The cover of this book caught my eyes, and Decided to purchase it since about 7 years ago, a very good friend of mine, Dan Platt from New Zealand gave me a hard time for being white naive and ignorant about not reading (or at least not giving my time to read) the book. I'm a neuroscientist and if you are in science and research, most is of the time you'll be reading journals and books in your field. So I guess, this was my excuse, but not anymore. To cut the long story short, I absolutely loved the book. This book contained all 3 volumes (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King). The book contains a Prologue to Introduce the reader to the nature of gasoline and characters of the hand, as well as an Appendix and Index, and to guide the reader further Top Provide information about the story. The book HAS over 1000 pages and includes maps and illustrations. It's good value and well spent in my opinion. JRR Tolkien HAS written a Masterpiece. Words are not enough to describe how great this book is. Once you started reading it, you just can not stop it. The story is riveting, with your imagination always Pushed to the limit. The book contains facets of life imaginable, from foe to friendship, adventures to misadventures, tribulations to Triumphs, good and evil, and so on. The story Itself aussi Showed Focused on diversity and a great deal of humanity in Each of the characters Involved. It is highly recommended reading not only for teens and young adults, grown ups like to order myself. I'm very much looking forward to seeing the 3-series movie by my compatriot, Peter Jackson.