The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings

Size is absolutely perfect and page quality is too good. Am so happy to have ordered this edition.

If you are going to buy any set for LOTR, let it be this one

Thick paper, great illustration (could’ve been bit brighter print but hey it’s nice as it is). Best edition of the LOTR.

Gifted it to my husband who is an LoTR fan. He loved it! The binding is luxurious, we loved the small size and the print is good. It's so beautiful!

A must have collection of 4 books : The hobbit and 3 LOTR books. All hardcover illustrated editions with thick pages and excellent print quality. Beautifully packaged books with a hardcover case to keep. Each chapter inside all the books has a coloured heading. All the books have great looking maps. And then comes the most special thing!!!!!!! The best ever illustrations by the master “Alan Lee”. I’m thrilled to have this edition and can’t wait to read it once again!!!! So it begins!!!!!!

We all know the books are beyond a mere star rating, this is for this edition. The box was damaged in transit. though not too much,I gotta say the packaging was extremely careless.they just put it in a polyethene with no protection at all, not even a piece of bubble wrap, I’m amazed it’s not damaged more. The books are rather small, the font on “the hobbit” is good ,but It’s too small on the other three.other than that, they look phenomenal on the shelf and feel amazing in hand. BUY IT. MY PRECIOUS!!

Wow! just wow! The quality is multi fold in this bookset. Just to be clear this is the Illustrated Edition by Harpercollins. Paper quality is so good, I have never seen such high quality paper in a book before. The hardcover binding is also top notch. all this with Alan Lee's immersive and magnificent illustrations make it a perfect way to get lost in the fantasy world of Tolkien.

Love the leather cover, the binding and the slightly yellowed pages. The print is somewhat small, but still easily readable. Overall, definitely worth adding to your book collection.

I haven't bought a paper book, let alone a hardcover book, since I got my first Kindle more than 15 years ago. Not until I decided to buy this box set. And it was worth it, and more. My order arrived this afternoon and the packaging by Amazon was perfect, the books were well protected and had no damage. The quality of the books is just outstanding, fantastic covers, great paper, nice font type and size. I'm not reviewing the writing of the books, after all most of those whose planning to buy this set have already read the books earlier in some form. The first time I read these books was maybe more than 40 years ago. The packaging and the overall feel of these books is just phenomenal. Not only will it look good on any bookshelf, but it's something you can pass on to your children. The only teeny-weeny regret I have now is I ordered this last Saturday for € 93, and today they cost € 75. But then again that's the story of my life. So to those on the fence about buying this set, at € 75 this is bargain!

مجموعة فاخرة لثلاثية سيد الخواتم بالاضافة الى الهوبيت ، وصلتني المجموعة في حالة جيدة ، من أفضل المجموعات الموجودة حالياً و جودتها فاقت توقعاتي 💕

I preordered the set and it came, to my surprise, on the day of the release. I know amazon is fast, but I didn't expect that. How amazing. :) Middle Earth is my life, so I guess I don't have to explain how amazing the stories are. :) The box is beautiful to look at and pretty sturdy. Now, I don't keep my books in boxes, but I'm sure I will find some other use for this one since it's so beautiful. I wanted to read at least one of the books, to be able to give a decent review. SO FAR the quality of the books seems to be amazing. The paper is of nice quality, as well as the print and the book as a whole. Just like the box, nice to look at and sturdy. I didn't find any errors when it comes to the text and no words or entire pages were missing (Yup, that does happen sometimes.) The artwork for the cover is amazing and I love that the overall design of the books is just like the other 'Alan Lee' hardcover editions, like The Fall of Gondolin or Beren and Luthien. That way you can display all of them together. When you remove the paper cover from The Hobbit you reveal a book in beautiful, deep, forest green with a golden fond. When you remove it from the The Lord of the Rings books you will end up with three wonderful wine red ones. Another nice detail is that some parts of the maps and the titles of the chapters have different colors. Again, a deep, forest green for The Hobbit and a wine red color for LotR. Depending on the book you're reading, you get to see different parts of the map of Middle Earth. :) The artwork is absolutely beautiful, I don't really know what else to say. :D Just stunning. One thing tho - I read in another review that the person wasn't happy with the print and that the colors didn't seem to be as rich and vibrant: Alan Lee works a lot with watercolors, and so do I. :) Watercolor is medium that is, not always, but very often used in a way that it looks very transparent and neutral. Now if you look up the art of Alan Lee you will notice very quick that he definitely is an artist who prefers to use more neutral tones. (at least for the most part.) The transparency that naturally comes with the medium, plus the overall style of his art, which - in general - seems to be more on the darker, muted and toned down side, let it seem like the print isn't as vribrant. That's not due to the print tho. It's just the way Alan works. Simply said: It's his style. :) (again, check out his other works, most of them aren't really 'colorful' - and even his 'colorful' art is pretty muted.) :) I actually like that the art is more on the darker, muted kind of side. I find it quite fitting for the whole vibe of the story. :) So... I paid about 80€ for this set, so about 20€ for each book, plus you get a nice box. Pretty good deal, if you ask me. :) Quality is amazing, the art is beyond beautiful. I can recommend. :)

Specifically, this is about the leatherette bound pocket-sized Special Edition, as I've noticed that some reviews overlap between different editions. This is not a review of the story. Anyone considering buying this version either doesn't need my review of the books or should search the internet for the millions of existing reviews; it's enough for me to just say that there's a reason this is one of the most famous fantasy series of all time for good reason. This printing/binding is exactly what I was hoping for. The books are very beautiful in a simple way. The covers are in fact floppy fake leather, not leather-covered hardbacks. They are very soft and pliable, smooth and with a nice thick and creamy paper. The font is very small but clear and bold, perfectly legible if you don't have problems reading up close. The maps are as good as they can be being so tiny, and some details are lost. This is a set that will look great on the shelf. No gold leaf or anything to really pop out, but their small size and subdued covers that look like they could have been printed decades ago add a certain charm. The size and light weight make them perfect books to read on the go, and people will be curious about what you're reading because of how they look.

N'ayant jamais lu le Hobbit ni le Seigneur des Anneaux ne serais-ce qu'en Français et ayant été complètement plongé dans l'univers de Tolkien grâce aux adaptations de Peter Jackson, j'ai donc souhaité découvrir plus en détails ce riche univers. Souhaitant une belle édition, les éditions Françaises ne me plaisaient pas plus que ça, car dans l'ensemble assez vieillottes ! J'ai donc décidé de me tourner sur les éditions Anglaises ayant un bon niveau, permettant ainsi de lire le texte original, et avec une superbe édition. Ce coffret 4 livres Hobbit + Seigneur de Anneaux et simplement superbe, les finitions du coffret et des couvertures sont en simili-cuir (très agréable au toucher), avec un très beau lettrage. Les livres comportent les cartes et quelques illustrations : c'est top ! De plus ces livres étant des éditions de poche, restent très maniable et faciles à transporter (attention cependant le texte est écrit assez petit), le qualité du papier est également très bien. Bref, quel plaisir de découvrir ces œuvres de Tolkien avec cette édition, et surtout à ce prix : foncez !!