tolkien j r r john ronald reuel edited by christopher tolkien (11 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Jacket and illustrations by Alan Lee (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with '1' on copyright page. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£18.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy, with foldout map at rear as called for. 315pp, lavishly illustrated by Alan Lee. Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, the epic tale of 'The Children of Hurin' will reunite fans of 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' with Elves and Men, dragons and dwarves, eagles and orcs, and the rich landscape and characters unique to Tolkien. There are tales of Middle earth from times long before 'The Lord of the Rings', and the story told in this book is set in the great country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West, lands where Treebeard once walked, but which were drowned in the great cataclysm that ended the First Age of the World. In that remote time Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in the vast fortress of Angband, the Hells of Iron, in the North and the tragedy of Turin and his sister Nienor unfolded within the shadow of the fear of Angband and the war waged by Morgoth against the lands and secret cities of the Elves. Their brief and passionate lives were dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bore them as the children of Hurin, the man who had dared to defy and to scorn him to his face. Against them he sent his most formidable servant, Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire. Into this story of brutal conquest and flight, of forest hiding places and pursuit, of resistance with lessening hope, the Dark Lord and the Dragon enter in direly articulate form. Sardonic and mocking, Glaurung manipulated the fates of Turin and Nienor by lies of diabolic cunning and guile, and the curse of Morgoth was fulfilled. The earliest versions of this story by J.R.R. Tolkien go back to the end of the First World War and the years that followed, but long afterwards, when 'The Lord of the Rings' was finished, he wrote it anew and greatly enlarged it in complexities of motive and character: it 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 his son Christopher Tolkien (1924-2020), has constructed, after long study of the manuscripts, a coherent narrative without any editorial invention.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Jacket and illustrations by the author (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, second impression, published later the same year. Top of page block dyed dark blue as issued. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised,some faint spotting to page fore edges, not price clipped (£4.95), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, all text and maps complete, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 365pp, illustrated. The forerunner to THE LORD OF THE RINGS, which gives an account of the Elder Days when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwells in Middle Earth, and the High Elves make war upon him for the recovery of the Silmarils, the jewels containing the pure light of Valinor. Scarce in this first impression.

Fine. Zustand: Fine. Middle Earth (Imaginary place). Fantasy fiction.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Maps by Christipher Tolkien (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, third impression, published later the same year. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, burgundy cloth with gilt titles, top of page block dyed burgundy as issued, in scarce 'blue' variant jacket, which means that although background is deep burgundy the titles and illustration are picked out in blue. Not price clipped (no published price), no inscriptions, foldout map at end as called for, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy, looks hardly read. 472pp, illustrated. An extraordinary discovery is waiting for you on these pages. Mythic lore and forgotten legends unearthed by Christopher Tolkien from his father's archives unveil never-before-told stories of the three ages of ancient Middle-earth. Quite scarce in this unfaded variant jacket and early impression.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Text Cover (illustrator). Later Printing. ---------( Later Printing of the First Edition ) ---hardtcover, a Near Fine/Fine example, in a Near Fine/Fine dustjacket which is now in a hi-quality mylar protector, 470 pages, ---this contains: Foreword /Part One: The Grey Annals / Part Two: The Later Quenta Silmarillion ( 9. Of Men / 10. Of the Siege of Angband / 11. Of Beleriand and its Realms [ Includes details of later changes to the 'Silmarillion' Map ] / 12. Of Turgon and the Building of Gondolin / 13. Concerning the Dwarves / 14. Of the Coming of Men into the West / 15. Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin / The Last Chapters ) --- Part Three: The Wanderings of Húrin and Other Writings ( 1. The Wanderings of Húrin / 2. Ælfwine and Dírhaval / 3. Maeglin [ Includes details of further changes to the 'Silmarillion' Map ] / 4. Of the Ents and the Eagles / 5. The Tale of Years ) ---Part Four: Quendi and Eldar Index, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE /// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)--- Size: 5.75w x 9h Inches. Not Signed. NOT Price Clipped.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st American edition ; unknown printing ; 385 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm ; ISBN: 0395366143; 9780395366141 ; LC: PR6039.O32; F; Dewey: 823.912 ; OCLC: 21847514 ; "A collection of early stories and original ideas by J.R.R. Tolkien, presented and analyzed by his son Christopher Tolkien. Each tale is accompanied by notes and commentary." ; Contents: The tale of Tinuviel --; Turambar and the foaloke --; The fall of Gondolin --; The nauglafring --; The tale of Earendell --; The history of Eriol or Elfwine and the end of the tales. ; black cloth in red, grey gold dustjacket ; ownership stamp on front endpaper ; else FINE/FINE. Book.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. No Cover Art (illustrator). First Edition. ----------(1st Printing of the First Edition ) ---hardcover, a Very Good example, corners are gently rubbed, some small faint spots on the edges of the text block, a few pages are slightly crinkled or have very small creases to the corner tips, no dustjacket, , 455 pages, ---one of the scarcest of the MIDDLE EARTH series of books, ---contents are: Preface / Part One: The Fall of Númenor and The Lost Road (includes) 1. The Early History of the Legend 2. The Fall of Númenor . The Lost Road (Includes the texts of the poems: Ilu Ilúvatar en Káre Eldain a Fírimoin; King Sheave; The Nameless Land (as published in Realities: An Anthology of Verse); two versions of The Song of Ælfwine / Aelfwine ) /// Part Two: Valinor and Middle-earth Before The Lord of the Rings: 1. The Texts and Their Relations 2. The Later Annals of Valinor 3. The Later Annals of Beleriand 4. The Ainulindalë 5. The Lhammas (Includes The Lhammas itself, with reproductions of two versions of a diagram entitled The Tree of Tongues / It is followed by a shorter but related piece called Lammasethen, which reproduces a further version of The Tree of Tongues and another diagram - The Peoples of the Elves. 6. Quenta Silmarillion / Part Three: The Etymologies Appendix I - The Genealogies Appendix II - The List of Names Appendix III - The Second 'Silmarillion' Map ---Index, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)--- Size: 5.75w x 9h Inches. Not Signed.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. J R R Tolkien cover Art (illustrator). First Edition. ---------( 1st printing of the First Edition ) ---hardcover, a Near Fine example with a wee bit of very light rubbing, in a very lightly rubbed Near Fine dustjacket which is now in a hi-quality mylar protector, 425 pages, ---"The translation of beowulf by j.r.r. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication.this edition is twofold, for there exists an illuminating commentary on the text of the poem by the translator himself, in the written form of a series of lectures given at oxford in the 1930s; and from these lectures a substantial selection has been made, to form also a commentary on the translation in this book.from his creative attention to detail in these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy and clarity of his vision. It is as if he entered into the imagined past: standing beside beowulf and his men shaking out their mail-shirts as they beached their ship on the coast of denmark, listening to the rising anger of beowulf at the taunting of unferth, or looking up in amazement at grendel's terrible hand set under the roof of heorot.but the commentary in this book includes also much from those lectures in which, while always anchored in the text, he expressed his wider perceptions. He looks closely at the dragon that would slay beowulf 'snuffling in baffled rage and injured greed when he discovers the theft of the cup'; but he rebuts the notion that this is 'a mere treasure story', 'just another dragon tale'. He turns to the lines that tell of the burying of the golden things long ago, and observes that it is 'the feeling for the treasure itself, this sad history' that raises it to another level. 'the whole thing is sombre, tragic, sinister, curiously real. The "treasure" is not just some lucky wealth that will enable the finder to have a good time, or marry the princess. It is laden with history, leading back into the dark heathen ages beyond the memory of song, but not beyond the reach of imagination"---, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)--- Size: 5.75w x 9h Inches. Not Signed. NOT Price Clipped.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. No Cover Art (illustrator). First Edition. ----------(1st Printing of the First Edition ) ---hardcover, a Near Fine example, looks new, in an attractive Very Good/Very Good+ price clipped dustjacket, price sticker on front flap ( £17.95 which was £1 more than the initial price but UNWIN clipped the prices and raised the price by that £1 ), some small nicks mainly at flap fold tips, some light rubbing and flaking, a faint hint of sunning to the spine (see scan), an attractive copy especially with the jacket in a hi-quality mylar protector ---455 pages, ---one of the scarcest of the MIDDLE EARTH series of books, ---contents are: Preface / Part One: The Fall of Númenor and The Lost Road (includes) 1. The Early History of the Legend 2. The Fall of Númenor . The Lost Road (Includes the texts of the poems: Ilu Ilúvatar en Káre Eldain a Fírimoin; King Sheave; The Nameless Land (as published in Realities: An Anthology of Verse); two versions of The Song of Ælfwine / Aelfwine ) /// Part Two: Valinor and Middle-earth Before The Lord of the Rings: 1. The Texts and Their Relations 2. The Later Annals of Valinor 3. The Later Annals of Beleriand 4. The Ainulindalë 5. The Lhammas (Includes The Lhammas itself, with reproductions of two versions of a diagram entitled The Tree of Tongues / It is followed by a shorter but related piece called Lammasethen, which reproduces a further version of The Tree of Tongues and another diagram - The Peoples of the Elves. 6. Quenta Silmarillion / Part Three: The Etymologies Appendix I - The Genealogies Appendix II - The List of Names Appendix III - The Second 'Silmarillion' Map ---Index, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)--- Size: 5.75w x 9h Inches. Not Signed. Price Clipped Jacket.

First Edition (& 1st printing). First Edition. Octavo, original blue cloth titled & decorated in gilt on spine panel, top page edges stained blue. 365 pp, map of The Realms of the Noldor and the Sindar inserted facing page 121, large folding map of Beleriand and the Lands to the North tipped in at rear, both maps printed in red and black. The correct first printing of the first edition: "First published in 1977" on copyright page with no statement of reprinting. Printed by William Clowes & Sons, the dust jacket with no price (and not price clipped!) on the lower front flap. Technically, this is the UK edition, Export issue; these copies were printed first for export to Canada and precede the UK Domestic issue which was printed by Billing & Sons by offset lithography from this edition. The jacket is correct as well, the Export edition was issued with an unpriced jacket and the later UK Domestic issue has a price of £4.95 on the jacket flap. The issue points for THE SILMARILLION are actually very simple: The UK Export edition precedes all others, and is identified by the points mentioned above. There was a worldwide release date of September 15, 1977; copies of the Export issue were printed first in order to be available in Canada on the date of publication. There are several other so-called issue points: "missing full stop on page 330 line 4 after "Feanor"; "Lord of the Waters" and "King of the Sea" in italics on p 352 line 39"; but these errors are true of both the Export and the Domestic issue (the Domestic issue being reproduced by offset lithography from the export issue). The only real issue points that matter are the printer listed on the copyright page (it must be Clowes) and the unpriced jacket. CONDITION: Mild fading to top page edges, touch of fading to top edges of the cloth; ink inscription on front free endpaper (Christmas, 1977). Light rubbing and a few tiny marks to the jacket. A bright, very good or better copy; quite nice, map intact. Note: The red lettering on the spine panel is very prone to fading, heer it is unfaded, crisp and bright. The Silmarillion is a collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's mythopoeic works, edited and published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien in 1977, with assistance from Guy Gavriel Kay. The Silmarillion, along with J. R. R. Tolkien's other works, forms an extensive, though incomplete, narrative that describes the universe of Eä in which are found the lands of Valinor, Beleriand, Númenor, and Middle-earth within which The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings take place. After the success of The Hobbit, and prior to the publication of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien's publisher requested a sequel to The Hobbit, and Tolkien sent them an early draft of The Silmarillion. But through a misunderstanding, the publisher rejected the draft without fully reading it, with the result that Tolkien began work on "A Long Expected Party", the first chapter of what he described at the time as "a new story about Hobbits", which became The Lord of the Rings. The Silmarillion comprises five parts. The first part, Ainulindalë, tells of the creation of Eä, the "world that is". Valaquenta, the second part, gives a description of the Valar and Maiar, the supernatural powers in Eä. The next section, Quenta Silmarillion, which forms the bulk of the collection, chronicles the history of the events before and during the First Age, including the wars over the Silmarils which gave the book its title. The fourth part, Akallabêth, relates the history of the Downfall of Númenor and its people, which takes place in the Second Age. The final part, Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age, is a brief account of the circumstances which led to and were presented in The Lord of the Rings. [Wiki].