’Among the greatest works of imaginative fiction of the twentieth century.’

--Sunday Telegraph

’Tolkien was a storyteller of genius.’

--Literary Review

THE SECOND PART OF J.R.R. TOLKIEN’S EPIC ADVENTURE THE LORD OF THE RINGS, ILLUSTRATED IN COLOUR BY ALAN LEE.

The Company of the Ring is sundered. Frodo and’Sam continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin - alone that is, save for a mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go.

Thus continues the classic tale begun in The Fellowship of the Ring, which reaches its awesome climax in The Return of the King.

Synopsis

List of Plates

BOOK THREE

  I The Departure of Boromir

 II The Riders of Rohan

III The Uruk-hai

 IV Treebeard

  V The White Rider

 VI The King of the Golden Hall

VII Helm's Deep

VIII The Road to Isengard

 IX Flotsam and Jetsam

  X The Voice of Saruman

 XI The Palantir

BOOK FOUR

  I The Taming of Smeagol

 II The Passage of the Marshes

III The Black Gate is Closed

 IV Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit

  V The Window on the West

 VI The Forbidden Pool

 VII Journey to the Cross-roads

VIII The Stairs of Cirith Ungol

  IX Shelob's Lair

X The Choices of Master Samwise