In the first part of Sauron Defeated, Christopher Tolkien completes his account of the writing of The Lord of the Rings, beginning with Sam's rescue of Frodo from the Tower of Kirith Ungol, and giving a very different account of the Scouring of the Shire. This part ends with versions of the previous[...]

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När hobbiten Bilbo en dag får besök av trollkarlen Gandalf och tretton dvärgar, ställs hans fridfulla liv på huvudet. Han blir övertalad att hjälpa till att återfinna dvärgarnas stulna skatt. Många faror möter dem innan Bilbo står öga mot öga med skatten[...]

Kaunis tarina kertoo sepästä, joka pääsee vierailemaan haltioiden asuttamassa Satumaassa.

Throughout this vast and intricate mythology, says Publishers Weekly, "one marvels anew at the depth, breadth, and persistence of J.R.R. Tolkien's labor. No one sympathetic to his aims, the invention of a secondary universe, will want to miss this chance to be present at the creation." In this capst[...]

A great modern classic and the prelude to THE LORD OF THE RINGS

Smaug certainly looked fast asleep, when Bilbo peeped once more from the entrance. He was just about to step out onto the floor when he caught a sudden thin and piercing ray of red from under the drooping lid of Smaug's l[...]

Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.[...]

Kuninkaan paluu : osa 2/2

Taru sormusten herrasta. Kuninkaan paluu osa 2/2.

Taru Sormusten Herrasta on kaikenikäisten klassikko, tulvillaan seikkailua, jännitystä ja huumoria. Tolkienin eepos sijoittuu omaan maailmaansa Keski-Maahan ja sen romanttiseen muinaisuuteen,[...]

This is the prelude to "The Lord of the Rings". Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep to take him on an adventure.[...]

"Majestic!...readers of THE HOBBIT and THE LORD OF THE RINGS...will find THE SILMARILLION a cosmology to call their own...medieval romances, fierce fairy tales and fiercer wars that ring with heraldic fury...it overwhelms the reader."

TIME

Those interested in J.R.R. Tolkien's [...]

THE BOOK OF LOST TALES, I, stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor. Here is the whole, glorious history of Middle-earth that J.R.R. Tolkien brought to mythic and dramatic life with his classic fantasy novels of the Ring Cycle.[...]

THE HISTORY OF MIDDLE-EARTH

Poems and prose, maps and chronologies, detours and diversions along the road to Middle-earth . . . Christopher Tolkien has gathered archival materials that his late father, J. R. R. Tolkien, used to create the world and the history behind his classic stories.<[...]

The Book of Lost Tales was the first major work of imagination by J.R.R. Tolkien, begun in 1916-17 when he was twenty-five years old and left incomplete several years later. It stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor, for these tales were the first form of the my[...]