The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy - Photo Guide

by David Brawn, Alison Sage

The official children's photo guide to Lord of the Rings.

This full-colour photo guidebook is packed with stunning pictures of the key characters, creatures and places in Peter Jackson's film version of The Lord of the Rings.

Discover the origins of the One Ring and the terrifying creatures of the Dark Lord Sauron. Meet the hobbits and a world of wizards, dwarves, elves and orcs - and Gollum. Follow the Fellowship as they embark on their perilous quest to restore peace to Middle-earth.

Contains over 250 photographs from the films, many published in here for the very first time.

Genres: Fantasy

160 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2004

About the author

Librarian's note: There is more than one author on GoodReads with this name.

David Brawn is the Publishing Director for Harper Collins, responsible for all works by J.R.R. Tolkien that are put out by the publishing house.

Reviews

[Marie Christine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Simple story but beautiful book.

[Fran · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not just the three photo guides put together (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Photo Guide, The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers Photo Guide, The Lord of the Rings the Return of the King Photo Guide) - some additional plot details have been added (most notably to the Fellowship section, which was in dire need of it, and the Return of the King section where the full ending has been included) and lots of the photos have been altered (where spoiler-y photos couldn't be used pre-release). Not all the photos used in the book are of great quality, and most of the places where the photos have been replaced, captures from the film are used instead of production stills taken with by a proper photographer. So, it's not particularly great quality but it is intended for kids so it can get away with it.

I don't know if they still sell this or not, but if you wanted a story guide for kids this is better to get than the three individual ones (which I know they don't sell any more anyway, and you'd have to source those from ebay/other 2nd hand bookseller).

[Charity U · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is called the official children's photo guide, but I think adults will enjoy it as well! It's packed with pictures, including some I'd never seen before, and is in a story format. Lots of pictures, a few words, just enough to tell the story. I was especially glad that this book, at least, goes all the way to the very end of the movie. A lot end right before the climax, which is a bummer. It's a beautiful photo collection!

[Sandra · Rating 3 out of 5]

The story as told in this book is a little.. off, but it's quite a beautiful book with loads of pictures and that makes it worth the read.

[Vali Archip Stefan]

very good!