Middle Earth sprang into being in part so that Tolkien could draw on a mature culture, history and mythology for his beloved conlangs. As a result, we have Bilbo, Frodo and Sam; Gandalf the Grey, and Aragorn who is Strider; the One Ring, the covetous Gollum; and a harrowing journey to Mount Doom. This second US edition follows closely the second UK from Allen & Unwin of the previous year, which was heavily revised and corrected by the author.

These books, marketed as the "Revised Edition" in 1965 included a new foreword by Tolkien, were issued as a slipcased box set. Books & Dust Jackets are in Excellent overall condition.

Books protected with Mylar dust jacket covers. Normal shelf wear that comes with age. Pages (See images for details).