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The History of Middle-earth Boxed Set 1 (4冊合售)

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內容簡介 《魔戒》作者托爾金✰ 傳世經典！精裝硬殼盒藏設計✰ 首度集結！《精靈寶鑽》、《未完成的故事》與《失落的故事之書》✰ 送給魔戒迷的完美禮物本套書共四冊，包含《精靈寶鑽》(THE SILMARILLION) 、《未完成的故事》(UNFINISHED TALES) 特別版，重現未修改的出版內容，以及兩冊《失落的故事之書》(THE BOOK OF LOST TALES)。此套書標誌了克里斯多福·托爾金（Christopher Tolkien）四十年來致力於彙整其父——《魔戒》作者J‧J‧R托爾金關於中土世界著作的成就。《精靈寶鑽》是托爾金奇幻文學的奠基之作，故事背景設定在《魔戒》之前的第一紀元，描繪了精靈、人類與黑暗魔君（Morgoth）的史詩戰爭；《未完成的故事》收錄多個中土大陸的重要故事，包括甘道夫與巫師的起源、埃西鐸之死與至尊魔戒的失落、洛汗王國的建立及中土大陸的重要故事，豐富了讀者的歷史和世界觀；《失落的故事之書》為中土大陸和維林諾的最初構思，後來被稱作《精靈寶鑽》神話傳說的最初形式。First in a series of hardback boxed sets celebrating the literary achievement of Christopher Tolkien, featuring double-sided dustjackets. Set 1 contains special editions of THE SILMARILLION and UNFINISHED TALES reproducing the first edition text, together with the two volumes of THE BOOK OF LOST TALES.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.Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth and the rise of Númenor in the Second Age to the end of the War of the Ring, and provides those who have read The Hobbit and 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 of Lost Tales stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor for the Tales were the first form of the myths and legends that came to be called The Silmarillion. Embedded in English legend and English association, they are set in the narrative frame of a great westward voyage over the Ocean by a mariner named Eriol to the lonely Isle where the Elves dwelt; from them he learned their true history, the Lost Tales of Elfinesse.In the two volumes of the Tales are found the earliest accounts of Gods and Elves, Dwarves, Balrogs and Orcs; of the Silmarils and the Two Trees of Valinor; of the geography and cosmology of Tolkien’s invented world.Published together for the first time, these four books collect the beginning of Christopher Tolkien’s forty-year career devoted to presenting his father J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings on Middle-earth, a unique accomplishment that celebrates the greatest invented world in all of fantasy literature.J.R.R. Tolkien's book 'The Fall of Númenor' was a Sunday Times bestseller w c 07-11-2022.

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各界推薦 ReviewPraise for The Silmarillion:‘At times rises to the greatness of true myth’Financial TimesPraise for Unfinished Tales:‘Another monument to the incredible imagination of Tolkien’Sunday TelegraphPraise for The Book of Lost Tales:‘Christopher Tolkien shows himself to be his father’s son… Tolkien devotees will rejoice’The New York Times Book Review‘In these Lost Tales we have the scholar joyously gambolling in the thicket of his imagination… a Commentary and Notes greatly enrich the quest’Daily Telegraph

作者介紹

作者介紹 J.R.R.TolkienJohn Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on the 3 January 1892 at Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State, but at the age of four he and his brother were taken back to England by their mother. After his father’s death the family moved to Sarehole, on the south-eastern edge of Birmingham. Tolkien spent a happy childhood in the countryside and his sensibility to the rural landscape can clearly be seen in his writing and his pictures.His mother died when he was only twelve and both he and his brother were made wards of the local priest and sent to King Edward’s School, Birmingham, where Tolkien shone in his classical work. After completing a First in English at Oxford, Tolkien married Edith Bratt. He was also commissioned in the Lancashire Fusiliers and fought in the battle of the Somme. After the war, he obtained a post on the New English Dictionary and began to write the mythological and legendary cycle which he originally called The Book of Lost Tales but which eventually became known as The Silmarillion.In 1920 Tolkien was appointed Reader in English Language at the University of Leeds which was the beginning of a distinguished academic career culminating with his election as Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford. Meanwhile Tolkien wrote for his children and told them the story of The Hobbit. It was his publisher, Stanley Unwin, who asked for a sequel to The Hobbit and gradually Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings, a huge story that took twelve years to complete and which was not published until Tolkien was approaching retirement. After retirement Tolkien and his wife lived near Oxford, but then moved to Bournemouth. Tolkien returned to Oxford after his wife’s death in 1971. He died on 2 September 1973 leaving The Silmarillion to be edited for publication by his son, Christopher.Christopher TolkienChristopher Tolkien, born on 21 November 1924, is the third son of J.R.R. Tolkien. During the Second World War he served in the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm as a pilot. At the end of the war he returned to Oxford University and became a Fellow and Tutor in English of New College in 1964, lecturing in the University on early English and northern literature. Appointed by J.R.R. Tolkien to be his literary executor, he has devoted himself since his father's death in 1973 to the editing and publication of unpublished writings, notably The Silmarillion and Beowulf, and the collections entitled Unfinished Tales and The History of Middle-earth. Since 1975 he has lived in France with his wife Baillie.

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