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Author | Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull |
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Cover artist | J. R. R. Tolkien |
Language | English |
Subject | The Lord of the Rings |
Genre | Non-fiction; Literary history; Literary analysis |
Publisher | HarperCollins (UK) Houghton Mifflin (US) |
Publication date | December 27, 2005 |
Pages | 894 + lxxxii (hardcover) 976 (paperback) |
ISBN | 0-00-720308-X (UK hardcover) 0-00-720907-X ( UK paperback) 0-618-64267-6 (US hardcover) |
OCLC | 61687696 |
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LC Class | PR6039.O32 L6338 2005 |
The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion (2005) is a nonfiction book by the scholars Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull. It is an annotated reference to J. R. R. Tolkien's heroic romance, The Lord of the Rings.
The Reader's Companion was designed to accompany the revised one-volume 50th anniversary edition of The Lord of the Rings (Houghton Mifflin, 2004; ISBN 0-618-51765-0). It is available in both hardcover and paperback, and not to be confused with Hammond and Scull's similarly named reference book The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide (2006).