Fantasy4 new, illustrated editions of Tolkien's phenomenally popular Middle Earth series. Each features paintings and drawings by the Oscar winning designer Alan Lee, and they tie in with paperback publication of The Children Of Hurin.

Two Towers

In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin 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. Deeply opposed to Morgoth is Ulmo, second in might only to Manwe, chief of the Valar.  Central 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.   Into this world comes Tuor, cousin of Turin, 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 Earendel, whose birth and profound importance in days to come is foreseen by Ulmo.   At 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 Tuor and Idril, with the child Earendel, 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 Earendel, which Tolkien never wrote, but which is sketched out in this book from other sources.  Following his presentation of Beren and Luthien Christopher Tolkien has used the same ''history in sequence'' mode in the writing of this edition of The Fall of Gondolin. In the words of J.R.R. Tolkien, it was ''the first real story of this imaginary world'' and, together with Beren and Luthien and The Children of Hurin, he regarded it as one of the three ''Great Tales'' of the Elder Days.

The fall of gondolin

Le Retour du Roi, dernière partie du Seigneur des Anneaux voit s'achever la quête de Frodo. Toujours accompagné de Sam et Gollum, sa traversée du Mordor pour atteindre la montagne du Destin est plus périlleuse que jamais. Tandis que Gandalf affronte Sauron dans une lutte sans merci, c'est une guerre dévastatrice qui a lieu au pied de Minas Tirith, assiégée par des armées d'orques et de trolls. Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, Merry et Pippin combattent avec l'énergie du désespoir pour défendre la cité blanche, et avec elle la Terre du milieu toute entière, face à l'invasion des forces des ténèbres.Chef d'oeuvre de la fantasy, Le Seigneur des Anneaux est sans équivalent par sa puissance d'évocation, son souffle et son ampleur.
Ce troisième volume du Seigneur des Anneaux comporte deux appendices issus de l'édition originale : l'appendice A, qui dresse les annales des rois et dirigeants, et l'appendice F, qui aborde la langue des peuples du Troisième Âge. Cette nouvelle traduction (2016) prend en compte la dernière version du texte anglais, les indications laissées par Tolkien à l'intention des traducteurs et les découvertes permises par les publications posthumes proposées par Christopher Tolkien.

Thierry Janssen met à nouveau son talent au service de la langue de Tolkien, en livrant une lecture juste et incarnée. La magie opère et vous fait voyager au coeur d'un des plus grands chefs-d'oeuvre de la littérature moderne.

Le seigneur des anneaux Tome 3 : le retour du roi

Poemes de "le seigneur des anneaux"

Four-volume paperback boxed set containing J.R.R. Tolkien's classic masterpiece, together with 'The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion', an annotated guide to all three parts.

The lord of the rings: coffret 4 vol. (50th anniversary) - the lord of the rings + a reader's companion

Cette nouvelle édition de faërie, établie par vincent ferré, contient - outre " du conte de fées ", oú tolkien expose sa conception du merveilleux, lestrois nouvelles" feuille, de niggle ", " le fermier gilles de ham " et " smith de grand wooton " ainsi qu'une introduction de christopher tolkien - des textes de j.
R. r.  tolkien réunis pour la première fois : " le retour de beorhtnoth ", dialogue (encore inédit en français) sur la guerre et l'héroïsme, dans la lignée de la poésie anglaise médiévale, accompagné de réflexions de tolkien qui font écho au seigneur des anneaux ; " mythopoeia ", véritable art poétique et texte fondamental pour comprendre tolkien ; enfin, une traduction révisée des aventures de tom bombadil (accompagnée du texte anglais), précédée d'une importance introduction de j.
 R.  r.  tolkien, qui intègre ce recueil dans le cycle de la terre du milieu.

Faërie et autres textes

'The Two Towers' is the second part of JRR Tolkien's epic masterpiece 'The Lord of the Rings'. This 50th anniversary edition features special packaging and includes the definitive edition of the text.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ; 50th Anniversary Edition

The concluding volume of The History of Middle-earth series, which examines the Appendices to The Lord of the Rings.

THE PEOPLES OF MIDDLE-EARTH - HISTORY OF MIDDLE-EARTH V.12

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 Hurin 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 Turin and his sister Nienor will be tragically entwined.  Their brief and passionate lives are dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bears them as the children of Hurin, 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 Hurin.  Begun by J.R.R. Tolkien at the end of the First World War, The Children of Hurin 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.

Two Towers

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