{"title":"Christopher Tolkien","description":"J.R.R. TOLKIEN (1892-1973) is the creator of Middle-earth and the author of such classic and extraordinary works of fiction as The Hobbit,  The Lord of the Rings,  and The Silmarillion. His books have been translated into more than fifty languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide. CHRISTOPHER TOLKIEN is the third son of J.R.R. Tolkien. Appointed by Tolkien to be his literary executor, he has devoted himself to the editing and publication of unpublished writings.","products":[{"product_id":"beowulf-a-translation-and-commentary-paperback","title":"Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJ. R. R. Tolkien\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eChristopher Tolkien\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA beautifully designed hardcover box set containing four classic myths and legends composed or translated by J.R.R. Tolkien \u003c\/strong\u003e--\u003cstrong\u003e \u003cem\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Fall of Arthur\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe fifth set in a series of affordable hardcover box sets celebrating the literary achievement of Christopher Tolkien, featuring double-sided dust jackets. Set 5 contains \u003cem\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Fall of Arthur\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBeowulf: A Translation and Commentary\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePearl\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. \u003cem\u003eSir Gawain\u003c\/em\u003e is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults, full of life and colour; \u003cem\u003ePearl\u003c\/em\u003e is apparently an elegy on the death of a child but, like Gawain, it is also a sophisticated and moving debate on much less tangible matters. \u003cem\u003eSir Orfeo\u003c\/em\u003e is a slighter romance, belonging to an earlier and different tradition. It was a special favourite of Tolkien's. The three translations are here uniquely accompanied with the complete text of Tolkien's acclaimed 1953 W.P. Ker Memorial Lecture that he delivered on Sir Gawain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e tells the epic story of the Norse hero, Sigurd, the dragon-slayer, during a time of gods, betrayal and fierce battles; the revenge of his wife, Gudrún; and the Fall of the Nibelungs. Told in verse composed by J.R.R. Tolkien derived from the ancient poetry of the Poetic Edda and the prose Völsunga Saga, this masterful fusion of myth and poetry is accompanied by notes and commentary by Christopher Tolkien.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Fall of Arthur\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e tells the extraordinary story of the final days of England's legendary hero, King Arthur. It is the only venture by J.R.R. Tolkien into the legends of Arthur King of Britain, and may well be regarded as his finest and most skilful achievement in the use of the Old English alliterative metre. The long narrative poem is accompanied by significant if tantalising notes, in which can be discerned clear if mysterious associations of the Arthurian conclusion with \u003cem\u003eThe Silmarillion\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe translation of \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e by J.R.R. Tolkien was completed in 1926: he returned to it later but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition is twofold, for the translation is here paired with an illuminating written commentary on the poem by the translator himself, prepared for a series of lectures given at Oxford in the 1930s. From these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy and clarity of his vision. It is as if Tolkien 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are accompanied by \u003cem\u003eSellic\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003espell\u003c\/em\u003e, a \"marvellous tale\" 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished together for the first time, these four books--all edited by the author's son and literary executor--collect a fascinating period of Christopher Tolkien's forty-year career devoted to presenting his father J.R.R. 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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 transforming perceptions of the old narratives a pervasive sense of the grave and fateful nature of all that is told: of Arthur's expedition overseas into distant heathen lands, of Guinevere's flight from Camelot, of the great sea battle on Arthur's return to Britain, in the portrait of the traitor Mordred, in the tormented doubts of Lancelot in his French castle.\u003c\/p\u003eUnhappily, \u003ci\u003eThe Fall of Arthur\u003c\/i\u003e was one of several long narrative poems that Tolkien abandoned. He evidently began it in the 1930s, and it was sufficiently advanced for him to send it to a very perceptive friend who read it with great enthusiasm at the end of 1934 and urgently pressed him, \"You simply must finish it!\" But in vain: he abandoned it at some unknown date, though there is evidence that it may have been in 1937, the year of publication of \u003ci\u003eThe Hobbit\u003c\/i\u003e and the first stirrings of \u003ci\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/i\u003e. Years later, in a letter of 1955, he said that he \"hoped to finish a long poem on \u003ci\u003eThe Fall of Arthur\u003c\/i\u003e,\" but that day never came.Associated with the text of the poem, however, are many manuscript pages: a great quantity of drafting and experimentation in verse, in which the strange evolution of the poem's structure is revealed, together with narrative synopses and significant tantalizing notes. In these notes can be discerned clear if mysterious associations of the Arthurian conclusion with \u003ci\u003eThe Silmarillion\u003c\/i\u003e, and the bitter ending of the love of Lancelot and Guinevere, which was never written.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e An incomplete but highly compelling retelling . . . An action-packed, doom-haunted saga, full of vivid natural description. \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Fall of Arthur\u003c\/i\u003e recounts in verse the last campaign of King Arthur, who, even as he stands at the threshold of Mirkwood, is summoned back to Britain by news of the treachery of Mordred. Already weakened in spirit by Guinevere s infidelity with the now-exiled Lancelot, Arthur must rouse his knights to battle one last time against Mordred s rebels and foreign mercenaries. Powerful, passionate, and filled with vivid imagery, this unfinished poem reveals Tolkien s gift for storytelling at its brilliant best. Christopher Tolkien, editor, contributes three illuminating essays that explore the literary world of King Arthur, reveal the deeper meaning of the verses and the painstaking work that his father applied to bring it to a finished form, and explore the intriguing links between the poem and Tolkien s Middle-earth. \u003cbr\u003e Compelling in pace, haunted by loss, it lives up to expectations. \u003ci\u003eDaily Beast\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Erudite and beautiful. NPR.org \u003cbr\u003eJ.R.R. TOLKIEN (1892 1973) is the creator of Middle-earth and author of such classic and extraordinary works of fiction as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. His books have been translated into more than sixty languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\"","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50108233515231,"sku":"9780544227835","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/b7mNFj9GBW9780544227835.webp?v=1781215159"},{"product_id":"the-fall-of-gondolin-paperback-1","title":"The Fall of Gondolin - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"An essential historical reference for Middle-earth fans\" (\u003cem\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e), \u003cem\u003eThe Fall Of Gondolin\u003c\/em\u003e is the final work of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fiction, completing Christopher Tolkien's life-long achievement as the editor and curator of his father's manuscripts.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the \u003cem\u003eTale of The Fall of Gondolin \u003c\/em\u003eare 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 opposed to Morgoth is Ulmo, second in might only to Manwë, chief of the Valar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCentral to this enmity of the gods is the city of Gondolin, beautiful but undiscoverable. It was built and peopled by Noldorin Elves who, when they dwelt in Valinor, the land of the gods, rebelled against their rule and fled to Middle-earth. Turgon King of Gondolin is hated and feared above all his enemies by Morgoth, who seeks in vain to discover the marvellously hidden city, while the gods in Valinor in heated debate largely refuse to intervene in support of Ulmo's desires and designs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInto this world comes Tuor, cousin of Túrin, the instrument of Ulmo's designs. Guided unseen by him Tuor sets out from the land of his birth on the fearful journey to Gondolin, and in one of the most arresting moments in the history of Middle-earth the sea-god himself appears to him, rising out of the ocean in the midst of a storm. In Gondolin he becomes great; he is wedded to Idril, Turgon's daughter, and their son is Eärendel, whose birth and profound importance in days to come is foreseen by Ulmo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt last comes the terrible ending. Morgoth learns through an act of supreme treachery all that he needs to mount a devastating attack on the city, with Balrogs and dragons and numberless Orcs. After a minutely observed account of the fall of Gondolin, the tale ends with the escape of Túrin and Idril, with the child Eärendel, looking back from a cleft in the mountains as they flee southward, at the blazing wreckage of their city. They were journeying into a new story, the Tale of Eärendel, which Tolkien never wrote, but which is sketched out in this book from other sources.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing his presentation of \u003cem\u003eBeren and Lúthien \u003c\/em\u003eChristopher Tolkien has used the same 'history in sequence' mode in the writing of this edition of \u003cem\u003eThe Fall of Gondolin. \u003c\/em\u003eIn the words of J.R.R. 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