The Lord of the Rings - Box Set

Four-volume boxed-set edition of The Lord of the Rings in hardback, featuring Tolkien?s original unused dust-jacket designs, together with fourth hardback volume, The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion. Includes special features and the definitive edition of the text. Since it was first published in 1954, The Lord of the Rings has been a book people have treasured. Steeped in unrivalled magic and otherworldliness, its sweeping fantasy has touched the hearts of young and old alike, with one hundred and fifty million copies of its many editions sold around the world. In 2005 Tolkien?s text was fully restored ? with the full co-operation of Christopher Tolkien ? with almost 400 corrections, the original red and black maps as fold-out sheets, a fully revised and enlarged index, and for the first time a special plate section containing the pages from the Book of Mazarbul, making this set as close as possible to the version that J.R.R. Tolkien intended. This Diamond Anniversary reissue of the prized boxed set marks 60 years since the first publication of The Fellowship of the Ring. These hardback editions feature Tolkien?s original unused dust-jacket designs from the 1950s, reworked for this edition, and some additional text corrections. The four-volume boxed set includes The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, a unique annotated guide to the text, fully updated since its first publication in 2005, and is a book which will enhance the reader's enjoyment and understanding of one of the most influential books of the 20th century.

World first publication of a previously unknown short satirical fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by his son, Christopher Tolkien, and accompanied by illustrations from the author together with an essay, The Origin of Bovadium, by Richard Ovenden OBE. As Christopher Tolkien notes in his Introduction, The Bovadium Fragments was a ?satirical fantasy? written by his father, which grew out of a planning controversy that erupted in Oxford in the late 1940s, when J.R.R. Tolkien was the Merton Professor of English Language and Literature. Written initially for his own amusement, Tolkien?s tale was a private academic jest that poked gentle fun at such things as 'the pomposities of archaeologists' and 'the hideousness of college crockery'. However, it was at the same time expressing a barbed cri de coeur against the inexorable rise of motor transport and 'machine-worship' that was overwhelming the tranquillity of his beloved city. Enriched by a selection of illustrations by the author, and enhanced by Christopher Tolkien's notes and commentary, readers can enjoy at last this tale of an imagined Oxford viewed through the lens of future (and not wholly reliable) academic study. Richard Ovenden's accompanying essay paints a vivid portrait of Oxford during that time. He also provides rich background to the casus belli which led to the furore that Tolkien witnessed first-hand, as the embers of debate between town planners and the university colleges were fanned into flame. Playful, erudite, and ultimately tragically moving, The Bovadium Fragments is like nothing else that J.R.R. Tolkien wrote, and its themes remain both provocative and timely. Within its lines may be found a concern for the fragility of our natural world, a love of which that was shared by both father and son. As Christopher Tolkien?s final presentation of his father?s work, it is therefore perhaps fitting that The Bovadium Fragments should be their coda.

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Avec ce troisième volume, L'histoire de la Terre du Milieu parvient à un moment crucial de la création de la mythologie de J.R.R. Tolkien. Le lecteur découvrira ici des poèmes essentiels, qui rapportent les histoires de Túrin et de Lúthien, deux héros centraux du Silmarillion et des Contes Perdus. Le Lai des entants de Húrin raconte la vie tragique de Túrin Turambar : le Lai de Leithian (présenté ici en édition bilingue) décrit la quête du Silmaril par Beren et Lúthien et leur face a face avec Morgoth. Ce volume comporte également un texte de C.S. Lewis sur le Lai de Leithian et des poèmes fragmentaires (Fuite des Noldoli, Lai d'Eärendel et Lai de la Chute de Gondolin). Les commentaires de Christopher Tolkien décrivent l'évolution de l'Histoire des Jours Anciens, qui forment le décor du Seigneur des Anneaux.