As a scholar of mediaeval languages and literature, J.R.R. Tolkien brought to his fiction an intense interest in myth and legend. When he died in 1973, he left behind a vast body of unpublished material related to his fictive mythology. Now edited and published as "The History of Middle-Earth" by his son and literary executor, Christopher Tolkien, these 12 volumes provide a record of the growth of J.R.R. Tolkien's mythology from its beginnings in 1917 to the time of his death more than 50 years later. The material in these volumes offers an insight into Tolkien's process of myth-making and is a guide to the world of his literary works. An opening essay by Rayner Unwin, Tolkien's publisher for many years, surveys the publication history of the collection. The essays that follow, each written by an expert contributor, explore a wide range of topics related to "The History of Middle-Earth". Included are discussions of Tolkien's languages, the evolution of his vision over time, the shifting importance of central characters, and the effect of his mythology on "The Lord of the Rings". By exploring this mythological compendium, the volume sheds further light on the entire body of J.R.R. Tolkien's works and should prove of interest to those interested in his writings.

A new expanded edition of Tolkien's most famous, and most important essay, which defined his conception of fantasy as a literary form, and which led to the writing of The Lord of the Rings. Accompanied by a critical study of the history and writing of the text. J.R.R. Tolkien's "On Fairy-stories" is his most-studied and most-quoted essay, an exemplary personal statement of his views on the role of imagination in literature, and an intellectual tour de force vital for understanding Tolkien's achievement in the writing of The Lord of the Rings. "On Fairy-stories" comprises about 18,000 words. What is little-known is that when Tolkien expanded the essay in 1943, he wrote many more pages of his views that were originally condensed into or cut from the published version. An estimate is difficult, but these unpublished passages perhaps amount to half again as much writing as the essay itself. These passages contain important elaborations of his views on other writers, and their publication represents a significant addition to Tolkien studies. Included in this new critical study of the work are: / An introductory essay setting the stage for Tolkien's 1939 lecture (the origin of the essay) and placing it within a historical context. / A history of the writing of 'On Fairy-stories', beginning with coverage of the original lecture as delivered, and continuing through to first publication in 1947. / The essay proper as published in corrected form in Tree and Leaf (1964). / Commentary on the allusions in the text, and notes about the revisions Tolkien made to the text as published in Tree and Leaf. / Important material not included in the essay as published, with commentary by the editors. Contained within "On Fairy-stories" are the roots of the tree of tales that bore such glittering fruit in Tolkien's published and unpublished work. Here, at last, Flieger and Anderson reveal through literary archaeology the extraordinary genesis of this seminal work and discuss, in their engaging commentary, how what Tolkien discovered during the writing of the essay would shape his writing for the rest of his life.

包括以下五本 - The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition), The Silmarillion (30th Anniversary Edition), The Children of Hur in, Tales from the Perilous Realm. 限量100套。

在地底的洞府中住着一个霍比特人。 比尔博，一个热爱安逸生活的霍比特人，自得其乐地待在袋底洞他的霍比特洞府里。清晨和煦，睿智巫师甘道夫的到来打破了宁静。“越过冰冷而又雾蒙蒙的大山，在那深深地下洞穴已有千年……”吟着古老的歌谣，十三个矮人将比尔博拽进冒险远行的队伍。在这趟“意外之旅”之中，与世无争的霍比特人比尔博，却孤身一人在暗如永夜的山底洞穴中发现了足以改变整个世界的小小戒指。 《漫画霍比特人》由托尔金《霍比特人》故事改编，情节更紧凑。绘图者大卫•温策尔以他对奇幻作品和民间传说细腻的再现而广受赞誉。

◆ 托尔金创造的世界 艾伦•李让我们看见 ◆ 文学插画大师、电影《指环王》《霍比特人》艺术指导、奥斯卡奖得主的灵光汇集。 ◆ 从绘制《魔戒》插画到电影《指环王》三部曲的艺术设定。 收录逾150幅素描及设定图，包括从未面世的《指环王》电影概念原稿、专为本书创作的新画。全页幅画稿重现壮阔，展示画作从创意到定稿的全过程。 我们画了这么多素描，一点一滴设定全盘。到最后，它化为绝对真实：碧草漫过屋顶，家家户户炊烟四起。这就像目睹梦幻成真。 ——艾伦•李 ———————————————————— 《纸上中洲：艾伦•李的〈魔戒〉素描集》是托尔金作品最为著名的插画师艾伦•李的素描作品集锦。作为彼得•杰克逊执导的电影《指环王》三部曲的艺术指导之一，艾伦•李在本书中描述了他和维塔工作室的其他成员如何完成导演和制片人给出的“创造与还原中洲世界”的任务，并配以他亲手创作的素描稿。内容充实详尽，语言优美，是《魔戒》原著及电影爱好者必读之作。

包含Jemima Catlin绘制的200幅彩插。

★献给未来的永恒经典，我们时代最伟大的奇幻史诗。 ★20世纪严肃想象力之源，蕴含对世间万物最本真的好奇心与最深刻的洞察力。 ★ J.K.罗琳、乔治•马丁、彼得•杰克逊、阿西莫夫、阿瑟•克拉克……众天才敬仰的大师巅峰。 ★ 5 0种语言世间传诵，60载光阴历久弥新。 ★ 托尔金基金会指定，全新纯正译本。托尔金专家邓嘉宛据《魔戒》50周年纪念版重译。 ★ 面向未来的装帧设计。华语世界首次完整还原托尔金亲绘《魔戒》封面插画。赭红书盒覆磨砂书套。 这是一部为了世界的光明未来，誓死抵抗黑暗的伟大史诗。 至尊魔戒，拥有统御众戒、奴役世界的力量，黑暗魔君索隆苦觅已久。为了守护家园，魔戒继承人弗罗多毅然离开宁谧淳朴的夏尔，踏上前途未卜的旅途。与他同行的是睿智的巫师、勇敢的人类、美善的精灵、坚毅的矮人和热爱和平的霍比特人。征途见证了勇气与友谊。跃马客栈里的重重暗影，卡扎督姆桥的怒吼炎魔，勇猛骁勇的洛汗骠骑，范贡森林的上古树须，凄厉嘶嚎的邪恶戒灵，陡峭山壁旁的巨型毒蛛……每个人各自抵御着无尽的诱惑与磨难，承担起属于自己的善恶考验。 平凡的霍比特人战栗在末日烈焰面前，他能战胜这噬灭灵魂的至尊魔戒吗？ 全书共三部：《魔戒同盟》《双塔殊途》《王者归来》。 奥斯卡桂冠《指环王》三部曲电影原著小说。

C. S. Lewis is the 20th century's most widely read Christian writer and J.R.R. Tolkien its most beloved mythmaker. For three decades, they and their closest associates formed a literary club known as the Inklings, which met every week in Lewis's Oxford rooms and in nearby pubs. They discussed literature, religion, and ideas; read aloud from works in progress; took philosophical rambles in woods and fields; gave one another companionship and criticism; and, in the process, rewrote the cultural history of modern times. In The Fellowship, Philip and Carol Zaleski offer the first complete rendering of the Inklings' lives and works. The result is an extraordinary account of the ideas, affections and vexations that drove the group's most significant members. C. S. Lewis accepts Jesus Christ while riding in the sidecar of his brother's motorcycle, maps the medieval and Renaissance mind, becomes a world-famous evangelist and moral satirist, and creates new forms of religiously attuned fiction while wrestling with personal crises. J.R.R. Tolkien transmutes an invented mythology into gripping story in The Lord of the Rings, while conducting groundbreaking Old English scholarship and elucidating, for family and friends, the Catholic teachings at the heart of his vision. Owen Barfield, a philosopher for whom language is the key to all mysteries, becomes Lewis's favorite sparring partner, and, for a time, Saul Bellow's chosen guru. And Charles Williams, poet, author of "supernatural shockers," and strange acolyte of romantic love, turns his everyday life into a mystical pageant. Romantics who scorned rebellion, fantasists who prized reality, wartime writers who believed in hope, Christians with cosmic reach, the Inklings sought to revitalize literature and faith in the twentieth century's darkest years-and did so in dazzling style.

*英国文豪、《霍比特人》作者托尔金经典亲子绘本故事 *萌娃多多的睡前枕边书，多爸黄磊带多多及小闺蜜共同翻译，导演赖声川悉心英文指导 *带给孩子所有属于圣诞的快乐、无邪与甜蜜，今年最好的亲子礼物 近100年前的圣诞节，一位父亲在壁炉旁，看着渴望听故事的孩子，冒出了一个想法，用圣诞老爸的口吻给他的孩子写信。这一写就是二十余年。第一封信带着亲手绘制的图画，和父亲精心挑选的礼物一起被放在圣诞袜里，来到了三岁的最大的孩子手中。从此，一个由满满父爱、纯真之心描绘的北极生活在孩子们心中发芽、生长……那个世界里有会说话的北极熊，有多才多艺的精灵。 近100年后，这本充满父爱的绘本，连同北极圣诞老爸的故事和图画，成为了中国小女孩多多的睡前枕边书。她的老爸黄磊，陪着她和她的小伙伴，一起将它翻译成中文，进入那个快乐无邪甜蜜的世界。更多的中国小朋友，能够在父爱的陪伴下，在心中种下纯真的种子，伴随他们成长一生。 每年十二月，托尔金家的孩子们会收到一个盖着北极邮戳的信封。信封里装着圣诞老爸写给孩子们的信，以及画给他们的画。每一封信都是圣诞老爸用冻得抖抖抖的手亲手写下画下的。孩子们超爱圣诞老爸在信里讲的故事——他在北极老家的朋友、房子，以及许多或滑稽或奇妙的事儿：驯鹿把缰绳扯断了，搞得礼物四散到处都是；爱唱反调的北极熊爬上了北极柱，却从圣诞老人的房顶摔进了他的客厅；北极熊还把月亮摔成了四瓣儿，让住在里面的人掉到了后花园里；还有他们与住在圣诞老爸屋底洞穴里的半兽人部落之间的“战争”……北极熊偶尔会潦草地留个便条，精灵伊尔贝斯有时也会用他优雅飘逸的笔迹写上一些北极生活的细节。 写信的圣诞老爸其实就是托尔金老爸自己。第一封信写于1920年，当时最大的孩子约翰只有三岁。圣诞老爸的来信一写就是22年，托尔金的几位孩子都曾为之深深着迷，给圣诞老爸回信交流。最期盼圣诞老爸来信的小儿子克里斯托弗•托尔金，至今仍在守护父亲创造的中洲传奇。 和孩子一起读这本书，一个由满满父爱、纯真之心描绘的圣诞老爸的无邪甜蜜北极童话在孩子们心中发芽、生长……

《精灵宝钻》是托尔金对中洲世界起源的设定，蕴含着他为英语民族塑造创世史诗的雄心，由小儿子克里斯托弗•托尔金在其身后整理出版。16幅全彩插画，译文全新修订，新增托尔金揭秘创作历程长文。 始有一如，“独一之神”，其名在世间称为伊露维塔。 精灵，一如的首生子女，生永世热爱星光，他们的美丽并不凋谢或者消逝。 人类，次生子女，一如赐给了他们决定自己命运的自由，还有一样奇特的礼物——死亡。随着时间流逝，连众神亦会嫉羡。 精灵宝钻，由最有天赋的精灵——费艾诺造出。宝钻蕴藏着曾在双圣树上的维林诺之光，那是尚无任何堕落发生的太初时代的最后孑遗。第一代黑暗魔君、堕落的魔苟斯盗走了它们。费艾诺众子发下亵渎神灵的誓言，执意离开家园，前去向大敌发动战争、复仇到底。他们蛊惑族人违背诸神，渡海出征。 同族相残，堕落由此开始……