The Lord of the Rings 3 book boxset (movie covers)

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These elaborate illustrations are exceptionally drawn, showing a glimpse of scene from within the stories. The light, almost unnoticeable cool and neutral colors make these covers stand out even more.

These covers feature beautifully illustrated scenes from each story of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Using the colors blue, green, and red gives each book its own individual personality.

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The covers for the 1999 edition are photorealistic and brilliantly designed. The blue, red, and green squares give the covers coordination in the design, and relate them all together.

For the first time ever, a very special edition of the classic masterpiece, illustrated throughout in colour by the author himself and with the complete text printed in two colours.

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Ballantine’s cover designs present s mystical, magical and brilliant visual display for the Lord of the Rings Trilogy books. There’s a wide spectrum of cool colors which bring about the feeling of mystery. Book covers for the authorized Canadian edition of the Lord of the Rings The designs for the 1995 edition of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy books are colorful, bright, and abstract. It doesn’t reveal much as to what the story could be about, but it gives a nice visual design with vibrant color schemes. In some rare cases, adaptations and interpretations of a literary work can surpass the source. Despite hundreds of valiant efforts on the part of fans, filmmakers, game/toy designers, and radio producers, this has never been true of the fully-realized fantasy world in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. (not that it’s ever been anyone’s intent). As we noted in a post last week, Tolkien’s fictional world is so intricate, its sources so vast and varied, that Corey Olsen, “ The Tolkien Professor,” has made it his entire life’s work to open that world up to students and curious readers, most recently with his eight-part lecture series on The Hobbit. Houghton-Miffin’s covers for the Lord of the Rings Trilogy books are mythical, and give a feeling of mystery as to what’s waiting inside the books. The uniquely designed images in each book coordinate with one another and look as though they’re different views of the same mystical scene.

One might also add illustrators to the list of Tolkien interpreters above who have—in the almost eighty years since The Hobbit’s publication and sixty years since the first appearance of The Lord of the Rings trilogy—done their best to visualize Tolkien’s world. But perhaps no one did so better than the master himself. Long known as a visual artist as well as a literary one, Tolkien left behind over 100 illustrations for The Hobbit, one of which adorns 2011’s HarperCollins 75th anniversary edition of the book. He also created these original cover designs for each book in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Alan Lee’s designs for the this edition of the Lord of the Rings books is magical and visually exciting. The covers are all brought together using a ring on each, containing the book’s title.The Canadian edition covers crisply illustrated, featuring a ring in the center, serving as a window to a beautiful scene from within the story. The covers are color coded, using a different bold primary color for each volume.