New Releases by Christopher Tolkien

Christopher Tolkien is the author of Great Tales of Middle-Earth Box Set (2025), Tolkien Myths and Legends Box Set (2025), The History of Middle-Earth Box Set #3 (2024), 후린의 아이들 (2024), The History of Middle-Earth Box Set #2 (2024).

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Great Tales of Middle-Earth Box Set

release date: Aug 19, 2025
Great Tales of Middle-Earth Box Set
The Great Tales of Middle-earth is a beautiful box set of the three final novels of Middle-earth: The Children of Húrin, Beren and Lúthien, and The Fall of Gondolin, packaged together and ready for gifting. Completing Christopher Tolkien''s lifelong achievement as the curator of his father J.R.R. Tolkien''s manuscripts, The Great Tales features handsome color plates and maps by famed illustrator Alan Lee and a map by Christopher Tolkien. The Children of Húrin was the first standalone story by J.R.R. Tolkien since the 1977 publication of The Silmarillion. Six thousand years before the One Ring is destroyed, Middle-earth lies under the shadow of the Dark Lord Morgoth. The greatest heroes among elves and men have perished, and all is in darkness and despair. But a new warrior arises, Túrin, son of Húrin, and with his grim band of outlaws begins to turn the tide in the war for Middle-earth--awaiting the day he confronts his destiny and the deadly curse laid upon him. Beren and Lúthien 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. 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. The Fall of Gondolin completes the set and tells the story of the legendary Elven city hidden within Middle-earth. Evil Morgoth seeks to destroy the last realm of his Elven enemies while Ulmo, Lord of the Waters, tries to protect it. At the core of the tale is Tuor, cousin of Túrin, who becomes great in Gondolin and marries, Idril, daughter of Turgon, king of Gondolin, and fathers a child, Eärendel. When an act of supreme treachery allows Morgoth to attack Gondolin, Tuor and his family must try to flee the blazing wreckage, for the fate of all of Middle-earth depends on Eärendel''s survival. Each hardcover volume includes color plates and pencil drawings by award-winning illustrator Alan Lee together with a black and white map drawn by Christopher Tolkien.

Tolkien Myths and Legends Box Set

release date: Jun 10, 2025

The History of Middle-Earth Box Set #3

release date: Jul 09, 2024
The History of Middle-Earth Box Set #3
Third in a series of hardcover box sets celebrating the literary achievement of Christopher Tolkien, featuring double-sided dust jackets--one side featuring artwork by John Howe, and the original graphic treatment on the other. 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 Ring takes 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.

후린의 아이들

후린의 아이들
J.R.R. 톨킨 레젠다리움 세계관의 기원 ‘가운데땅의 위대한 이야기들’ 완역 전면 개정판 출간 ★★★ 30여 년에 걸쳐 복원된 톨킨의 미완성 유작 ★★★ ★★★ 톨킨이 창조한 20세기 최고의 고전! ★★★ ★★★ 〈해리 포터〉, 〈리그 오브 레전드〉 세계관의 원류! ★★★ 전 세계 언론 및 명사들이 이 책에 보내는 찬사! “신화적인 공명과 거침없는 운명의 암울한 분위기를 풍기는 어둡고 아름다운 이야기.” -워싱턴 포스트 “미칠 듯이 건조하고 강인하게 단단하며 완벽하게 훌륭하다.” -인디펜던트 “톨킨 애독자를 넘어 모든 사람들에게 매력적인 판타지 걸작.” -더 타임스 ◎ 도서 소개 J.R.R. 톨킨 레젠다리움 세계관의 기원 ‘가운데땅의 위대한 이야기들’ 15년 만의 완역 전면 개정판 출간 크리스토퍼 톨킨이 30여 년에 걸쳐 복원한 톨킨의 미완성 유작 ★★★ 앨런 리의 컬러 삽화 8컷, 연필 드로잉 25컷 수록 ★★★ ★★★ 벨레리안드 3단 지도 수록 ★★★ 그리스의 ‘오이디푸스 왕’, 핀란드의 ‘쿨레르보’를 잇는 20세기 비극의 새로운 신화이자 톨킨 문학의 정수 생전 톨킨이 미처 끝내지 못한 한 편의 장대한 서사시 J.R.R. 톨킨이 평생에 걸쳐 새로운 구상을 거듭하며 개작 및 퇴고를 반복했던 방대한 ‘실마릴리온’ 신화 중에서도 특히 작가가 아꼈던 ‘가운데땅의 위대한 이야기들’의 서문을 여는 한 편의 비극적인 서사시 『후린의 아이들』이 북이십일 아르테에서 번역 출간되었다. “조국의 (신화적) 빈곤이 슬펐다”는 작가의 진심에서 구축되기 시작한 톨킨 레젠다리움 세계관에서도 특히 가장 먼저 집필됐고 작가가 사랑한 세 편의 이야기―『후린의 아이들』, 『베렌과 루시엔』, 『곤돌린의 몰락』―가 있는데, 이를 작가는 ‘위대한 이야기들Great Tales’이라고 불렀다. 대체로 요정들이 주역을 맡는 ‘실마릴리온’ 신화와 달리, 이들 세 편의 이야기는 모두 요정뿐만 아니라 ‘둘째자손’ 인간이 주인공이라는 공통점을 지닌다. 그중 『후린의 아이들』은 스스로를 투람바르, 곧 ‘운명의 주인’이라 칭했으나 고대 세계 인간들 중에서도 모르고스로부터 가장 격심한 고난을 받았던 투린 투람바르의 비극적 운명에 관한 다룬다. 인간적 한계와 약점을 지녔으나 숱한 고난을 감내하면서도 악에 대항하여 자신을 희생하는 그의 오랜 여정은 ‘실마릴리온’ 신화 중에서도 가장 완성도 높은 서사로 손꼽히며, 읽는 즐거움과 비극적 카타르시스를 동시에 선사한다. 이 책 『후린의 아이들』은 J.R.R. 톨킨이 일찍이 1920년대 초부터 집필을 시작했으나 생전에 미처 완성하지 못한 유작으로, 톨킨의 삼남 크리스토퍼 톨킨이 서재에서 원고를 발견하고 30여 년에 걸쳐 “가능한 한 왜곡하거나 가감하지 않는 선에서 무엇보다도 이야기의 빈틈을 메우고 흐름을 연결하여 한 편의 완결된 서사”가 될 수 있도록 복원하는 작업을 거쳐 비로소 출간될 수 있었다. 2007년 이 책의 첫 출간 당시 런던과 뉴욕에서는 이 책을 구입하려는 독자들로 장사진을 이뤘으며, 출간 2주 만에 전 세계 90만 부 이상이 판매되어 J.R.R. 톨킨이 ‘판타지의 제왕’이라는 것을 다시금 증명하였다. 후린과 그의 가족을 향한 모르고스의 끔찍한 저주. 그럼에도 스스로를 투람바르, 곧 ‘운명의 주인’이라 칭하고 가장 격심한 고난을 감내하며 가운데땅의 신화로 거듭난 인간 영웅 투린의 비극적 운명에 관한 대서사시 『후린의 아이들』은 ‘실마릴리온’에 등장하는 위대한 인간 영웅 중 한 명인 후린과 그의 자식 투린과 니에노르의 비극적 운명에 관해 다룬 작품이다. 학창 시절, 스칸디나비아 신화에 천착한 톨킨은 북구 신화와 영웅의 전설에서 묘사된 용과 영웅의 이야기에 매혹되었고, 1914년 핀란스 서사시 『쿨레르보 이야기』를 개작하며 “인간의 힘으로는 극복할 수 없는 강력한 절대악에게 굴복하지 않고 맞서다가 숙명적인 파멸을 맞은 인간 영웅” 투린이란 인물을 창조해냈다. ‘검은 적’ 모르고스의 끔찍한 저주를 타고난 인간 영웅의 끝없는 운명의 추락, 그것이 후린의 아이들에게 톨킨이 부여한 운명이었다. 그렇게 ‘후린의 아이들’의 가슴 저리는 사연은 북구 신화 전형적 면모를 드러내는 동시에, 장중한 그리스 비극의 정조와 울림 또한 담아내며 온전한 한 편의 작품으로 완성되었다. 『반지의 제왕』으로부터 약 6500년 전, 상고대의 가운데땅에는 암흑의 군주 모르고스가 마수를 뻗치고 있었다. 그러나 아직 세상은 젊고 요정들은 의기양양했다. 위대한 영웅들이 동과 서에서 빛나는 검을 맞잡고 모르고스의 세력을 가로막고 있었다. 페아노르의 장자 마에드로스가 모든 세력을 불러 모아 대연합의 장대한 구상을 실현하려는 바로 그 순간, 악의 속삭임에 넘어간 배신자들로 인해 동맹은 무너지고 요정들은 몰락한다. 한없는 눈물의 전투에서 요정 왕을 지키던 불굴의 인간 용사 후린은 모르고스의 포로가 된다. 모르고스는 자신에게 대항할 마지막 희망으로 예견되는 숨은왕국 곤돌린의 위치를 알아내려 하지만, 이를 발설하지 않으려는 후린에게 끔찍한 저주를 내리고, 이렇게 ‘나른 에라크 모르고스’, 즉 모르고스의 저주 이야기는 시작된다. “내 생각이 운명의 먹구름이 되어 네가 사랑하는 모든 자들을 짓누르고 그들을 암흑과 절망으로 몰고 갈 것이다.”-본문 중에서 스스로를 ‘운명의 주인’이라 칭한 투린은 결국 비극적인 운명을 맞는다. 가족에 의해 ‘애도’와 ‘눈물’을 강요받은 니에노르는 끔찍한 운명의 추락을 외친다. 지혜보다 사랑을 좇은 벨레그와 우정에게 사랑을 빼앗긴 귄도르, 탐욕과 배신의 서사를 지닌 밈, 흔들리는 마음의 핀두일라스, 버림받은 지혜의 브란디르 등 주변인들의 선택과 운명 또한 의미심장하다. 과연 그들은 운명에 지배당했는가. 그들을 파멸로 몰고 간 것은 무엇인가. 비극은 모르고스가 드리운 몰락의 저주 탓인가, 오만하고 고집 센 투린의 성격 탓인가. 후린과 투린 부자가 상고대의 가운데땅에 끼친 폐해는 무엇을 의미하는가. 운명과 자유의지를 둘러싼 첨예한 논쟁은 오늘날에도 여전히 현재진행형이다. 『반지의 제왕』으로부터 6천5백 년 전, 상고대 요정과 인간의 역사에서 필수 불가결한 세 편의 서사. J.R.R. 톨킨 레젠다리움 세계관의 기원인 ‘가운데땅의 위대한 이야기들’ 삼부작 국내 최초 출간 레젠다리움 세계관의 원류라 할 수 있는 ‘가운데땅의 위대한 이야기들’은 톨킨이 가장 아끼고 공들였던 첫 번째 상상 문학으로, 1916년 젊은 시절부터 집필을 시작하여 평생에 걸쳐 퇴고를 거듭하며 변화·발전시켰으나 결국 끝내지 못한 작품들이다. 톨킨 사후 그의 아들 크리스토퍼 톨킨이 과업을 이어받아 40여 년의 세월 동안 각고의 노력으로 복원한 끝에 마침내 완성된 이야기로 세상에 출간될 수 있었다. 이렇듯 톨킨의 많은 작품은 『호빗』과 『반지의 제왕』, 그리고 몇 가지 동화·논문·에세이를 제외하면 그의 생전에 출판되지 못했다. 그의 아들 크리스토퍼 톨킨(1924~2020)이 서재에서 발견한 원고들을 정리·편집하여 톨킨 사후 작품 중 다수를 출간하였지만, 오랜 시간 동안 한국어로는 번역되지 못했다. 톨킨의 작품을 더 폭넓게 이해하는 데 있어 이 점은 오랫동안 높은 장벽으로 남아 있었다. 북이십일 아르테에서는 지난 2018년부터 톨킨의 다양한 저작에 대한 번역 출판과 기존 번역의 재검토를 추진하여 2021년부터 톨킨의 책들을 출간해왔다. 『호빗』(2021)과 『반지의 제왕』(2021), 『실마릴리온』(2022), 『끝나지 않은 이야기』(2022)의 뒤를 이어 2023년 톨킨 세계관에서 가장 핵심을 이루는 작품들 중 일부인 『후린의 아이들』, 『베렌과 루시엔』, 『곤돌린의 몰락』을 출간, 앞으로도 톨킨의 책들을 꾸준히 선보일 계획이다. 옥스퍼드 보들리언 도서관의 톨킨 관련 특별 전시 도록 『J.R.R. 톨킨: 가운데땅의 창조자』에 이어 『햄의 농부 가일스』, 『톰 봄바딜의 모험』, 『큰 우튼의 대장장이』, 『로버랜덤』, 『톨킨 전기』, 『톨킨의 편지들-개정증보판』 등 더욱 폭넓고 깊이 있는 톨킨의 작품들을 향후 선보이기 위해 준비하고 있다. ◎ 책 속에서 “우린 더 이상 두려워하지 않아요.” 투린이 말했다. “전부는 아니에요. 우리 아버지도 그렇고 나도 두려워하지 않을 거예요. 아니 적어도 어머니처럼, 두려워하더라도 겉으로 드러내지는 않을 생각입니다.” _65p “우툴리엔 아우레! 아이야 엘달리에 아르 아타나타르니, 우툴리엔 아우레! 그날이 왔다. 보라, 엘다르 백성과 인간의 조상들이여, 그날이 왔다!” 그의 우렁찬 고함이 산속에 울려 퍼지는 것을 들은 모든 이들이 큰 소리로 화답했다. “아우타 이 로메! 밤은 지나가고 있다!” _76~77p “노예 모르고스, 그렇다면 이걸 마지막으로 전해 주겠다. 이것은 엘다르의 지식에서 얻은 것이 아니라 이 순간 내 마음속에 들어온 말이다. 너는 인간의 왕이 아니며, 온 아르다와 메넬이 너의 손안에 들어간다 하더라도 인간의 왕이 될 수 없을 것이다. 너는 너를 거부하는 이들을 세상의 둘레를 넘어서까지 쫓아가지는 못할 것이다.” _89p 사에로스는 경고를 무시하고 그의 눈길에 냉소로 답하면서 모두가 들을 수 있도록 크게 소리를 질렀다. “히슬룸 남자들이 그렇게 거칠고 사나우면, 그곳 여자들은 어느 정도인가? 발가벗은 채 털만 날리며 사슴처럼 뛰어다니는가? _115p “고향이라고 했소? 높고 차가운 어둠산맥이 우리를 가로막고 서 있소. 그 뒤에는 울도르 사람들이 있고, 그들 주변에는 앙반드 군대가 배치되어 있소. 당신들, 일곱 명의 일곱 배가 되는 당신들이 그런 것에 굴하지 않는다면, 내가 당신들을 고향으로 인도하리다. […]” _138p “내가 자네하고 같이 있게 된다면, 그건 지혜가 아니라 사랑 때문일 걸세. 내 마음은 우리가 도리아스로 돌아가야 한다고 경고하고 있네. 다른 곳은 어디나 어둠의 그림자가 우리 앞에 놓여 있거든.” _150p 그러나 귄도르가 그의 이름을 말하려 하자, 투린은 그를 가로막으며 이렇게 말했다. “나는 우마르스의 아들 아가르와엔(‘불운의 아들, 피투성이’)으로 숲속의 사냥꾼이오.” 하지만 요정들은 (다른 이유는 알지 못하고) 그가 친구를 죽인 사실 때문에 이런 이름을 취한 것으로 짐작하고 더 이상 묻지 않았다. _197~198p “후린의 아들, 네가 가는 모든 길은 사악함뿐이로구나. 너는 배은망덕한 양아들이며, 무법자이며, 친구를 죽인 자이며, 사랑을 도둑질한 자이며, 나르고스론드의 찬탈자이며, 무모한 지휘관이며, 일족을 버린 자로다. 너의 모친과 누이는 지금 도르로민에서 노예로 궁핍하고 비참하게 살고 있다. 너는 왕자처럼 차려입고 있으나 그들은 누더기를 걸치고 있고, 그들은 너를 애타게 찾으나 너는 전혀 상관치 않는구나. 그런 아들을 둔 것을 네 부친이 알면 참으로 기뻐하겠구나. 곧 알게 될 테지만 말이다.” _219~220p 이제부터 우린 쫓기는 몸입니다. 당신이 왔다 갔기 때문에 저 늑대 같은 놈들은 더욱 잔인해질 것입니다. 그러니, 가십시오. 우릴 구할 만한 힘을 갖추지 못하면 돌아오지 마세요. 안녕히 가십시오!” _233p 그녀는 진심으로 기뻐하며 부부의 연을 맺을 것을 약속하였고, 그들은 한여름에 결혼식을 올렸다. 숲속 사람들은 성대한 잔치를 열어 주었을 뿐만 아니라, 그들을 위해 아몬 오벨 위에 지은 예쁜 집을 선사했다. 그곳에서 그들은 행복하게 살았지만, 브란디르는 시름에 잠긴 채 마음속으로는 어둠이 더욱 깊어 갔다. _267p “엘레드웬! 엘레드웬!” 후린이 소리쳤다. 그녀가 일어나 비틀거리며 앞으로 걸어 나오자, 그가 두 팔로 그녀를 안았다. “드디어 오셨군요. 너무나 오랫동안 기다렸습니다.” “어두운 길이었소. 있는 힘을 다하여 달려왔다오.” 그가 대답했다. _311p

The History of Middle-Earth Box Set #2

release date: Apr 02, 2024
The History of Middle-Earth Box Set #2
Second in a series of hardcover box sets celebrating the literary achievement of Christopher Tolkien, featuring double-sided dust jackets. Set 2 contains The Lays of Beleriand, The Shaping of Middle-earth, and The Lost Road (Books 3-5 of The History of Middle-earth). The Lays of Beleriand gives us a privileged insight into the creation of the mythology of Middle-earth, through the alliterative verse tales of two of the most crucial stories in Tolkien''s world--those of Turin and Luthien. Accompanying the poems are commentaries on the evolution of the history of the Elder Days. Also included is the notable criticism of The Lay of Leithian by C.S. Lewis, who read the poem in 1929. In The Shaping of Middle-earth, the chronological and geographical structure of the legends of Middle-earth and Valinor is spread before us. We are introduced to the hitherto unknown Ambarkanta or "Shape of the World," the only account ever given of the nature of the imagined Universe, accompanied by maps and diagrams of the world before and after the cataclysms of The War of the Gods and the Downfall of Numenor. The Lost Road completes the examination of Tolkien''s writing before he began The Lord of the Rings, presenting later forms of the annals of Valinor and Beleriand, the legend of the downfall of Numenor, and the abandoned "time-travel" story "The Lost Road," linking the world of Numenor and Middle-earth with the legends of many other times and peoples. Published together for the first time, these three 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.

Children of Hurin

release date: Feb 20, 2024
Children of Hurin
Painstakingly restored from Tolkien''s manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, this paperback of the epic tale of The Children of Húrin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves, dragons, Dwarves and Orcs, and the rich landscape and characters unique to Tolkien. It is a legendary time long before The Lord of the Rings, and Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwells in the vast fortress of Angband in the North; and within the shadow of the fear of Angband, and the war waged by Morgoth against the Elves, the fates of Túrin and his sister Niënor will be tragically entwined. Their brief and passionate lives are dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bears them as the children of Húrin, the man who dared to defy him to his face. Against them Morgoth sends his most formidable servant, Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire, in an attempt to fulfil the curse of Morgoth, and destroy the children of Húrin. Begun by J.R.R. Tolkien at the end of the First World War, The Children of Húrin became the dominant story in his later work on Middle-earth. But he could not bring it to a final and finished form. In this book Christopher Tolkien has constructed, after long study of the manuscripts, a coherent narrative without any editorial invention.

The War of the Jewels

release date: Jun 13, 2023
The War of the Jewels
In volumes ten and eleven of The History of Middle-earth, Christopher Tolkien recounts from the original texts the evolution of his father''s work on The Silmarillion, the legendary history of the Elder Days or First Age, from the completion of the Lord of the Rings in 1949 until J.R.R. Tolkien''s death. In volume ten, Morgoth''s Ring, the narrative was taken only as far as the natural dividing point in the work, when Morgoth destroyed the Trees of Light and fled from Valinor bearing the stolen Silmarils. In The War of the Jewels, 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. With the publication in this book of all of J.R.R. Tolkien''s later narrative writing concerned with the last centuries of the First Age, the long history of The Silmarillion, from its beginnings in The Book of Lost Tales, is completed; the enigmatic state of the work at his death can now be understood. A chief element in The War of the Jewels is a major story of Middle-earth, now published for the first time - a continuation of the great "saga" of Turin Turambar and his sister Nienor, the children of Hurin the Steadfast. This is the tale of the disaster that overtook the forest people of Brethil when Hurin came among them after his release from long years of captivity in Angband, the fortress of Morgoth. The uncompleted text of the Grey Annals, the primary record of the War of the Jewels, is given in full; the geography of Beleriand is studied in detail, with redrawings of the final state of the map; and a long essay on the names and relations of all the peoples of Middle-earth shows more clearly than any writing yet published the close connection between the language and history in Tolkien''s world. The text also provides new information, including some knowledge of the divine powers, the Valar.

Morgoth's Ring

release date: Jun 13, 2023
Morgoth's Ring
In Morgoth''s Ring, the tenth volume of The History of Middle-earth and the first of two companion volumes, Christopher Tolkien describes and documents the legends of the Elder Days, as they were evolved and transformed by his father in the years before he completed The Lord of the Rings. The text of the Annals of Aman, the "Blessed Land" in the far West, is given in full. And in writings never before published, we can see the nature of the problems that J.R.R. Tolkien explored in his later years as new and radical ideas, portending upheaval in the heart of the mythology. At this time Tokien sought to redefine the old legends, and wrote of the nature and destiny of Elves, the idea of Elvish rebirth, the origins of the Orcs, and the Fall of Men. His meditation of mortality and immortality as represented in the lives of Men and Elves led to another major writing at this time, the "Debate of Finrod and Andreth," which is reproduced here in full. "Above all," Christopher Tolkien writes in his foreward, "the power and significance of Melkor-Morgoth...was enlarged to become the ground and source of the corruption of Arda." This book indeed is all about Morgoth. Incomparably greater than the power of Sauron, concentrated in the One Ring, Morgoth''s power (Tolkien wrote) was dispersed into the very matter of Arda: "The whole of Middle-earth was Morgoth''s Ring."

Peintures et aquarelles de J.R.R. Tolkien

release date: Jan 01, 2022
Peintures et aquarelles de J.R.R. Tolkien
Cet album de peintures, d''aquarelles et de dessins, réédité quarante ans après sa première édition, confirme l''exceptionnel talent artistique de J.R.R. Tolkien en offrant un aperçu unique de sa vision de nombreux lieux et personnages familiers aux lecteurs du Hobbit, du Seigneur des Anneaux et du Silmarillion. Ces exemples de son art vont des aquarelles délicates dépeignant la Colline, Fendeval ou Smaug, jusqu''à des dessins de la Forêt de la Lothlórien, en passant par des esquisses des portes de la Moria et de Minas Tirith. Ensemble, ces œuvres constituent une collection remarquable des illustrations de J.R.R. Tolkien réalisées pour ses livres les plus populaires. L''ouvrage inclut aussi un grand nombre de ses magnifiques motifs de fleurs et d''arbres, de frises, de tapisseries et d''emblèmes héraldiques associés au monde de la Terre du Milieu. Dans leur variété et leur étendue, ces œuvres montrent toute la richesse de son imagination visuelle. Cette galerie enchanteresse a été sélectionnée par Christopher Tolkien, à qui l''on doit des notes détaillées sur chacune des images réalisées par son père, J.R.R. Tolkien.[éditeur]

Das Buch der verschollenen Geschichten. Teil 2

release date: Jan 01, 2022

Pictures by J. R. R. Tolkien

release date: Nov 11, 2021
Pictures by J. R. R. Tolkien
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.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo

release date: Jul 27, 2021
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo
"First published in Great Britain by George Allen & Unwin (Publishers) Ltd 1975"--Title page verso.

The History of Middle-Earth, Part One

release date: Oct 06, 2020
The History of Middle-Earth, Part One
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.

The History of Middle-Earth Part Three

release date: Oct 06, 2020
The History of Middle-Earth Part Three
This new hardcover edition brings together the final three volumes of The History of Middle-earth--Morgoth''s Ring, The War of the Jewels, and The Peoples of Middle-earth. J.R.R. Tolkien is famous the world over for his unique literary creation, exemplified in The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. What is less well known, however, is that he also produced a vast amount of further material that greatly expands upon the mythology and numerous stories of Middle-earth, and which gives added life to the thousand-year war between the Elves and the evil spirit Morgoth, and his terrifying lieutenant, Sauron. It was to this enormous task of literary construction that Tolkien''s youngest son and literary heir, Christopher, applied himself to produce the monumental and endlessly fascinating series of twelve volumes, The History of Middle-earth.

The Great Tales of Middle-Earth

release date: Oct 23, 2018
The Great Tales of Middle-Earth
The Great Tales of Middle-earth is a beautiful boxed set of the three final novels of Middle-earth: Children of Húrin, Beren and Lúthien, and The Fall of Gondolin, packaged together for the first time. Completing Christopher Tolkien''s lifelong achievement as the editor and curator of his father J.R.R. Tolkien''s manuscripts, The Great Tales features handsome color plates and maps by famed illustrator Alan Lee. The Children of Húrin was the first complete book by J.R.R.Tolkien since the 1977 publication of The Silmarillion. Six thousand years before the One Ring is destroyed, Middle-earth lies under the shadow of the Dark Lord Morgoth. The greatest warriors among elves and men have perished, and all is in darkness and despair. But a deadly new leader rises, Túrin, son of Húrin, and with his grim band of outlaws begins to turn the tide in the war for Middle-earth--awaiting the day he confronts his destiny and the deadly curse laid upon him. Beren and Lúthien 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. 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. The Fall of Gondolin completes the set and tells the story of the destruction of the legendary city of Gondolin at the hands of evil Morgoth in retaliation against Ulmo, the Lord of the Waters, who favors man. At core is the tale of Tuor, cousin of Túrin, his wife, Idril, daughter of Turgon, king of Gondolin, and their child, Eärendel, who became great in Gondolin, but had to flee the blazing wreckage of his home when Morgoth attacked. Each hardcover volume includes color plates and black and white maps by award-winning illustrator Alan Lee.

Beowulf

release date: May 22, 2014
Beowulf
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 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. 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. “Essential for students of the Old English poem—and the ideal gift for devotees of the One Ring.” —Kirkus

The Legend Of Sigurd And Gudrún

release date: Feb 15, 2012
The Legend Of Sigurd And Gudrún
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 Gudrún. In the Lay of the Völsungs is told the ancestry of the great hero Sigurd, the slayer of Fáfnir, most celebrated of dragons; of his awakening of the Valkyrie Brynhild, who slept surrounded by a wall of fire, and of their betrothal; and of his coming to the court of the great princes who were named the Niflungs (or Nibelungs), with whom he entered into blood-brotherhood. In scenes of dramatic intensity, of confusion of identity, thwarted passion, jealousy, and bitter strife, the tragedy of Sigurd and Brynhild, of Gunnar the Niflung and Gudrún his sister, mounts to its end in the murder of Sigurd, the suicide of Brynhild, and the despair of Gudrún. The Lay of Gudrún recounts her fate after the death of Sigurd, her marriage against her will to the mighty Atli, ruler of the Huns (the Attila of history), his murder of her brothers, and her hideous revenge.

The Book of Lost Tales 1 (The History of Middle-earth, Book 1)

release date: Feb 24, 2011
The Book of Lost Tales 1 (The History of Middle-earth, Book 1)
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 Saga of King Heidrek the Wise

release date: Nov 11, 2010

The Peoples of Middle-Earth

release date: Mar 04, 2010
The Peoples of Middle-Earth
''The Peoples of Middle-earth'' traces the evolution of the Appendices to The Lord of The Rings, which provide a comprehensive historical structure of the Second and Third Ages, including Calendars, Hobbit genealogies and the Westron language.

The Shaping of Middle-Earth

release date: Mar 04, 2010
The Shaping of Middle-Earth
This is the fourth volume in ''The History of Middle-Earth'' series that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien''s epic tale of war.

The Lays of Beleriand

release date: Mar 01, 2010
The Lays of Beleriand
This is the third volume in ''The History of Middle-Earth'' series that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien''s epic tale of war, ''The Silmarillion''.

Lettres

release date: Jan 01, 2005
Lettres
J. R. R. Tolkien, créateur de la Terre du Milieu et de l''univers du Seigneur des Anneaux, de Bilbo le Hobbit et du Silmarillion, fut l''auteur de l''une des correspondances les plus prolifiques du XXe siècle. Pendant soixante ans, il écrivit à ses éditeurs, à sa femme et à ses enfants, à ses amis (C. S. Lewis, W. H. Auden, pour les plus célèbres) ainsi qu''aux admirateurs de ses livres. Ces Lettres constituent un portrait fascinant et plein de nuances de l''homme sous toutes ses facettes - comme conteur, père, universitaire à Oxford, croyant et observateur du monde moderne - et relatent la genèse de ses œuvres magistrales. Ce volume éclaire de manière irremplaçable le génie créateur de J. R. R. Tolkien et l''extraordinaire architecture, pensée et prévue dans ses moindres détails, du monde du Seigneur des Anneaux.

The Complete History of Middle-Earth

release date: Oct 01, 2002
The Complete History of Middle-Earth
The complete 12-book History of Middle-earth, printed in three volumes and set in a matching box. J.R.R. Tolkien is famous the world over for his unique literary creation, exemplified in The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. What is less well known, however, is that he also produced a vast amount of further material that greatly expands upon the mythology and numerous stories of Middle-earth, and which gives added life to the thousand-year war between the Elves and the evil spirit Morgoth, and his terrifying lieutenant, Sauron. It was to this enormous task of literary construction that his Tolkien''s youngest son and literary heir, Christopher, applied himself to produce the monumental and endlessly fascinating series of twelve books, The History of Middle-earth. This very special collector''s edition brings together all twelve books into three hardback volumes -- over 5,000 pages of fascinating Tolkien material -- and places them in one matching box.

Los Pueblos de la Tierra Media

release date: Jan 01, 2002
Los Pueblos de la Tierra Media
Cuando J.R.R. Tolkien dejó de lado El Silmarillion en 1937, el desarrollo de la «mitología» de las últimas Edades apenas había comenzado. Fue en los Apéndices de El Señor de los Anillos donde surgió una estructura histórica comprensible y una cronología de la Segunda y Tercera Edad, abarcando todos los hilos que confluirían en La Guerra del Anillo. Es bien conocido el retraso en la publicación de El Retorno del Rey por la dificultad que encontró en redactar esos Apéndices. Pero en Los Pueblos de la Tierra Media Christopher Tolkien demuestra que existía una estructura original en escritos sueltos y en notas que difieren de la versión publicada. En estos textos tempranos se ve la evolución de la estructura cronológica de las últimas Edades, los calendarios, las genealogías de los hobbits y el lenguaje Oestron o Lengua Común.

The History of Middle-Earth Index

release date: Jan 01, 2002
The History of Middle-Earth Index
The History of Middle-earth Index presents the comprehensive indices of all twelve History of Middle-earth volumes in a single, easily referenced edition, serving as an essential complement to this extraordinary work.
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