A new edition of The Hobbit with a short introduction by Christopher Tolkien, a reset text incorporating the most up-to-date corrections, and all of Tolkien's own drawings and color illustrations, including the rare "Mirkwood" piece.

This covetable edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's grand masterwork The Lord Of The Rings --including The Fellowship of the Ring , The Two Towers , and The Return of the King --is illustrated with Tolkien's own artwork, created as he wrote the original text.

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard; the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam; Gimli the Dwarf; Legolas the Elf; Boromir of Gondor; and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider. This edition is illustrated with art created by Tolkien himself as he envisioned Middle-earth.

In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.

From Sauron's fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, his power spread far and wide. Sauron gathered all the Great Rings to him, but always he searched for the One Ring that would complete his dominion.

When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first birthday he disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom.

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 Manwë, 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 Túrin, 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 Eärendel, 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 Túrin and Idril, with the child Eärendel, 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 Eärendel, which Tolkien never wrote, but which is sketched out in this book from other sources.
Following his presentation of Beren and Lúthien 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 Lúthien and The Children of Húrin, he regarded it as one of the three 'Great Tales' of the Elder Days.

本书在它的作者去世四年之后出版。这部书描绘了上古时期，或者说“第一纪”时的情景。魔戒叙述的是第三纪末期发生的重大事件，《精灵宝钻》的故事则可以追溯到久远的过去那时候，莫高斯——第一个“黑暗之王”住在中洲，精灵为了夺回稀世之宝，向他发动了战争……这本书的书名是《精灵宝钻》。可是除了《精灵宝钻》，还有另外四个短篇。放在本书最前面的《圣贤之乐》和《梵拉的传说》与《精灵宝钻》的关系很密切，可是后面的两篇《努美诺尔覆灭》和《魔戒和第三纪》与《精灵宝钻》并无关系，可以独立成章。这是按照家父明确的意愿收入的。这样一来，我们就有了一部从伊路瓦塔通过“圣贤之乐”开天辟地、创造世界起到“第三纪”末期的完整的历史……

这是一部有关史前人类霍比特人的故事。弗拉多为了拯救族人，前往火焰山的厄运山口，要摧毁魔戒的魔力，使人类免受黑势力的奴役……
《魔戒王三部曲》是英国牛津大学中世纪英国文学教授J.R.R.托尔金于1954年推出的系列作品。它一经问世就在英美两国乃至全世界掀起了轩然大波，随即成为西方奇幻文学殿堂的经典之作，并影响了好几代的读者。至今《魔戒王三部曲》已被译成25种不同语言，全球销售量达9000万册以上。托尔金教授创造的中古大地魔幻社会，结构精密，住着不同的种族，而哈比族少年佛洛多被卷入一场争夺魔戒的正邪大战，凭着勇气和友人的帮助，终于战胜黑暗力量。
故事由魔戒持有者佛罗多展开，他在不知情的状况下继承了一枚戒指，却发现这枚戒指是魔王迟迟不能统治世界的关键。他也陷入了善恶双方争夺的处境中。几经波折，他才得知必须携带魔戒深入魔王的领土，才能在末日火山摧毁这一切邪恶的根源。
于是，在巫师甘道夫的主导下，由精灵、矮人、哈比人、游侠和人类组成了魔戒远征队，试图护卫佛罗多前往魔王的老巢。

《魔戒王三部曲》是英国牛津大学中世纪英国文学教授J.R.R.托尔金于1954年推出的系列作品。它一经问世就在英美两国乃至全世界掀起了轩然大波，随即成为西方奇幻文学殿堂的经典之作，并影响了好几代的读者。至今《魔戒王三部曲》已被译成25种不同语言，全球销售量达9000万册以上。托尔金教授创造的中古大地魔幻社会，结构精密，住着不同的种族，而哈比族少年佛洛多被卷入一场争夺魔戒的正邪大战，凭着勇气和友人的帮助，终于战胜黑暗力量。
故事由魔戒持有者佛罗多展开，他在不知情的状况下继承了一枚戒指，却发现这枚戒指是魔王迟迟不能统治世界的关键。他也陷入了善恶双方争夺的处境中。几经波折，他才得知必须携带魔戒深入魔王的领土，才能在末日火山摧毁这一切邪恶的根源。
于是，在巫师甘道夫的主导下，由精灵、矮人、哈比人、游侠和人类组成了魔戒远征队，试图护卫佛罗多前往魔王的老巢。
本故事随着讲述而扩展开去，直至演绎成一部“魔戒大战”史。其中还多次涉及到更古远的时代。在一九三七年《霍比特人》一书杀青，尚未付柞之前，我就开始写作续篇，但中途一度搁笔，原因是我想先将上古时代的神话与传说收集完整，并理出头绪来，那几年里这些神话传说已渐具眉目。我本来只是出于自己的爱好而从事这项工作的，不甚指望别人会对此产生兴趣，更何况其灵感基本来自语言学，是为了给小精灵语言提供必要的“历史”背景。
为此我请教了别人，他们的意见使我的不甚指望变成了毫不指望；只是读者们想知道更多的有关霍比特人及其历险的故事，受此鼓励，我又书归正传，提笔续写。但一落笔就不由自主地将故事带到更古老的世界，尚未提及它的起源与发展，就讲述其结局与消亡了。这一过程在写作《霍比特人》时就已见端倪。在那本书里，已有几处提到更古老的事物，如埃尔隆德、冈多林、高种小精灵、妖魔，还略微提到了一些半路冒出来的人与物，他们比表面看上去更鲜明，或更幽深，或更隐秘，比如杜丁、莫利亚、刚多尔夫、索隆、魔戒。发现这些人和物的内在意义及其与古代历史的关系，便揭示了第三纪及其高潮——“魔戒大战”。
三大戒指归属天下小精灵诸君，
七大戒指归属石厅小矮人列王，
九枚戒指属于阳寿可数的几人，
还有一枚属于高居御座的黑魁首。
莫都大地黑影幢幢。
一枚戒指统领众戒，尽归罗网，
一枚戒指禁锢众戒，昏暗无光。
莫都大地黑影幢幢。

“从前有个霍比特人，住在地洞里。”
霍比特人是一种比矮人个儿还小的人，善良精明而安分守已。毕尔博·巴金斯是他们当中的一个。这天他正在洞门口抽烟，来了大名鼎鼎的术士刚多尔夫，他为巴金斯带来了一队奇怪的客人。
于是巴金斯先生和他们一起开始了可怕的旅程。在途中的一次磨难里，巴金斯无意中得到了那枚神奇的魔戒，世界从此变了……

《魔戒王三部曲》是英国牛津大学中世纪英国文学教授J.R.R.托尔金于1954年推出的系列作品。它一经问世就在英美两国乃至全世界掀起了轩然大波，随即成为西方奇幻文学殿堂的经典之作，并影响了好几代的读者。至今《魔戒王三部曲》已被译成25种不同语言，全球销售量达9000万册以上。托尔金教授创造的中古大地魔幻社会，结构精密，住着不同的种族，而哈比族少年佛洛多被卷入一场争夺魔戒的正邪大战，凭着勇气和友人的帮助，终于战胜黑暗力量。
故事由魔戒持有者佛罗多展开，他在不知情的状况下继承了一枚戒指，却发现这枚戒指是魔王迟迟不能统治世界的关键。他也陷入了善恶双方争夺的处境中。几经波折，他才得知必须携带魔戒深入魔王的领土，才能在末日火山摧毁这一切邪恶的根源。
于是，在巫师甘道夫的主导下，由精灵、矮人、哈比人、游侠和人类组成了魔戒远征队，试图护卫佛罗多前往魔王的老巢。
本故事随着讲述而扩展开去，直至演绎成一部“魔戒大战”史。其中还多次涉及到更古远的时代。在一九三七年《霍比特人》一书杀青，尚未付柞之前，我就开始写作续篇，但中途一度搁笔，原因是我想先将上古时代的神话与传说收集完整，并理出头绪来，那几年里这些神话传说已渐具眉目。我本来只是出于自己的爱好而从事这项工作的，不甚指望别人会对此产生兴趣，更何况其灵感基本来自语言学，是为了给小精灵语言提供必要的“历史”背景。
为此我请教了别人，他们的意见使我的不甚指望变成了毫不指望；只是读者们想知道更多的有关霍比特人及其历险的故事，受此鼓励，我又书归正传，提笔续写。但一落笔就不由自主地将故事带到更古老的世界，尚未提及它的起源与发展，就讲述其结局与消亡了。这一过程在写作《霍比特人》时就已见端倪。在那本书里，已有几处提到更古老的事物，如埃尔隆德、冈多林、高种小精灵、妖魔，还略微提到了一些半路冒出来的人与物，他们比表面看上去更鲜明，或更幽深，或更隐秘，比如杜丁、莫利亚、刚多尔夫、索隆、魔戒。发现这些人和物的内在意义及其与古代历史的关系，便揭示了第三纪及其高潮——“魔戒大战”。
三大戒指归属天下小精灵诸君，
七大戒指归属石厅小矮人列王，
九枚戒指属于阳寿可数的几人，
还有一枚属于高居御座的黑魁首。
莫都大地黑影幢幢。
一枚戒指统领众戒，尽归罗网，
一枚戒指禁锢众戒，昏暗无光。
莫都大地黑影幢幢。

The Children of Hurin is the first complete book by J.R.R.Tolkien since the 1977 publication of The Silmarillion. Six thousand years before the One Ring is destroyed, Middle-earth lies under the shadow of the Dark Lord Morgoth. The greatest warriors among elves and men have perished, and all is in darkness and despair. But a deadly new leader rises, Turin, son of Hurin, and with his grim band of outlaws begins to turn the tide in the war for Middle-earth -- awaiting the day he confronts his destiny and the deadly curse laid upon him. The paperback edition of The Children of Hurin includes eight color paintings by Alan Lee and a black-and-white map.

The popular paperback edition of this fascinating collection of stories, which continue the tales of The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion and contains an alternative version of The Children of Hurin. Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and provides those who have read The Lord of the Rings with a whole collection of background and new stories from the twentieth century's most acclaimed popular author. The book concentrates on the realm of Middle-earth and comprises such elements as Gandalf's lively account of how it was that he came to send the Dwarves to the celebrated party at Bag-End, the emergence of the sea-god Ulmo before the eyes of Tuor on the coast of Beleriand, and an exact description of the military organization of the Riders of Rohan. Unfinished Tales also contains the only story about the long ages of Numenor before its downfall, and all that is known about such matters as the Five Wizards, the Palantiri and the legend of Amroth. The tales were collated and edited by JRR Tolkien's son and literary heir, Christopher Tolkien, who provides a short commentary on each story, helping the reader to fill in the gaps and put each story into the context of the rest of his father's writings.