Thankfully I first read them in the Ballantine Special Silver Jubilee Edition from the early 80s: [link]
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Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 05, 2011 8:05:10 pm PST #16112 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
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quester - Mar 05, 2011 8:09:39 pm PST #16113 of 30001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Here's a view of the three combined as one image: [link]
Oh, I remember those covers. I think they were like the 3rd set of paperbacks my folks bought. By the time I graduated from high school we had a full set of the LOTR for each member of the family - 9 - in paperback and hardback.
WindSparrow - Mar 05, 2011 8:15:47 pm PST #16114 of 30001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Thankfully I first read them in the Ballantine Special Silver Jubilee Edition from the early 80s:
Yes, those were my first set, too. Lovely covers. Eventually they all got so water-damaged from me reading in the bath that I dredged up "the lysergic covers from the late 60s" at thrift stores as a replacement. This is what I have now [link] though you can't really tell much about the covers, they are mercifully neither movie tie-ins nor mind-bending.
Ginger - Mar 06, 2011 1:17:28 am PST #16115 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
My first set was Ballantine editions Frank referred to. I still have them, but they're decomposing into individual pages. I don't think they quite had the hang of perfect binding thick paperbacks in the '60s, because most of my fatter books from that era are falling apart.
WindSparrow - Mar 06, 2011 4:21:02 am PST #16116 of 30001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Ginger, I think paperbacks just flat out are not meant to last - my Watership Down (that I stole from my brother) went loose leaf after about 10 years, and I'm pretty sure that the spines of more than one volume of Wheel of Time cracked open. I've got c. 1985 C.S. Lewis Space Trilogy that have been shedding pages like Sammie sheds her winter coat since the 90s.
megan walker - Mar 06, 2011 8:45:23 am PST #16117 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
This is the Hobbit I had growing up: [link] I liked those covers.
I found these at a library book sale, which is sort of Lord of the Rings as Harlequin romance: [link] I bought them because my fancy boxed all-in-one hardcover, while gorgeous, is rather unwieldy: [link]
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Incredibly, I found the Hobbit boxed hardcover in perfect condition at a street stand in NY: [link]
Connie Neil - Mar 06, 2011 8:55:40 am PST #16118 of 30001
brillig
This is the Hobbit I had growing up
Tolkien's own art, I believe.
Dana - Mar 06, 2011 9:08:06 am PST #16119 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Yeah, those are the LoTR covers I have, Megan.
megan walker - Mar 06, 2011 9:12:47 am PST #16120 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I think next year's book challenge may have to involve re-reading. It's been awhile for both books.
Vortex - Mar 06, 2011 9:14:19 am PST #16121 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I have tried multiple times to read Tolkien, and I just can't get into it. I have a rule that the author gets 50 pages to get it moving. Tolkien has never made that for me.