Sauron Defeated

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

J. R. R. Tolkien consacrait son temps à écrire. Créateur de la Terre du Milieu, d'un univers singulier, il est aussi l'auteur d'une des plus prolifiques correspondances du XXe siècle. Pendant soixante ans, il a écrit à ses enfants, à son éditeur, à ses amis, à sa femme, ainsi qu'aux admirateurs de ses livres... Ces Lettres forment un recueil qui met en lumière le génie de cet écrivain et l'incroyable architecture de ses créations littéraires.

Lettres

Le seigneur des anneaux : coffret Tomes 1 à 3

Roverandom

Dans un magnifique poème de mille vers, J.R.R. Tolkien propose une version sombre de l'histoire du roi Arthur, roi guerrier et conquérant : à la fidélité de Gauvain répond la trahison de Mordret, envoûté par une Guenièvre énigmatique, elle-même objet de passion pour un Lancelot tourmenté.

Christopher Tolkien éclaire ensuite ce texte, qui est longtemps resté un mystère, en montrant comme il dialogue avec les versions médiévales anglaises et françaises de la légende arthurienne, mais aussi avec le monde du Silmarillion.
Bien qu'incomplet, le poème, présenté ici dans une forme achevée, mais aussi dans son évolution, marquera le lecteur par sa force, sa dimension tragique, et les liens qu'il suscite avec l'univers inventé par Tolkien.

La chute d'Arthur

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 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 book concludes with two unique abandoned stories: The New Shadow, set in Gondor during the Fourth Age, and the tale of Tal-elmar, in which the coming of the dreaded Numenorean ships is seen through the eyes of men of Middle-earth in the Dark Years.

 With the publication of this book, the long history of J. R. R. Tolkien's creation is completed and the enigmatic state of his work can be understood.

The Peoples of Middle-earth

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

First ever critical study of Tolkien's little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martin's Game of Thrones.

 J. R. R. Tolkien's linguistic invention was a fundamental part of his artistic output, to the extent that later on in life he attributed the existence of his mythology to the desire to give his languages a home and peoples to speak them. As Tolkien puts it in 'A Secret Vice', 'the making of language and mythology are related functions'.

 In the 1930s, Tolkien composed and delivered two lectures, in which he explored these two key elements of his sub-creative methodology. The second of these, the seminal Andrew Lang Lecture for 1938-9, 'On Fairy-Stories', which he delivered at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, is well known. But many years before, in 1931, Tolkien gave a talk to a literary society entitled 'A Hobby for the Home', where he unveiled for the first time to a listening public the art that he had both himself encountered and been involved with since his earliest childhood: 'the construction of imaginary languages in full or outline for amusement'.

 This talk would be edited by Christopher Tolkien for inclusion as 'A Secret Vice' in The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays and serves as the principal exposition of Tolkien's art of inventing languages. This new critical edition, which includes previously unpublished notes and drafts by Tolkien connected with the essay, including his 'Essay on Phonetic Symbolism', goes some way towards re-opening the debate on the importance of linguistic invention in Tolkien's mythology and the role of imaginary languages in fantasy literature.

Sauron Defeated

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