{"title":"J. R. R. 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 Unfinished Tales. 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 Appointed by Tolkien to be his literary executor, he has devoted himself to the editing and publication of unpublished writings.","products":[{"product_id":"the-book-of-lost-tales-part-one-paperback","title":"The Book of Lost Tales: Part One - 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)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Book of Lost Tales was the first major work of imagination by J.R.R. Tolkien, begun in 1916-17 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 Valinor, for these tales were the first form of the myths and legends that came to be called The Silmarillion. Embedded in English legend, they are set in the narrative frame of a great westward voyage over the Ocean by a mariner named Eriol (or AElfwine) to Tol Eressea, the Lonely Isle, where elves dwelt; from him they learned their true history, the Lost Tales of Elfinesse. In these Tales are found the earliest accounts and original ideas of Gods and Elves, Dwarves, Balrogs, and Orcs; of the Silmarils and the Two Trees of Valinor; of Nargothrond and Gondolin; of the geography and cosmology of Middle-earth. Volume One contains the tales of The Music of the Ainur, The Building of valinor, The Chaining of Melko, The coming of the Elves and The Flight of the Noldoli, among others. Each tale is followed by a short essay by Christopher Tolkien, the author's son and literary executor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e'For the true devotee of Tolkien 'The Book of Lost Tales' is a treasure trove to match the hoard of the dragon Smaug himself. The pure imaginative power of J.R.R. Tolkien shines through with a light just as dazzling as that of the Two Trees. The serious student of Tolkien will find much delight in this book, and it serves as an excellent example of the creative imagination at work.' -Don Sakers, Baltimore Sun\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 8.76 x 5.56 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 20, 1986\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101543534815,"sku":"9780395409275","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Ops21Z2j5b9780395409275.webp?v=1781204860"},{"product_id":"the-fall-of-gondolin-paperback","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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Returning from France and the battle of the Somme at the end of 1916, he wrote the tale in the following year. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Essential to the story, and never changed, is the fate that shadowed the love of Beren and Lúthien: for Beren was a mortal man, but Lúthien was an immortal elf. Her father, a great elvish lord, in deep opposition to Beren, imposed on him an impossible task that he must perform before he might wed Lúthien. This is the kernel of the legend; and it leads to the supremely heroic attempt of Beren and Lúthien together to rob the greatest of all evil beings, Melkor, called Morgoth, the Black Enemy, of a Silmaril. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this book Christopher Tolkien has attempted to extract the story of Beren and Lúthien from the comprehensive work in which it was embedded; but that story was itself changing as it developed new associations within the larger history. To show something of the process whereby this legend of Middle-earth evolved over the years, he has told the story in his father's own words by giving, first, its original form, and then passages in prose and verse from later texts that illustrate the narrative as it changed. 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R. R. Tolkien\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eChristopher Tolkien\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An essential historical reference for Middle-earth fans\" (\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eThe Fall Of Gondolin\u003c\/i\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\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this legendary fantasy, the \u003ci\u003eTale of The Fall of Gondolin\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. 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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. 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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. Tolkien's scholarly writings on the myths and legends of northern Europe, a unique accomplishment that celebrates the academic brilliance and storytelling genius of one of the twentieth century's finest literary pioneers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFront cover: \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Back cover: \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A thrill . . . \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e was Tolkien s lodestar. Everything he did led up to or away from it. \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e J.R.R. Tolkien completed his translation of \u003ci\u003eBeowulf \u003c\/i\u003ein 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition includes an illuminating written commentary on the poem by the translator himself, drawn from a series of lectures he gave at Oxford in the 1930s.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e His creative attention to detail in these lectures gives rise to 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 beach their ship on the coast of Denmark, listening to Beowulf s rising anger at Unferth s taunting, or looking up in amazement at Grendel s terrible hand set under the roof of Heorot.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Essential for students of the Old English poem and the ideal gift for devotees of the One Ring. \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e J.R.R. TOLKIEN (1892 1973) is the creator of Middle-earth and the author of such classic and extraordinary works of fiction as \u003ci\u003eThe Hobbit\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Silmarillion\u003c\/i\u003e. His books have been translated into more than sixty languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e CHRISTOPHER TOLKIEN is the third son of J.R.R. Tolkien. He has devoted himself since his father s death to the editing and publication of unpublished writings, notably \u003ci\u003eThe Silmarillion\u003c\/i\u003e and the collections entitled \u003ci\u003eUnfinished Tales\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe History of Middle-earth\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJ.R.R. 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