{"product_id":"the-fellowship-of-the-ring-lord-of-the-rings","title":"The Fellowship of the Ring (Lord of the Rings)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Lord of the Rings  J.R.R. Tolkiens three-volume epic  is set in the imaginary world of Middle-earth -- home to many strange beings  and most notably hobbits  a peace-loving \"little people \" cheerful and shy. Since its original British publication in 1954-55  the saga has entranced readers of all ages. It is at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale. Critic Michael Straight has hailed it as one of the \"very few works of genius in recent literature.\" Middle-earth is a world receptive to poets  scholars  children  and all other people of good will. Donald Barr has described it as \"a scrubbed morning world  and a ringing nightmare world...especially sunlit  and shadowed by perils very fundamental  of a peculiarly uncompounded darkness.\" The story of this world is one of high and heroic adventure. Barr compared it to Beowulf  C.S. Lewis to Orlando Furioso  W.H. Auden to The Thirty-nine Steps. In fact the saga is sui generis -- a triumph of imagination which springs to life within its own framework and on its own terms.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986808827957,"sku":"ByrdShop_0395272238","price":59.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780395272237.jpg?v=1770918073","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-fellowship-of-the-ring-lord-of-the-rings","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}