it's a shame that for non-English LOTR exists in French than in the version translated by F. Ledoux which in my opinion (and I am not the only one to think) is a poor translator. Let me explain: it lacks whole passages of the book, style is absolutely not made, proper names are translated approximate way ... Tolkien, who was late linguist must surely be turning in his grave! Notice to Anglophones, buy the book in English.