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Bilbo le Hobbit

La Formation de la Terre du Milieu se situe dans la continuité des Contes perdus et des Lais du Beleriand. Dans ce volume, on trouvera deux versions « authentiques » du Silmarillion – L'Esquisse de la Mythologie et la Quenta, qui racontent la création du monde, l'apparition des dieux et des Elfes, les premières batailles et l'histoire de grands héros comme Túrin –, mais aussi des cartes complétées par une étonnante description du monde de Tolkien (l'Ambarkanta), des chronologies et des textes historiques, les fameuses Annales du Valinor et du Beleriand.

La Formation de la Terre du Milieu

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind themIn ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.From Sauron's fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, his power spread far and wide. Sauron gathered all the Great Rings to him, but always he searched for the One Ring that would complete his dominion.When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first birthday he disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom.The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard; the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam; Gimli the Dwarf; Legolas the Elf; Boromir of Gondor; and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.

Le Seigneur des Anneaux

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 whose origins stretch back to a time long before THE HOBBIT.Tolkien considered THE SILMARILLION his most important work, and, though it was published last and posthumously, this great collection of tales and legends clearly sets the stage for all his other writing. The story of the creation of the world and of the the First Age, this is the ancient drama to which the characters in THE LORD OF THE RINGS look back and in whose events some of them, such as Elrond and Galadriel, took part. The three Silmarils were jewels created by Feanor, most gifted of the Elves. Within them was imprisoned the Light of the Two Trees of Valinor before the Trees themselves were destroyed by Morgoth, the first Dark Lord. Thereafter, the unsullied Light of Valinor lived on only in the Silmarils, but they were seized by Morgoth and set in his crown, which was guarded in the impenetrable fortress of Angband in the north of Middle-earth. THE SILMARILLION is the history of the rebellion of Feanor and his kindred against the gods, their exile from Valinor and return to Middle-earth, and their war, hopeless despite all their heroism, against the great Enemy.This second edition features a letter written by J.R.R. Tolkien describing his intentions for the book, which serves as a brilliant exposition of his conception of the earlier Ages of Middle-earth.

Le Silmarillion

D'années en années, le culte jaloux qui entourait le Seigneur des Anneaux à sa publication dans les années 50 s'est transformé en succès universel. Les Hobbits, ce peuple effacé mais très ancien qui vivait quelque part au nord-ouest de l'Ancien Monde, nous sont devenus aussi familiers que les héros des contes de fées ou ceux des grandes épopées, avec Bilbo, Gandalf, Bombadil ou Galadriel, et tous les habitants de la Terre du Milieu.Magistralement restitués par son fils après la mort de J.R.R. Tolkien, les Contes et légendes inachevées du Troisième Âge prolongent et élargissent l'Œuvre de l'inépuisable conteur.

Contes et Légendes Inachevées du Second Age

Many years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version, now published for the first time, of the great legend of Northern antiquity, in two closely related poems to which he gave the titles The New Lay of the Völsungs and The New Lay of Gudrún.In the "Lay of the Völsungs" is told the ancestry of the great hero Sigurd, the slayer of Fáfnir most celebrated of dragons, whose treasure he took for his own; 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 that court there sprang great love but also great hate, brought about by the power of the enchantress of the Niflungs, skilled in the arts of magic, of shape-changing and potions of forgetfulness.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 at the hands of his blood-brothers, the suicide of Brynhild, and the despair of Gudrún. In the "Lay of Gudrún" her fate after the death of Sigurd is told, her marriage against her will to the mighty Atli, ruler of the Huns (the Attila of history), his murder of her brothers the Niflung lords, and her hideous revenge.Deriving his version primarily from his close study of the ancient poetry of Norway and Iceland known as the Poetic Edda (and where no old poetry exists, from the later prose work Völsunga Saga), J.R.R. Tolkien employed a verse-form of short stanzas whose lines embody in English the exacting alliterative rhythms and the concentrated energy of the poems of the Edda.

La Légende de Sigurd et Gudrún

With 10 pages of stickers plus lots of stunning activities, this amazing book is a great companion to the exciting new movie, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.This book is filled with information on all of the main characters - good and evil - plus puzzles, quizzes and more. With colourful images and over 100 reusable stickers from Bilbo to Gandalf, Orc to Goblin - you’ll find them all here!

Le Hobbit: La Désolation de Smaug - Le cahier d'activités et de stickers

J. R. R. Tolkien's writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one volume.

 J. R. R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a 'dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told'. And for many years readers would need to be content with the tantalizing glimpses of it found within the pages of The Lord of the Rings and its appendices, including the forging of the Rings of Power, the building of the Barad-dûr and the rise of Sauron.

 It was not until Christopher Tolkien published The Silmarillion after his father's death that a fuller story could be told. Although much of the book's content concerned the First Age of Middle-earth, there were at its close two key works that revealed the tumultuous events concerning the rise and fall of the island of Númenor. Raised out of the Great Sea and gifted to the Men of Middle-earth as a reward for aiding the angelic Valar and the Elves in the defeat and capture of the Dark Lord Morgoth, the kingdom became a seat of influence and wealth; but as the Númenóreans' power increased, the seed of their downfall would inevitably be sown, culminating in the Last Alliance of Elves and Men.

 Even greater insight into the Second Age would be revealed in subsequent publications, first in Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth, then expanded upon in Christopher Tolkien's magisterial twelve-volume The History of Middle-earth, in which he presented and discussed a wealth of further tales written by his father, many in draft form.

 Now, adhering to the timeline of 'The Tale of Years' in the appendices to The Lord of the Rings, editor Brian Sibley has assembled into one comprehensive volume a new chronicle of the Second Age of Middle-earth, told substantially in the words of J. R. R. Tolkien from the various published texts, with new illustrations in watercolour and pencil by the doyen of Tolkien art, Alan Lee.

The Fall of Númenor - and Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-earth

Oyez, bonnes gens, oyez la très véridique histoire de l'Anneau de Puissance forgé naguère par Sauron le Grand. Un homme eut le courage de lui arracher le talisman et put ainsi le chasser hors du monde. Le Maître Anneau se perdit. Qui sait ? Peut-être a-t-il fait le malheur de ceux qui l'ont pris ? Mais la Terre du Milieu s'enfonce dans la nuit, les créatures mauvaises se multiplient et, dans les Monts Brumeux, les Orques traquent les Nains. L'Ennemi est de retour ! Avec l'Anneau Unique, il aurait le moyen d'abattre toute résistance. Par chance, j'ai compris le premier qu'il est ici. Mais Sauron le fait chercher partout. Déjà ses Cavaliers Noirs galopent sur la terre des Hobbits. L'Anneau lui-même désire revenir à son maître. Ta seule chance, c'est que tu ne l'as pas mis au doigt. Mais le temps presse. Bientôt il le trouvera et il recouvrira toutes les terres de ténèbres. Il faut détruire cet Anneau, petit Frodon ! Il le faut !

Bilbo le Hobbit

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