"The tone is heroic, both the heroes and the villains greater than life-size." -- New York Times Book Review Unfinished Tales of N menor and Middle-earth concentrates on the lands of Middle-earth and comprises Gandalf's lively account of how he cam…
A new edition of Tolkien's collection of tales and legends chronicling the world's beginnings and the happenings of the First Age focuses on the theft of the Simarils--the three jewels crafted by Fèeanor--by Morgoth, first Dark Lord of Middle-earth,…
The second of two companion volumes which documents the later writing of The Silmarillion, Tolkien's epic tale of war.
The tale of Beren and L thien was, or became, an essential element in the evolution of The Silmarillion, the myths and legends of the First Age of the World conceived by J.R.R. Tolkien. Returning from France and the battle of the Somme at the end of…
New York Times Bestseller "A good introduction to LOTR fans nervous about taking on The Silmarillion, and also gives longtime fans a fascinating look at the Tolkiens' myth-making process."--EntertainmentWeekly.com "A beautiful book."--San Antonio…
Poems and prose, maps and chronologies, detours and diversions along the road to Middle-earth . . . Christopher Tolkien has gathered archival materials that his late father, J. R. R. Tolkien, used to create the world and the history behind his class…
"Majestic . . . Readers of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings will find in The Silmarillion a cosmology to call their own, medieval romances, fierce fairy tales, and fiercer wars that ring with heraldic fury . . . It overwhelms the reader." -- Tim…
The History of Middle-earth 5 Edited by Christopher Tolkien INKLINGS OF GREATNESS . . . J.R.R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis were friends and fellow members of the literary circle known as The Inklings. It is hardly surprising that, at one point, these ta…
I urval av Humphrey Carpenter, med bistånd av Christopher Tolkien. Här presenteras ett stort urval brev från 1914 till 1973 av J.R.R. Tolkien. Den världsberömde författaren var en hängiven brevskrivare och korresponderade med sina förläggare, familj…
There are tales of Middle-earth from times long before The Lord of the Rings, and the story told in this book is set in the great country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West: lands where Treebeard once walked, but that were drowned in the gr…
The first of a two-book set that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, The Silmarillion.
The concluding volume of The History of Middle-earth series, which examines the Appendices to The Lord of the Rings.
The final part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, an enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes and includes the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety.
The popular paperback edition of this fascinating collection of stories, which continue the tales of The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion and contains an alternative version of The Children of Hurin.
A number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, THE SILMARILLION is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work that he could not publish in his lifetime because it grew with him. Its origins stretch back to a t…
'...If you wanted to go on from the end of The Hobbit I think the ring would be your inevitable choice as the link. If then you wanted a large tale, the Ring would at once acquire a capital letter; and the Dark Lord would immediately appear. As he d…
The Fall of Arthur, the only venture by J.R.R. Tolkien into the legends of Arthur, king of Britain, may well be regarded as his finest and most skillful achievement in the use of Old English alliterative meter, in which he brought to his transformin…
The first of two companion volumes which documents the later writing of The Silmarillion, Tolkien's epic tale of war.
Many years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version of the great legend of Northern antiquity, recounted here in The Legend of Sigurd and Gudr n. In the Lay of the V lsungs is told the ancestry of the great hero Sigurd, the slayer of F fnir, mos…
The second part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, an enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes and includes the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety.
The first part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, an enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes and includes the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety.
The third part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, an enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes and includes the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety.
The fourth volume that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, The Silmarillion.
The third volume that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, The Silmarillion.
New York Times bestseller"A thrill . . . Beowulf was Tolkien's lodestar. Everything he did led up to or away from it." --New Yorker J.R.R. Tolkien completed his translation of Beowulf in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but…
This special collector's edition features all 12 parts of the series bound in three volumes. Each book includes a silk ribbon marker and is quarter-bound in black, with grey boards stamped in gold foil, and the set is presented in a matching black s…
It is little known that J.R.R. Tolkien also produced a vast amount of further material that greatly expanded upon the mythology and numerous stories of Middle-Earth. Tolkien's youngest son applied himself to produce the monumental series of 12 books…
The second of a two-book set that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, The Silmarillion.
The fifth volume of the History of Middle-earth, containing the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, The Silmarillion.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth of the uttermost evil, unseen in this story but ruling over a vast military power from his fortress of Angband. Deeply op…
Every index from each of the 12 volumes of "The History Of Middle-Earth" is published together in this single volume - to create an index charting the writing of Tolkien's masterpieces "The Lord of The Rings" and "The Silmarillion".
Long before the One Ring was forged in the fires of Mount Doom, one man--H rin--dared to defy Morgoth, the first and greatest of the dark lords to plague Middle-earth. Thus did he and his children, T rin and Ni nor, earn the enmity of a merciless fo…
Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.
The Treason of Isengard is the seventh volume in Christopher Tolkien's History of Middle-earth and the second in his account of the evolution of The Lord of the Rings. This book follows the long halt in the darkness of the Mines of Moria (which ende…
Húrins barn er en episk fortelling om striden mellom Morgoth og alvene i Det første tideverv, om dragen Glaurung mot Húrins etterkommere Túrin og Niënor, om ondskapen mot de gode kreftene. J.R.R. Tolkien begynte på Beretningen om Húrins barn rundt f…
In The War of the Ring Christopher Tolkien takes up the story of the writing of The Lord of the Rings with the Battle of Helm's Deep and the drowning of Isengard by the Ents. This is followed by an account of how Frodo, Sam and Gollum were finally b…
For generations, J.R.R. Tolkien's words have brought to thrilling life a world of hobbits, magic, and historic myth, woken from its foggy slumber within our minds. Here, he tells the tales is his own voice.Of historic note, these selections from The…
This edition contains the first five volumes of "The History of Middle-Earth", by J.R.R. Tolkien's son and literary heir. These volumes give an account of the writing of "The Lord of the Rings", and provide the reader with numerous additional scenes…
Tales and legends chronicling the world's beginnings and the happenings of the First Age set the stage for Tolkien's other classic works and focus on the theft of the Elves' jewels by Morgoth, first dark Lord of Middle-earth
This new hardcover edition brings together the first five volumes of The History of Middle-earth--The Book of Lost Tales, Parts 1 and 2, The Lays of Beleriand, The Shaping of Middle-earth, and The Lost Road--into one volume. J.R.R. Tolkien is famo…
Gud, Eru Ilúvatur, skaper verden og lar sine tjenere valaene hjelpe til. En av valaene gjør opprør mot Gud og blir Morgoth, Fienden i Midgard. Valaene går til krig mot Morgoth. Krigen vekker alvene, Guds førstefødte barn, og valaene fører dem til si…
The Book of Lost Tales was the first major work of imagination by J.R.R. Tolkien, begun in 1916-1917 when he was twenty-five years old and left incomplete several years later. It stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and V…
Tolkienin riipaiseva taru upealla kuvituksella Gondolinin tuho, J. R. R. Tolkienin ensimmäinen kertomus Keski-Maasta, julkaistaan Alan Leen kuvittamana laitoksena, johon Christopher Tolkien on koonnut sykähdyttävän tarun versiot varhaisimmasta viime…
