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To celebrate the 30th anniversary of first publication, a new de luxe edition of The Silmarillion, featuring the revised, reset text, a colour frontispiece illustration, bound in special materials and presented in a matching slipcase.  The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien''s world. 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 tales of The Silmarillion are set in an age when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle-earth, and the High Elves made war upon him for the recovery of the Silmarils, the jewels containing the pure light of Valinor.  Included in the book are several shorter works. The Ainulindale is a myth of the Creation and in the Valaquenta 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.  For the first time, we are publishing a deluxe edition of this pivotal work, featuring the revised, corrected text and including, by way of an introduction, a fascinating letter written by Tolkien in 1951 in which he gives a full explanation of how he conceived the early Ages of Middle-earth. Quarter-bound, and set in a matching slipcase, this attractive edition will prove a fine addition to any Tolkien collection.

THE SILMARILLION - DELUXE EDITION

Voici l'histoire des temps rêvés par le premier etre avant le commencement des ages, des temps créés par le premier etre à partir de l'eveil des dieux et des 37 000 années qui s'ensuivirent.
 Un voyageur venu d'orient navigua jusqu'à l'ile solitaire où les elfes lui contèrent ces contes, la tradition s'en est maintenue jusqu'à nos jours, ou peu s'en faut. comment les valar chantèrent le monde ; comment s'éveillèrent les nains, puis les elfes, puis les hommes ; comment furent allumées les lampes, les deux arbres, les trois silmarils et finalement le soleil et la lune, lumière des trois ages ; comment le traître cosmique, melke -dit melkor, dit morgoth - se rebella, et les liens qui l'enchaînèrent ; comment valinor fut construit par l'action des valar, puis assombri ; comment s'enfuirent les noldoli, qu'on appela depuis les noldor ; toutes ces histoires, et beaucoup d'autres, ont été couchées sur le manuscrit.
 Ouvrez-le avec précaution ; soufflez d'une haleine légère toute la poussière amassée sur les pages ; mettez votre jeune doigt sur ces vieilles lettres et lisez.

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Painstakingly restored from Tolkien''s manuscripts and presented for the first time as a continuous and standalone story, the epic tale of  Beren and Luthien  will reunite fans of  The Hobbit  and  The Lord of the Rings  with Elves and Men, Dwarves and Orcs and the rich landscape and creatures unique to Tolkien''s Middle-earth.   The tale of Beren and Luthien 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. Returning from France and the battle of the Somme at the end of 1916, he wrote the tale in the following year.  Essential to the story, and never changed, is the fate that shadowed the love of Beren and Luthien: for Beren was a mortal man, but Luthien 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 Luthien. This is the kernel of the legend; and it leads to the supremely heroic attempt of Beren and Luthien together to rob the greatest of all evil beings, Melkor, called Morgoth, the Black Enemy, of a Silmaril.  In this book Christopher Tolkien has attempted to extract the story of Beren and Luthien 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. Presented together for the first time, they reveal aspects of the story, both in event and in narrative immediacy, that were afterwards lost.

BEREN AND LUTHIEN

Le seigneur des anneaux

The third part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, an enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes and includes the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety.  The War of the Ring takes up the story of The Lord of the Rings 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.  The book is illustrated with plans and drawings of the changing conceptions of Orthanc, Dunharrow, Minas Tirith and the tunnels of Shelob''s Lair.  This series of fascinating books has now been repackaged to complement the distinctive and classic style of the ''black cover'' A-format paperbacks of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales.

THE WAR OF THE RING - HISTORY OF MIDDLE-EARTH V.8

Le seigneur des anneaux : coffret Tomes 1 à 3

The fourth volume that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, The Silmarillion.

The Shaping of Middle Earth

The first part of J. R. R. Tolkien's epic adventureTHE LORD OF THE RINGS

 'A most remarkable feat'Guardian

 In a sleepy village in the Shire, a young hobbit is entrusted with an immense task. He must make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ruling Ring of Power - the only thing that prevents the Dark Lord Sauron's evil dominion.

 Thus begins J. R. R. Tolkien's classic tale of adventure, which continues in The Two Towers and The Return of the King.

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