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.

Quatrième de couverture Les Premiers jours du Monde étaient à peine passés quand Fëanor, le plus doué des elfes, créa les trois Silmarils. Ces bijoux renfermaient la Lumière des Deux Arbres de Valinor. Morgoth, le premier Prince de la Nuit, était encore sur la Terre du Milieu, et il fut fâché d'apprendre que la Lumière allait se perpétuer. Alors il enleva les Silmarils, les fit sertir dans son diadème et garder dans la forteresse d'Angband. Les elfes prirent les armes pour reprendre les joyaux et ce fut la première de toutes les guerres. Longtemps, longtemps après, lors de la Guerre de l'Anneau, Elrond et Galadriel en parlaient encore.

Indispensable pour tous les amoureux de la Terre du Milieu!

Ce recueil de textes apporte un éclairage crucial sur le monde du Seigneur des Anneaux et du Silmarillion, à travers l'histoire de Celeborn et Galadriel ou l'expédition d'Erebor, un exposé sur les Istari - le groupe des Mages auquel appartenaient Gandalf et Saruman -, ou encore une description de l'Île de Númenor et des Palantíri. Le lecteur trouvera également une version en prose de l'histoire des enfants de Húrin, et un épisode de la vie de Tuor.

Autant de textes qui pourraient constituer le "volume zéro" de l'Histoire de la Terre du Milieu.

Concluding the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the final part of Tolkien''s epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. Featuring a striking black cover based on Tolkien''s own design, the definitive text, and a detailed map of Middle-earth. The armies of the Dark Lord are massing as his evil shadow spreads ever wider. Men, Dwarves, Elves and Ents unite forces to do battle agains the Dark. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam struggle further into Mordor in their heroic quest to destroy the One Ring. Impossible to describe in a few words, JRR Tolkien''s great work of imaginative fiction has been labelled both a heroic romance and a classic fantasy fiction. By turns comic and homely, epic and diabolic, the narrative moves through countless changes of scene and character in an imaginary world which is totally convincing in its detail. Tolkien created a vast new mythology in an invented world which has proved timeless in its appeal.
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This is the story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected... Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day, to whisk him away on a journey ''there and back again''. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon... The prelude to THE LORD OF THE RINGS, THE HOBBIT has sold many millions of copies since its publication in 1937, establishing itself as one of the most beloved and influential books of the twentieth century.
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Building on the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the second part of Tolkien''s epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring a striking black cover based on Tolkien''s own design, the definitive text, and a detailed map of Middle-earth. Frodo and the Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They have lost the wizard, Gandalf, in the battle with an evil spirit in the Mines of Moria; and at the Falls of Rauros, Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force. While Frodo and Sam made their escape the rest of the company were attacked by Orcs. Now they continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin - alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go.
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Voici des récits parmi les plus anciens des Jours Anciens. Tolkien venait de participer à la bataille de la Somme, il était ébranlé, malade, quand il composa La Chute de Gondolin, où Morgoth, le Sombre Seigneur, trouve le chemin du royaume caché et se présente, avec toute son armée, devant la cité forte ; seuls quelques Elfes en réchappent dont Earendel, petit-fils du roi. Le royaume caché, c'est l'Angleterre, et l'invasion de Morgoth exprime l'angoisse de l'auteur devant les hordes acérées des Teutons. Cependant, le ton est tout de grandeur héroïque, de même que le Conte de Beren et de Tinuvil respire l'élégie et même l'érotisme.

Cette nouvelle édition de Faërie permettra à tous les lecteurs du Seigneur des Anneaux de découvrir plus largement l'univers de Tolkien. Dans son essai Du conte de fées, Tolkien nous donne une clé pour entrer dans son univers imaginaire. Au sommaire également : trois nouvelles (Feuille, de Niggle ; Le Fermier Gilles de Ham et Smith de Grand Wootton), Le Retour de Beorhtnoth, un texte sur la guerre et l'héroïsme, accompagné de réflexions de Tolkien qui font écho au Seigneur des Anneaux ; 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.
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Les lecteurs de Tolkien se doutent depuis longtemps de tout ce que doit son
oeuvre aux traditions nordiques. Mais La Légende de Sigurd et Gudrún, publiée en
2009 par Christopher Tolkien, nous donne pour la première fois directement
accès à l'imaginaire nordique de son père. Deux grands poèmes (le Nouveau Lai
des Völsung et le Nouveau Lai de Gudrún) écrits au début des années 1930,
racontent dans le style caractéristique de l'auteur du Seigneur des Anneaux les
légendes nordiques de l'Ancienne Edda, les combats de Sigurd, la mort du dragon
Fáfnir, l'histoire tragique de Gudrún et de ses frères, tués par la malédiction
de l'or d'Andvari. Ces magnifiques poèmes possèdent la même puissance épique
que Les Enfants de Húrin dans leur peinture de cette tragédie familiale, et
dans le portrait du héros, Sigurd, déchiré comme Túrin entre des intérêts
contraires, et qui comme lui connaît une fin tragique. John Ronald Reuel
Tolkien est né de parents anglais le 3 janvier 1892 à Bloemfontein (Afrique du
Sud) et a vécu toute sa vie en Angleterre. Après avoir servi pendant la
Première Guerre mondiale, il s'engage dans une brillante carrière universitaire
à Oxford et devient l'un des plus grands philologues de son temps. Mais il doit
surtout sa reconnaissance à son extraordinaire oeuvre de fiction : Bilbo Le
Hobbit (1937), Le Seigneur des Anneaux (1954-1955) et Le Silmarillion (1977),
ainsi qu'à des textes inachevés rassemblés dans l'Histoire de la Terre du
Milieu. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien s'est éteint à l'âge de 81 ans, le 2
septembre 1973. INEDIT Illustrés par des vignettes en noir et blanc, ces
magnifiques poèmes montrent ce qu'a retenu Tolkien de la mythologie scandinave
pour le reprendre à son tour, dans Le Seigneur des Anneaux et dans Les Enfants
de Húrin. Le livre s'ouvre sur une présentation par Tolkien lui-même des
légendes du Nord, qui montre ce qu'il a retenu de la mythologie scandinave,
pour le reprendre à son tour, sous une forme moins visible, dans Le Seigneur
des Anneaux comme dans Les Enfants de Húrin. Un commentaire de Christopher
Tolkien présente les grands textes de la tradition nordique qui ont servi de
source à Tolkien, et les origines de la légende.   PAGE 1

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Special unjacketed hardback edition of the prelude to J.R.R. Tolkien''s epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. This edition of The Silmarillion features the complete work with a unique cover design and black and red endpaper maps.

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.
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Bilbo, comme tous les hobbits, est un petit être paisible qui n'aime pas être dérangé quand il est à table. L'aventure lui tombe dessus comme la foudre, quand le magicien Gandalf et treize nains barbus viennent lui parler de trésor, d'expédition périlleuse, et du dragon Smaug... qu'il va affronter. Car Bilbo doit partir avec eux ! Et le plus extraordinaire, c'est que le hobbit affrontera tous les dangers, sans jamais perdre son humour, même s'il tremblera plus d'une fois.

Dix ans après les Contes Perdus, traduits par Adam Tolkien, le petit-fils de l'auteur, la parution des
Lais du Beleriand poursuit la série de L'Histoire de la Terre du Milieu qui permet au lecteur français
de suivre la naissance de l'univers de J.R.R. Tolkien. Ce troisième volume, réclamé depuis
longtemps par les lecteurs posait des problèmes de traduction très particuliers en raison du
caractère poétique des textes qu'il rassemble. L'association d'une traductrice spécialisée en poésie
et d'un traducteur spécialiste de Tolkien a permis de résoudre ces difficultés et de présenter un
texte exceptionnel.
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 découvre des poèmes essentiels, rapportant les histoires de Túrin et de
Lúthien, deux héros centraux du Silmarillion et des Contes Perdus. Le Lai des enfants 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 à face avec Morgoth. Ce volume
comporte également un texte de C.S. Lewis sur le Lai de Leithian ainsi que des poèmes
fragmentaires (Fuite des Noldoli, Lai d'Eärendel et Lai de la Chute de Gondolin) auxquels Le
Silmarillion fait régulièrement allusion mais que les lecteurs francophones n'avaient jamais pu lire.
A l'instar des autres volumes, le commentaire et les explications de Christopher Tolkien encadrent
les textes de son père pour décrire l'évolution de l'Histoire des Jours Anciens, qui constituent le
décor du Seigneur des Anneaux.
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Immerse yourself in Middle-earth with Tolkien''s classic masterpiece, telling the complete story of Bilbo Baggins and the Hobbits'' epic encounters with Gandalf, Gollum, dragons and monsters, in the quest to destroy the One Ring. When they were first published, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings became instant classics. Treasured by readers young and old, these works of sweeping fantasy, steeped in unrivalled magic and otherworldliness have sold more than 150 million copies around the world. This new boxed set, published to mark the 75th anniversary of the publication of The Hobbit, offers readers a new opportunity to discover Tolkien''s remarkable world of Middle-earth and to follow the complete story of Bilbo Baggins and the Hobbits'' part in the epic quest for the Ring - beginning with Bilbo''s fateful visit from Gandalf and culminating in the dramatic climax between Frodo and Gollum atop Mount Doom and Bilbo''s departure to the Grey Havens.
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Begin your journey into Middle-earth.

A New Legend Begins on Prime Video, in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power .


The first part of J. R. R. Tolkien''s epic adventure THE LORD OF THE RINGS .

In a quiet village in the Shire, young Frodo is about to receive a gift that will change his life forever.
Thought lost centuries ago, it is the One Ring, an object of terrifying power once used by the Dark Lord to enslave Middle-earth. Now darkness is rising, and Frodo must travel deep into the Dark Lord''s realm, to the one place the Ring can be destroyed: Mount Doom.
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Painstakingly restored from Tolkien''s manuscripts and presented for the first time as a standalone work, the epic tale of The Fall of Gondolin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, Balrogs, Dragons and Orcs and the rich landscape and creatures unique to Tolkien''s Middle-earth. 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.
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Classic hardback edition of the third volume of The Lord of the Rings, now featuring Tolkien''s original unused dust-jacket design. Includes special packaging and the definitive edition of the text, with fold-out maps. The Companions of the Ring have become involved in separate adventures as the quest continues. Aragorn, revealed as the hidden heir of the ancient Kings of the West, joined with the Riders of Rohan against the forces of Isengard, and took part in the desperate victory of the Hornburg. Merry and Pippin, captured by orcs, escaped into Fangorn Forest and there encountered the Ents. Gandalf returned, miraculously, and defeated the evil wizard, Saruman. Meanwhile, Sam and Frodo progressed towards Mordor to destroy the Ring, accompanied by Smeagol - Gollum, still obsessed by his ''preciouss''. After a battle with the giant spider, Shelob, Sam left his master for dead; but Frodo is still alive - in the hands of the orcs. And all the time the armies of the Dark Lord are massing. This classic hardback features Tolkien''s original unused dust-jacket design, and its text has been fully restored with almost 400 corrections - with the full co-operation of Christopher Tolkien - making it the definitive version, and as close as possible to the version that J.R.R. Tolkien intended. Also included are the original red and black maps as fold-out sheets, and -for the first time -a fully revised and enlarged index.
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Painstakingly restored from Tolkien''s manuscripts and presented for the first time as a continuous and standalone story, the epic tale of Beren and Luthien will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, Dwarves and Orcs and the rich landscape and creatures unique to Tolkien''s Middle-earth. The tale of Beren and Luthien was, or became, an essential element in the evolution of The Silmarillion, the myths and legends of the First Age of the World conceived by J.R.R. Tolkien. Returning from France and the battle of the Somme at the end of 1916, he wrote the tale in the following year. Essential to the story, and never changed, is the fate that shadowed the love of Beren and Luthien: for Beren was a mortal man, but Luthien was an immortal Elf. Her father, a great Elvish lord, in deep opposition to Beren, imposed on him an impossible task that he must perform before he might wed Luthien. This is the kernel of the legend; and it leads to the supremely heroic attempt of Beren and Luthien together to rob the greatest of all evil beings, Melkor, called Morgoth, the Black Enemy, of a Silmaril. In this book Christopher Tolkien has attempted to extract the story of Beren and Luthien from the comprehensive work in which it was embedded; but that story was itself changing as it developed new associations within the larger history. To show something of the process whereby this legend of Middle-earth evolved over the years, he has told the story in his father''s own words by giving, first, its original form, and then passages in prose and verse from later texts that illustrate the narrative as it changed. Presented together for the first time, they reveal aspects of the story, both in event and in narrative immediacy, that were afterwards lost.
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Classic hardback edition of the second volume of The Lord of the Rings, featuring Tolkien''s original unused dust-jacket design. Includes special packaging and the definitive edition of the text, with fold-out map. Frodo and the Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They have lost the wizard, Gandalf, in the battle with an evil spirit in the Mines of Moria; and at the Falls of Rauros, Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force. While Frodo and Sam made their escape the rest of the company were attacked by Orcs. Now they continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin - alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go. This classic hardback features Tolkien''s original unused dust-jacket design, and its text has been fully restored with almost 400 corrections - with the full co-operation of Christopher Tolkien - making it the definitive version, and as close as possible to the version that J.R.R. Tolkien intended. Also included is the original red and black map of the Shire as a foldout sheet.
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For the first time ever, a special enhanced edition of the enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings, illustrated throughout with over 50 sketches, drawings, paintings and maps by J. R. R. Tolkien himself and with the complete text printed in two colours.

Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an unexpected journey ''there and back again''. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon...
Written for J.R.R. Tolkien''s own children, The Hobbit was published on 21 September 1937. With a beautiful cover design, a handful of black & white drawings and two maps by the author himself, the book became an instant success and was reprinted shortly afterwards with five colour plates.
Tolkien''s own selection of finished paintings and drawings have become inseparable from his text, adorning editions of The Hobbit for more than85 years. But the published art has afforded only a glimpse of Tolkien''s creative process, and many additional sketches, coloured drawings and maps - although exhibited and published elsewhere - have never appeared within the pages of The Hobbit.
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For the first time ever, a very special edition of the classic masterpiece, illustrated throughout in colour by the author himself and with the complete text printed in two colours.

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 and epic adventure has touched the hearts of young and old alike. Over 150 million copies of its many editions have been sold around the world, and occasional collectors'' editions become prized and valuable items of publishing.
This one-volume hardback edition contains the complete text, fully corrected and reset, which is printed in red and black and features, for the very first time, thirty colour illustrations, maps and sketches drawn by Tolkien himself as he composed this epic work. These include the pages from the Book of Mazarbul, marvellous facsimiles created by Tolkien to accompany the famous ''Bridge of Khazad-dum'' chapter. Also appearing are two full-size, fold-out maps drawn by Christopher Tolkien revealing all the detail of Middle-earth.
Sympathetically packaged to reflect the classic look of the first edition, this new edition of the bestselling hardback will prove irresistible to collectors and new fans alike.
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