L'histoire de la terre du milieu n'est pas contenue toute entière dans le seigneur des anneaux.
 D'autres fragments, présentés ici, sont apparus. vous qui entrez dans ce livre enchanté entendez l'appel de la mer qui hante aldarion, explorez l'île de numenor, assistez aux premiers combats contre sauron le maléfique, avant de partir vers le " troisième âge ".

Contes et légendes inachevés - tome 2 Deuxième âge

Return of the Shadow

Des milliers d'années avant les événements relatés dans Le Seigneur des Anneaux, la Terre du Milieu est en proie aux luttes entre Morgoth, le premier Seigneur Ténébreux, et les Elfes, alliés aux Hommes. C'est contre Túrin et Niënor, les enfants de Húrin, que Morgoth lance une terrible malédiction, les contraignant à une vie errante, pour se venger du héros qui a osé le défier.
 Túrin, qui cherche sa place parmi les Elfes et les Hommes dans un monde en guerre, lutte de manière spectaculaire et tragique contre Morgoth, nous faisant découvrir un passé méconnu de la Terre du Milieu.

Les enfants de Hurin

This enhanced ebook of Tolkien's timeless classic brings together all the original handwritten letters, some never before published, with Tolkien's original colour illustrations and audio recordings of every letter read by Sir Derek Jacobi and a full cast.

 Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J. R. R. Tolkien's children. Inside would be a letter in strange spidery handwriting and a beautiful coloured drawing or some sketches. The letters were from Father Christmas.

 They told wonderful tales of life at the North Pole: how all the reindeer got loose and scattered presents all over the place; how the accident-prone Polar Bear climbed the North Pole and fell through the roof of Father Christmas's house into the dining-room; how he broke the Moon into four pieces and made the Man in it fall into the back garden; how there were wars with the troublesome horde of goblins who lived in the caves beneath the house!

 Sometimes the Polar Bear would scrawl a note, and sometimes Ilbereth the Elf would write in his elegant flowing script, adding yet more life and humour to the stories. No reader, young or old, can fail to be charmed by the inventiveness and 'authenticity' of Tolkien's Letters from Father Christmas.

 This enhanced ebook version of the letters brings Tolkien's creation alive, providing readers with a truly engrossing multimedia experience.

Letters from Father Christmas

Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts, this is the first complete, standalone Middle-earth book by J.R.R. Tolkien since The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

The children of hurin

Immerse yourself in Middle-earth with Tolkien''s classic masterpiece, telling the complete story of Bilbo Baggins and the Hobbits'' epic encounters with Gandalf, Gollum, dragons and monsters, in the quest to destroy the One Ring.  When they were first published, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings became instant classics. Treasured by readers young and old, these works of sweeping fantasy, steeped in unrivalled magic and otherworldliness have sold more than 150 million copies around the world.  This new boxed set, published to mark the 75th anniversary of the publication of The Hobbit, offers readers a new opportunity to discover Tolkien''s remarkable world of Middle-earth and to follow the complete story of Bilbo Baggins and the Hobbits'' part in the epic quest for the Ring - beginning with Bilbo''s fateful visit from Gandalf and culminating in the dramatic climax between Frodo and Gollum atop Mount Doom and Bilbo''s departure to the Grey Havens.

The hobbit & the lord of the rings boxed set

For the first time ever, a very special edition of the forerunner to  The Lord of the Rings , illustrated throughout in colour by J.R.R. Tolkien himself and with the complete text printed in two colours. The Silmarilli were three perfect jewels, fashioned by Feanor, most gifted of the Elves, and within them was imprisoned the last Light of the Two Trees of Valinor. But the first Dark Lord, Morgoth, stole the jewels and set them within his iron crown, 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 the heroism, against the great Enemy. It 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 book also includes several shorter works: the  Ainulindale , a myth of the Creation, and the  Valaquenta , in which the nature and powers of each of the gods is described. The  Akallabeth  recounts the downfall of the great island kingdom of Numenor at the end of the Second Age, and  Of the Rings of Power  tells of the great events at the end of the Third Age, as narrated in  The Lord of the Rings . 
           Tolkien could not publish  The Silmarillion  in his lifetime, as it grew with him, so he would leave it to his son, Christopher Tolkien, to edit the work from many manuscripts and bring his father''s great vision to publishable form, so completing the literary achievement of a lifetime. This special edition presents anew this seminal first step towards mapping out the posthumous publishing of Middle-earth, and the beginning of an illustrious forty years and more than twenty books celebrating his father''s legacy. 
           This definitive new edition includes, by way of an introduction, a letter written by Tolkien in 1951 which provides a brilliant exposition of the earlier Ages, and for the first time in its history is presented with J.R.R. Tolkien''s own paintings and drawings, which reveal the breathtaking grandeur and beauty of his vision of the First Age of Middle-earth.

THE SILMARILLION - ILLUSTRATED EDITION

La popularité de J. R. R Tolkien repose aujourd'hui principalement sur la création de la Terre du Milieu et sur son oeuvre majeure, Le Seigneur des Anneaux. Cependant, l'homme et son travail sont composés d'une multitude de facettes. J. R. R Tolkien était avant tout un spécialiste du Vieil et du Moyen Anglais internationalement respecté. Philologue de profession et par nature, il n'a pas seulement étudié les langues, il a créé la sienne. Auteur visionnaire, il a su inventer un autre monde, le remplissant de langues, d'alphabets, de personnages, de créatures, de mythes et de légendes. Artiste talentueux, il a illustré ses propres oeuvres.
Trésors de Tolkien est un court texte contenant une soixantaine d'illustrations.

Trésors de Tolkien

Tolkien's famous translations and lectures on the story of two fifth-century heroes in northern Europe.

 Professor J. R. R. Tolkien is most widely known as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but he was also a distinguished scholar in the field of Mediaeval English language and literature. His most significant contribution to Anglo-Saxon studies is to be found in his lectures on Finn and Hengest (pronounced Hen-jist), two fifth-century heroes in northern Europe.

 The story is told in two Old English poems, Beowulf and The Fights at Finnesburg, but told so obscurely and allusively that its interpretation had been a matter of controversy for over 100 years. Bringing his unique combination of philological erudition and poetic imagination to the task, however, Tolkien revealed a classic tragedy of divided loyalties, of vengeance, blood and death.

 Tolkien's original and persuasive solution of the many problems raised by the story ranged widely through the early history and legend of the Germanic peoples. The story has the added attraction that it describes the events immediately preceding the first Germanic invasion of Britain which was led by Hengest himself.

 This book will be of interest not only to students of Old English and all those interested in the history of northern Europe and Anglo-Saxon England, but also admirers of The Lord of the Rings who will be fascinated to see how Tolkien handled a story which he did not invent.

Contes et légendes inachevés - tome 2 Deuxième âge

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