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The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the extraordinary story of the final days of England's legendary hero, King Arthur. The Fall of Arthur, the only venture by J.R.R. Tolkien into the legends of Arthur King of Britain, may well be regarded as his finest and most skilful achievement in the use of the Old English alliterative metre, in which he brought to his transforming perceptions of the old narratives a pervasive sense of the grave and fateful nature of all that is told: of Arthur's expedition overseas into distant heathen lands, of Guinevere's flight from Camelot, of the great sea-battle on Arthur's return to Britain, in the portrait of the traitor Mordred, in the tormented doubts of Lancelot in his French castle. Unhappily, The Fall of Arthur was one of several long narrative poems that he abandoned in that period. In this case he evidently began it in the earlier nineteen-thirties, and it was sufficiently advanced for him to send it to a very perceptive friend who read it with great enthusiasm at the end of 1934 and urgently pressed him 'You simply must finish it!' But in vain: he abandoned it, at some date unknown, though there is some evidence that it may have been in 1937, the year of the publication of The Hobbit and the first stirrings of The Lord of the Rings. Years later, in a letter of 1955, he said that 'he hoped to finish a long poem on The Fall of Arthur'; but that day never came. Associated with the text of the poem, however, are many manuscript pages: a great quantity of drafting and experimentation in verse, in which the strange evolution of the poem's structure is revealed, together with narrative synopses and very significant if tantalising notes. In these latter can be discerned clear if mysterious associations of the Arthurian conclusion with The Silmarillion, and the bitter ending of the love of Lancelot and Guinevere, which was never written.

A commemorative golden anniversary edition of Tolkien's classic book, including a new introduction, a map, a copy of Tolkien's unpublished short story which he expanded for publication, his notes for an aborted sequel, and the original first edition illustrations by Pauline Baynes. Farmer Giles of Ham did not look like a hero. He was fat and red-bearded and enjoyed a slow, comfortable life. Then one day a rather deaf and short-sighted giant blundered on to his land. More by luck than skill, Farmer Giles managed to scare him away. The people of the village cheered: Farmer Giles was a hero. His reputation spread far and wide across the kingdom. So it was natural that when the dragon Chrysophylax visited the area it was Farmer Giles who was expected to do battle with it!

Nejpopulárnější kniha zakladatele žánru fantasy. Hobit je pohádkový příběh o velké cestě hobita Bilba Pytlíka, družiny trpaslíků a čaroděje Gandalfa za pokladem střeženým drakem Šmakem. Je to také jeden ze základních stavebních kamenů rozsáhlého a světoznámého cyklu příběhů, legend a mýtů z dávné Středozemě, který Tolkien posléze zpracoval v trilogii Pán prstenů a eposu Silmarillion.

Special collector's film tie-in hardback of the second volume of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic masterpiece The Lord of the Rings. This edition features the complete story with a sumptuous cover design and brand new reproductions of all of Tolkien's original drawings and maps. 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.

J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy story about the adventures of a bewitched toy dog, written before The Hobbit. While on holiday in 1925, four-year-old Michael Tolkien lost his beloved toy dog on the beach at Filey in Yorkshire. To console him, his father, J.R.R.Tolkien, improvised a story about Rover, a real dog who is magically transformed into a toy and is forced to seek out the wizard who wronged him in order to be returned to normal. This charming tale, peopled by a sand-sorcerer and a terrible dragon, by the king of the sea and the Man-in-the-Moon, was Tolkien's first full-length children's book, written before The Hobbit. Now, nearly 90 years later, the adventures of Rover - or, for reasons that become clear in the story, 'Roverandom' - are published in this delightful pocket hardback edition. Rich in wit and wordplay, Roverandom is edited and introduced by Tolkien experts Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond, and includes Tolkien's own delightful illustrations.

The first new illustrated edition of The Hobbit for more than 15 years contains 150 brand new colour illustrations. Artist Jemima Catlin's charming and lively interpretation brings Tolkien's beloved characters to life in a way that will entice and entertain a new generation of readers. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable and quiet life. His contentment is disturbed one day when the wizard, Gandalf, and the dwarves arrive to take him away on an adventure. Smaug certainly looked fast asleep, when Bilbo peeped once more from the entrance. He was just about to step out on to the floor when he caught a sudden thin ray of red from under the drooping lid of Smaug's left eye. He was only pretending to sleep! He was watching the tunnel entrance! Whisked from his comfortable hobbit-hole by Gandalf the wizard and a band of dwarves. Bilbo Baggins finds himself caught up in a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon...

The Hobbit is the unforgettable story of Bilbo, a peace-loving hobbit, who embarks on a strange and magical adventure. A timeless classic. Bilbo Baggins enjoys a quiet and contented life, with no desire to travel far from the comforts of home; then one day the wizard Gandalf and a band of dwarves arrive unexpectedly and enlist his services - as a burglar - on a dangerous expedition to raid the treasure-hoard of Smaug the dragon. Bilbo's life is never to be the same again. Seldom has any book been so widely read and loved as J. R.R. Tolkien's classic tale, 'The Hobbit'. Since its first publication in 1937 it has remained in print to delight each new generation of readers all over the world, and its hero, Bilbo Baggins, has taken his place among the ranks of the immortals of fiction.

The forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion tells the earlier history of Middle-earth, recounting the events of the First and Second Ages, and introducing some of the key characters, such as Galadriel, Elrond, Elendil and the Dark Lord, Sauron. 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. Included in the book are several shorter works. The Ainulindale is a myth of the Creation and in the Valaquenta the nature and powers of each of the gods is described. The Akallabeth recounts the downfall of the great island kingdom of Númenor at the end of the Second Age and Of the Rings of Power tells of the great events at the end of the Third Age, as narrated in The Lord of the Rings. This pivotal work features the revised, corrected text and includes, by way of an introduction, a fascinating letter written by Tolkien in 1951 in which he gives a full explanation of how he conceived the early Ages of Middle-earth.

Exkluzivní dárkový box, který obsahuje všech základních pět knih Tolkienova eposu. Naleznete zde nejen Hobita a trilogii Pán prstenů, ale také Silmarillion, bez něhož by příběh nebyl kompletní. Komplet obsahuje vázaná vydání s ilustracemi.

Sauron, Temný pán, shromažďuje vojsko a stín zla se šíří dál a dál. Lidé, trpaslíci, elfové a enti spojí své síly k boji proti temnotě. Frodo a Sam mezitím houževnatě postupují hlouběji do Mordoru v hrdinském úsilí zničit Jeden prsten. Úchvatný závěr Pána prstenů, klasického dobrodružného vyprávění J. R. R. Tolkiena, jemuž předcházely části Společenstvo prstenu a Dvě věže.

Společenstvo Prstenu je rozděleno. Frodo a Sam pokračují ve svém putování podél Velké řeky Anduiny sami - tedy až na tajemnou postavu, která se krade za nimi a sleduje každý jejich krok. Tak pokračuje Pán prstenů, klasické dobrodružné vyprávění J. R. R. Tolkiena, jež započalo v románu Společenstvo prstenu a končí ohromujícím vyvrcholením v Návratu krále.

Toto je příběh o tom, kterak se Pytlík vydal za dobrodružstvím a shledal, že náhle dělá a říká naprosto neočekávané věci… Bilbo Pytlík je hobit, který se těší z pohodlnéh a skromného života a jen zřídkakdy putuje dále než do své spižírny ve Dně pytle. Jeho spokojené bytí je však narušeno, když se jednoho dne u jeho prahu objeví čaroděj Gandalf v doprovodu třinácti trpaslíků a vezmou ho s sebou na cestu "tam a zase zpátky". Mají v úmyslu uloupit poklad mocného Šmaka, velikého a velmi nebezpečného draka...

Mladému hobitovi z jedné ospalé vesnice v Kraji je svěřen¨přetěžký úkol: musí podniknout nebezpečnou pouť přes celou Středozem až k Puklinám osudu a tam zničit vládnoucí prsten Moci - jedině tak lze zabránit Temnému pánu Sauronovi, aby si podmanil celý svět. Tak začíná Pán prstenů, klasické dobrodružné vyprávění J. R. R. Tolkiena, které pokračuje v románech Dvě věže a Návrat krále

Hobit je kniha dejovo spojená s trilógiou Pán Prsteňov. Autor, povzbudený čitateľským úspechom, ktorý nasledoval po vydaní Hobita (prvý raz vyšiel v roku 1937), sa rozhodol pokračovať v príbehoch Stredozeme a rozšíriť ich; tak sa zrodil trojdielny román Pán Prsteňov a Silmarillion. Žriedlom spisovateľovej inšpirácie boli grécka, rímska, keltská a anglosaská mytológia, artušovské, karolínske a germánske legendy. V jeho diele sa prejavilo všetko, čím bol: tvorivým spisovateľom, filológom, historikom, etnografom, znalcom mýtov, geografom, filozofom, umelcom a oddaným kresťanom. Tolkienovo rozprávačské majstrovstvo spočíva vo vytvorení vlastnej, originálnej mytológie.

Fascinating for Latin learners and for Tolkien fans of all ages, The Hobbit has been translated into Latin for the first time since its publication 75 years ago. In foramine terrae habitabat hobbitus. ('In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit.') The Hobbit, is one of the world's most popular classic stories, appealing to adults as much as to the children for whom J.R.R. Tolkien first wrote the book. Translated worldwide into more than 60 modern languages, now Hobbitus Ille is finally published in Latin, and will be of interest to all those who are studying the language, whether at school or at a higher level. In the great tradition of publishing famous children's books in Latin, professional classicist and lifelong Tolkien fan Mark Walker provides a deft translation of the entire book. His attention to detail, including the transformation of Tolkien's songs and verses into classical Latin metres, will fascinate and entertain readers of all ability, even those with only a minimal acquaintance with the language.

Tento príbeh narastal pri rozprávaní, až sa stal dejinami Veľkej vojny o Prsteň a obsahuje mnoho pohľadov do ešte starodávnejších dejín, ktoré mu predchádzali - napísal v predslove k druhému vydaniu J. R. R. Tolkien o tejto vari najznámejšej knižnej trilógii minulého storočia. Čarovný svet elfov a hobitov je paralelným svetom ""veľkých ľudí"". Jeho hlavnou témou je Prsteň ako ohnivko, ktoré ho púta k Hobitovi. Proti akýmkoľvek alegóriám sa autor bránil a všetky možné posolstvá a vnútorné významy spájané s jeho knihou sa mu zo srdca protivili. Preto je túto knihu potrebné chápať ako najobľúbenejšie dejiny pradávneho veku a nijako inak. Knihu preložil Otakar Kořínek.