This is the ultimate gift for the fan who prefers the text over film adaptations. The four-volume, boxed, hardback edition includes Tolkien's original and unused dust-jacket design. The fourth edition to the set, The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, features an annotated guide to the text.

The names Aragon and Frodo may be synonymous with The Lord of the Rings, but Middle-earth's strongest women are both powerful and influential.

Keeping all of that in mind, it seemed pretty inevitable that the franchise would return to the big screen – even through the The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim's pi

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The best JRR Tolkien adaptations tend to resemble long walks in miserable weather. (To be clear, this is a good thing.) But this weird yet watchable animated foray into Middle-earth history – fast-tracked so that New Line Cinema could hang onto the film rights to Tolkien’s work – feels more like ice skating on a well-tended rink.