Fourth in a series of hardcover boxed sets celebrating the literary achievement of Christopher Tolkien, featuring double-sided dustjackets. Set 4 contains Morgoth''s Ring, The War of the Jewels, The Peoples of Middle-earth and The History of Middle-earth Index.
Morgoth''s Ring is the first of two companion volumes documenting the later writing of The Silmarillion. The text of the Annals of Aman, the ''Blessed Land'' in the far West, is given in full; while further writings reveal the nature of the problems that Tolkien explored in his later years, as new and radical ideas, portending upheaval in the old narratives, emerged at the heart of the mythology.
The War of the Jewels continues the account of the later history of The Silmarillion, as the story returns to Middle-earth, and the ruinous conflict of the High Elves and the Men who were their allies with the power of the Dark Lord.
The Peoples of Middle-earth is this capstone to Tolkien''s history of Middle-earth, presenting a chronology of the later Ages, the Hobbit genealogies, and the Western language or Common Speech. Here too are valuable writings from Tolkien''s last years: "The New Shadow," in Gondor of the Fourth Age, and" Tal-elmar," the tale of the coming of the Numenorean ships.
The History of Middle-earth Index This companion edition to the twelve-volume History now brings together all of the indexes in one place, and provides the reader with an invaluable sourcebook to all the peoples, places and other significant entries from The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings which appear in The History of Middle-earth.
Published together for the first time, these four books collect a fascinating period of Christopher Tolkien''s forty-year career devoted to presenting his father J.R.R. Tolkien''s writings on Middle-earth, a unique accomplishment that celebrates the greatest invented world in all of fantasy literature.
Complete integrated indices of History of Middle-earth volumes to complement new series. For the first time every index from each of the twelve volumes of The History Of Middle-earth has been published together in a single volume - to create a supreme index charting the writing of Tolkien''s masterpieces The Lord of The Rings and The Silmarillion. This stunning work of reference complements the fascinating History of Middle-earth series, now repackaged to complement the distinctive and classic style of the ''black cover'' A-format paperbacks of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales.
With Christopher Tolkien as your guide, take a tour through this colourful gallery of enchanting art produced by J.R.R. Tolkien and presented in an elegant new slipcased edition.
This collection of pictures, with text by Christopher Tolkien, now reissued after almost 30 years confirms J.R.R. Tolkien''s considerable talent as an artist. It provides fascinating insight into his visual conception of many of the places and events familiar to readers of The Hobbit , The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion .
Examples of his art range from delicate watercolours depicting Rivendell, the Forest of Lothlorien, Smaug, and Old Man Willow, to drawings and sketches of Moria Gate and Minas Tirith. Together they form a comprehensive collection of Tolkien''s own illustrations for his most popular books.
Also included are many of his beautiful designs showing patterns of flowers and trees, friezes, tapestries and heraldic devices associated with the world of Middle-earth. In their variety and scope they provide abundant visual evidence of the richness of his imagination.
This enchanting gallery was personally selected by Christopher Tolkien who, through detailed notes on the sources for each picture, provides unique insight into the artistic vision of his father, J.R.R. Tolkien.
Third in a series of hardcover boxed sets celebrating the literary achievement of Christopher Tolkien, featuring double-sided dustjackets. Set 3 contains The Return of the Shadow, The Treason of Isengard, The War of the Ring, and Sauron Defeated (Books 6-9 of The History of Middle-earth).
The Return of the Shadow is the story of the first part of the history of the creation of The Lord of the Rings, a fascinating study of Tolkien''s great masterpiece, from its inception to the end of the first volume, The Fellowship of the Ring.
The Treason of Isengard continues the account of the creation of The Lord of the Rings started in the earlier volume, tracing the great expansion of the tale into new lands and peoples south and east of the Misty Mountains: the emergence of Lothlorien, of Ents, of the Riders of Rohan, and of Saruman the White in the fortress of Isengard.
The War of the Ringtakes up the story with the Battle of Helm''s Deep and the drowning of Isengard by the Ents, continues with the journey of Frodo, Sam and Gollum to the Pass of Cirith Ungol, describes the war in Gondor, and ends with the parley between Gandalf and the ambassador of the Dark Lord before the Black Gate of Mordor.
Sauron Defeated completes Christopher Tolkien''s fascinating study of The Lord of the Rings, beginning with Sam''s rescue of Frodo from the Tower of Cirith Ungol, and giving a very different account of the Scouring of the Shire, with many additional scenes and the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety.
Published together for the first time, these four books collect a fascinating period of Christopher Tolkien''s forty-year career devoted to presenting his father J.R.R. Tolkien''s writings on Middle-earth, a unique accomplishment that celebrates the greatest invented world in all of fantasy literature.
Découvrez l'histoire d'amour qui a donné naissance au monde du Seigneur des Anneaux et du Hobbit ! Des milliers d'années avant Aragorn et Arwen, un homme et une Elfe tentent de vivre un amour interdit et se lancent dans la plus formidable des aventures en Terre du Milieu : reprendre un trésor, le Silmaril au terrible dieu Morgoth.
En traversant mille périls vers sa forteresse, l'Elfe Lúthien nous montre que le plus grand des héros de Tolkien est une héroïne.
Ce volume contient 9 illustrations originales en couleurs d'Alan Lee, illustrateur du Seigneur des Anneaux, du Hobbit et du Silmarillio
La Formation de la Terre du Milieu présente le « vrai » Silmarillion tel que J.R.R. Tolkien l'a conçu dans les années 1920-1930, bien avant d'écrire Le Seigneur des Anneaux, dont il forme le décor. La Formation de la Terre du Milieu est un volume crucial puisque l'on y trouve non seulement la version « authentique » du Silmarillion - racontant la création du monde, l'apparition des dieux et des Elfes, les premières batailles et l'histoire de héros comme Túrin -, mais aussi des cartes en couleur ou en noir et blanc absolument inédites en français, accompagnées d'un commentaire éclairant, complétées par des chronologies et des textes historiques sous forme d'annales. L'écriture de ce quatrième volume de l'Histoire de la Terre du Milieu, à la fois épique et romanesque, témoigne de la maturité à laquelle sont parvenues les légendes de Tolkien, dix ans après les premières versions publiées dans Le Livre des Contes Perdus puis les poèmes des Lais du Beleriand. Même si L'Histoire de la Terre du Milieu se situe dans leur continuité, ce livre peut être lu seul, pour profiter des véritables trésors qu'il contient - dans une langue magnifiquement rendue en français par Daniel Lauzon.
The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition is twofold, for there exists an illuminating commentary on the text of the poem by the translator himself, in the written form of a series of lectures given at Oxford in the 1930s; and from these lectures a substantial selection has been made, to form also a commentary on the translation in this book. From his creative attention to detail in these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy and clarity of his vision. It is as if he entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf and his men shaking out their mail-shirts as they beached their ship on the coast of Denmark, listening to the rising anger of Beowulf at the taunting of Unferth, or looking up in amazement at Grendel''s terrible hand set under the roof of Heorot. But the commentary in this book includes also much from those lectures in which, while always anchored in the text, he expressed his wider perceptions. He looks closely at the dragon that would slay Beowulf ''snuffling in baffled rage and injured greed when he discovers the theft of the cup''; but he rebuts the notion that this is ''a mere treasure story'', ''just another dragon tale''. He turns to the lines that tell of the burying of the golden things long ago, and observes that it is ''the feeling for the treasure itself, this sad history'' that raises it to another level. ''The whole thing is sombre, tragic, sinister, curiously real. The ''treasure'' is not just some lucky wealth that will enable the finder to have a good time, or marry the princess. It is laden with history, leading back into the dark heathen ages beyond the memory of song, but not beyond the reach of imagination.'' Sellic Spell, a ''marvellous tale'', is a story written by Tolkien suggesting what might have been the form and style of an Old English folk-tale of Beowulf, in which there was no association with the ''historical legends'' of the Northern kingdoms.
