Последние издания книг Джона Р. Р. Толкина

D'année en année, le culte jaloux qui entourait Le Seigneur des Anneaux à sa publication dans les années 1950 s'est transformé en succès universel. Les Hobbits, ce « peuple effacé mais très ancien » qui vivait quelque part au nord-ouest de l'Ancien Monde, nous sont devenus aussi familiers que les héros des contes de fées ou ceux des grandes épopées, avec Bilbo, Gandalf, Bombadil ou Galadriel et tous les habitants de la Terre du Milieu.
Magistralement restitués par son fils après la mort de J.R.R. Tolkien, les Contes et Légendes inachevés du Second Âge prolongent et élargissent l'œuvre de l'inépuisable conteur.

D'année en année, le culte jaloux qui entourait Le Seigneur des Anneaux à sa publication dans les années 50 s'est transformé en succès universel. Les Hobbits, ce "peuple effacé mais très ancien" qui vivait quelque part au nord-ouest de l'Ancien Monde, nous sont devenus aussi familiers que les héros des contes de fées ou ceux des grandes épopées, avec Bilbo, Gandalf, Bombadil ou Galadriel et tous les habitants de la Terre du Milieu.
Magistralement restitué par son fils après la mort de J.R.R. Tolkien, Le Troisième Age des Contes et Légendes inachevés prolonge et élargit l'oeuvre de l'inépuisable conteur. L'essentiel de l'oeuvre de J.R.R. Tolkien figure au catalogue Pocket.

Voici l'histoire des Temps rêvés et des Temps créés par le Premier Être ainsi que des 37 000 années qui s'ensuivirent. Un voyageur venu d'Orient navigua jusqu'à l'Île Solitaire où les Elfes lui narrèrent ces contes. Comment s'éveillèrent les Nains, les Elfes, puis les Hommes ; comment furent allumés les Lampes, les deux Arbres, les trois Silmarils et finalement le Soleil et la Lune ; comment le traître cosmique, Melke – dit Melkor, dit Morgoth –, se rebella, et les liens qui l'enchaînèrent... Toutes ces histoires, et bien d'autres, ont été couchées sur le manuscrit.
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Au milieu des années 1950, un professeur d'Oxford à l'imagination inépuisable créait une épopée fabuleuse qui allait devenir l'objet d'un culte jaloux pour toute une génération de lycéens anglais. Aujourd'hui, les lecteurs du Seigneur des Anneaux se comptent par millions, mais ces adeptes des Hobbits et de leur pays des merveilles continuent à se comporter comme une secte secrète ou une maçonnerie d'initiés. Afin de faciliter l'accès des plus jeunes à son royaume fantastique, J.R.R. Tolkien publia des récits comme Les Aventures de Tom Bombadil, le joyeux drille, qui prolongent l'enchantement des comptines enfantines.

L'Anneau de Pouvoir, forgé par Sauron au cœur de la Montagne du Feu, dépositaire de son sombre pouvoir, est perdu. Nul ne sait ce qu'il est devenu depuis qu'un homme l'a arraché de la main du Seigneur Sombre et, ainsi, put chasser ce dernier hors du monde.
Mais de noirs présages s'étendent à nouveau sur la Terre du Milieu, les créatures maléfiques se multiplient et, dans les Montagnes de Brume, les Orques traquent les Nains. L'ennemi veut récupérer son bien, son Maître le cherche partout et l’œil de Sauron est désormais pointé sur le Comté.
Heureusement Gandalf le Gris les a devancés, s'ils font vite, lui et le petit Frodo parviendront peut-être à détruire l'Anneau à temps...

В книге "Природа Средиземья" представлены интереснейшие черновые материалы по истории Арды, прежде неизвестные широкой публике: подробные математические расчеты темпов взросления и старения у людей и эльфов, рассуждения на такие фундаментальные темы как судьба и свободная воля, тело и дух, первоматерия и первоимпульс; подробные сведения о земле, флоре и фауне Нуменора; ответы на множество вопросов, которыми задавался Дж.Р.Р. Толкин, создавая свой многоплановый Легендариум.

«Письма Рождественского Деда» — сказка, которую Толкин рассказывал своим детям на протяжении более двадцати лет (первое письмо написано старшему сыну в 1920 году и последнее — дочери в 1943). Письма приходили на Рождество, и дети на них отвечали. Рождественский Дед описывал свой дом, друзей и помощников, события, забавные, а порой тревожные, которые случались на Северном полюсе.

In one volume for the first time, this revised and updated examination of how J.R.R.Tolkien came to write his original masterpiece The Hobbit includes his complete unpublished draft version of the story, together with notes and illustrations by Tolkien himself.
The Hobbit was first published on 21 September 1937. Like its sequel, The Lord of the Rings, it is a story that ‘grew in the telling’, and many characters and plot threads in the published text are quite different from the story J.R.R. Tolkien first wrote to read aloud to his young sons as one of their ‘fireside reads’.
Together in one volume, The History of the Hobbit presents the complete text of the unpublished manuscript of The Hobbit, accompanied by John Rateliff’s lively and informative account of how the book came to be written and published. Recording the numerous changes made to the story both before and after publication, he examines – chapter by chapter – why those changes were made and how they reflect Tolkien’s ever-growing concept of Middle-earth.
As well as reproducing the original version of one of the world’s most popular novels – both on its own merits and as the foundation for The Lord of the Rings– this book includes many little-known illustrations and draft maps for The Hobbit by Tolkien himself. Also featured are extensive commentaries on the dates of composition, how Tolkien’s professional and early mythological writings influenced the story, the imaginary geography he created, and how Tolkien came to revise the book years after publication to accommodate events in The Lord of the Rings.
Endorsed by Christopher Tolkien as a companion to his essential 12-volume The History of Middle-earth, this thoughtful and exhaustive examination of one of the most treasured stories in English literature offers fascinating new insights for those who have grown up with this enchanting tale, and will delight any who are about to enter Bilbo’s round door for the first time.

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 official Tolkien calendar, this year containing 13 stunning paintings inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s THE FALL OF NUMENOR. Featuring breathtaking artwork by Alan Lee, with two new pieces unique to this calendar.
The official Tolkien calendar has become an established publishing event, eagerly anticipated by Tolkien fans the world over. Previous Tolkien calendars have become much sought after collector’s items, and this year’s will doubtless be an essential purchase for Middle-earth fans everywhere.
This year’s calendar features 13 full-colour paintings of scenes from across the Second Age of Middle-earth. Famously described by Tolkien as a ‘dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told’, for many years readers would need to be content with the tantalizing glimpses of it found within the pages of The Lord of the Rings and its appendices, including the forging of the Rings of Power, the building of the Barad-dur and the rise of Sauron. Now presented for the first time in calendar form, with two new paintings from the doyen of Tolkien art, Alan Lee, and with an insightful introduction by Brian Sibley, Tolkien fans can discover the Second Age in greater depth than ever before.

This elegant deluxe slipcased edition of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour, features a beautifully decorated text and includes as a bonus the complete text of Tolkien’s acclaimed lecture on Sir Gawain.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. Sir Gawain is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults, full of life and colour; but it is also much more than this, being at the same time a powerful moral tale which examines religious and social values.
Pearl is apparently an elegy on the death of a child, a poem pervaded with a sense of great personal loss: but, like Gawain it is also a sophisticated and moving debate on much less tangible matters.
Sir Orfeo is a slighter romance, belonging to an earlier and different tradition. It was a special favourite of Tolkien’s.
The three translations represent the complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of the originals, and are uniquely accompanied in this special deluxe slipcased edition with the complete text of Tolkien’s acclaimed 1953 W.P. Ker Memorial Lecture that he delivered on Sir Gawain.

J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one volume.
J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a ‘dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told’. And for many years readers would need to be content with the tantalizing glimpses of it found within the pages of The Lord of the Rings and its appendices, including the forging of the Rings of Power, the building of the Barad-dur and the rise of Sauron.
It was not until Christopher Tolkien published The Silmarillion after his father’s death that a fuller story could be told. Although much of the book’s content concerned the First Age of Middle-earth, there were at its close two key works that revealed the tumultuous events concerning the rise and fall of the island of Numenor. Raised out of the Great Sea and gifted to the Men of Middle-earth as a reward for aiding the angelic Valar and the Elves in the defeat and capture of the Dark Lord Morgoth, the kingdom became a seat of influence and wealth; but as the Numenoreans’ power increased, the seed of their downfall would inevitably be sown, culminating in the Last Alliance of Elves and Men.
Even greater insight into the Second Age would be revealed in subsequent publications, first in Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth, then expanded upon in Christopher Tolkien’s magisterial twelve-volume The History of Middle-earth, in which he presented and discussed a wealth of further tales written by his father, many in draft form.
Now, adhering to the timeline of ‘The Tale of Years’ in the appendices to The Lord of the Rings, editor Brian Sibley has assembled into one comprehensive volume a new chronicle of the Second Age of Middle-earth, told substantially in the words of J.R.R. Tolkien from the various published texts, with new pencil illustrations by the doyen of Tolkien art, Alan Lee.

First ever standalone edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as the nature of heroism and chivalry during war, and which features unpublished and never-before-seen texts and drafts.
In 991 AD, vikings attacked an Anglo-Saxon defence-force led by their duke, Beorhtnoth, resulting in brutal fighting along the banks of the river Blackwater, near Maldon in Essex. The attack is widely considered one of the defining conflicts of tenth-century England, due to it being immortalised in the poem, The Battle of Maldon.
Written shortly after the battle, the poem now survives only as a 325-line fragment, but its value to today is incalculable, not just as an heroic tale but in vividly expressing the lost language of our ancestors and celebrating ideals of loyalty and friendship.
J.R.R. Tolkien considered The Battle of Maldon ‘the last surviving fragment of ancient English heroic minstrelsy’. It would inspire him to compose, during the 1930s, his own dramatic verse-dialogue, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son, which imagines the aftermath of the great battle when two of Beorhtnoth’s retainers come to retrieve their duke’s body.
Leading Tolkien scholar, Peter Grybauskas, presents for the very first time J.R.R. Tolkien’s own prose translation of The Battle of Maldon together with the definitive treatment of The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth and its accompanying essays; also included and never before published is Tolkien’s bravura lecture, ‘The Tradition of Versification in Old English’, a wide-ranging essay on the nature of poetic tradition. Illuminated with insightful notes and commentary, he has produced a definitive critical edition of these works, and argues compellingly that, Beowulf excepted, The Battle of Maldon may well have been ‘the Old English poem that most influenced Tolkien’s fiction’, most dramatically within the pages of The Lord of the Rings.

Першае ліцэнзаванае беларускае выданне самага знакамітага твору ў жанры фэнтэзі, у перакладзе Ігара Кулікова. Вядомы пісьменнік Клайв Стэйплз Льюіс так сказаў пра "Валадара Пярсцёнкаў": «Гэтая кніга — як маланка з чыстага неба... Яшчэ ні­хто не прыдумляў свету настолькі шматграннага і ў той жа час настолькі вернага сваім унутраным за­конам; свету, які здаваўся б настолькі рэчаісным і які быў бы настолькі ачышчаным ад налёту індывідуальнай псіхалогіі аўтара; свету, настолькі актуальнага ў цяперашніх чалавечых абставінах, але настолькі свабоднага ад алегорыі».

A sumptuous full colour art book containing the complete collection of more than 100 sketches, drawings, paintings and maps created by J.R.R. Tolkien for The Hobbit.

When J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit, he was already an accomplished amateur artist, and drew illustrations for his book while it was still in manuscript. The Hobbit as first printed had ten black and white pictures, two maps, and binding and dust-jacket designs by its author. Later, Tolkien also painted five scenes for colour plates which are some of his best work. His illustrations for The Hobbit add an extra dimension to that remarkable book, and have long influenced how readers imagine Bilbo Baggins and his world.

The Art of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien is the complete collection of the artwork created by the author for his story. Including related pictures, more than one hundred sketches, drawings, paintings, maps, and plans are presented here, preliminary and alternate versions and experimental designs as well as finished art. Using fresh digital scans from the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford and Marquette University in Wisconsin, Tolkien’s Hobbit pictures can be seen more vividly than ever before.

Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull, two of the world’s leading Tolkien scholars, have edited the book and provide an expert introduction and comments. Readers who have enjoyed The Art of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien will find much of interest also in The Art of The Hobbit.

The Art of The Hobbit and The Art of The Lord of the Rings listed for next year are new printings, once present stock is exhausted, each with minor corrections to the text. Also, in order to keep production costs and therefore prices in check, The Art of The Hobbit will no longer have foldouts, and each title will no longer come in a slipcase, but instead will have a dust-jacket. (The HarperCollins editions to date have had slipcases but not jackets, while the Houghton Mifflin editions have had jackets but not slipcases.)

J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one volume. J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a ‘dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told’. And for many years readers would need to be content with the tantalizing glimpses of it found within the pages of The Lord of the Rings and its appendices, including the forging of the Rings of Power, the building of the Barad-dur and the rise of Sauron. It was not until Christopher Tolkien published The Silmarillion after his father’s death that a fuller story could be told. Although much of the…

Трилогия "Властелин Колец" бесспорно возглавляет список "культовых" книг ХХ века. Ее автор, Дж. Р.Р. Толкин, профессор Оксфордского университета, специалист по древнему и средневековому английскому языку, создал удивительный мир — Средиземье, который вот уже без малого пятьдесят лет неодолимо влечет к себе миллионы читателей. Великолепная кинотрилогия, снятая Питером Джексоном, в десятки раз увеличила ряды поклонников как Толкина, так и самого жанра героического фэнтези.

Faërie permettra à tous les lecteurs du Seigneur des Anneaux de découvrir plus intimement l'univers de Tolkien.
Dans son essai Du conte des fées, Tolkien nous donne une clé pour entrer dans son univers. Au sommaire également : trois nouvelles, ainsi que Le Retour de Beorhtnoth, un texte sur la guerre et l’héroïsme, Mythopoeia, texte fondamental pour comprendre Tolkien et sa relation aux mythes, et, enfin, une traduction révisée des Aventures de Tom Bombadil – accompagnée du texte anglais –, précédée d’une introduction de l’auteur qui intègre ce recueil dans le cycle de la Terre du Milieu.

Des milliers d’annees avant les evenements relates dans Le Seigneur des Anneaux, la Terre du Milieu est en proie aux luttes entre Morgoth, le premier Seigneur Tenebreux, et les Elfes, allies aux Hommes. C’est contre Turin et Nienor, les enfants de Hurin, que Morgoth lance une terrible malediction, les contraignant a une vie errante, pour se venger du heros qui a ose le defier.
Turin, qui cherche sa place parmi les Elfes et les Hommes dans un monde en guerre, lutte de maniere spectaculaire et tragique contre Morgoth, nous faisant decouvrir un passe meconnu de la Terre du Milieu.

D'année en année, le culte jaloux qui entourait Le Seigneur des Anneaux à sa publication dans les années 1950 s'est transformé en succès universel. Les Hobbits, ce « peuple effacé mais très ancien » qui vivait quelque part au nord-ouest de l'Ancien Monde, nous sont devenus aussi familiers que les héros des contes de fées ou ceux des grandes épopées, avec Bilbo, Gandalf, Bombadil ou Galadriel et tous les habitants de la Terre du Milieu.
Magistralement restitués par son fils après la mort de J.R.R. Tolkien, les Contes et Légendes inachevés du Premier Âge prolongent et élargissent l'œuvre de l'inépuisable conteur.