The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings Boxed Set: Illustrated Edition

"Yes! So the first thing to say here is that Alan Lee’s illustrations for Tolkien were first seen in the 60th anniversary Hobbit edition and centenary Lord of the Rings edition, and he was the conceptual designer for the films of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. If you have a sense of how Middle-earth is meant to look, the chances are you’ve osmosed it from Lee. So this rendering of the world might well feel pleasingly ‘correct’. And whether or not that applies to you, these are beautiful. All four are boxed together, in hardback. There are seventy colour pages across the set, as well as many more illustrations. Lee’s art style is often compared to William Morris, whom Tolkien admired, and it just fits . It’s easy to see why he won the World Fantasy Award for Best Artist in 1998 when the centenary edition of The Hobbit came out."