Au milieu des annees 1950, un professeur d'Oxford a l'imagination inepuisable creait une epopee fabuleuse qui allait devenir l'objet d'un culte jaloux pour toute une generation de lyceens anglais. Aujourd'hui, les lecteurs du Seigneur des Anneaux se comptent par millions, mais ces adeptes des Hobbits et de leur pays des merveilles continuent a se comporter comme une secte secrete ou une maconnerie d'inities. Afin de faciliter l'acces des plus jeunes a son royaume fantastique, J.R.R. Tolkien publia des recits comme Les Aventures de Tom Bombadil, le joyeux drille, qui prolongent l'enchantement des comptines enfantines.

Au milieu des annees 1950, un professeur d'Oxford a l'imagination inepuisable creait une epopee fabuleuse qui allait devenir l'objet d'un culte jaloux pour toute une generation de lyceens anglais. Aujourd'hui, les lecteurs du Seigneur des Anneaux se comptent par millions, mais ces adeptes des Hobbits et de leur pays des merveilles continuent a se comporter comme une secte secrete ou une maconnerie d'inities. Afin de faciliter l'acces des plus jeunes a son royaume fantastique, J.R.R. Tolkien publia des recits comme Les Aventures de Tom Bombadil, le joyeux drille, qui prolongent l'enchantement des comptines enfantines.

Faerie permettra a tous les lecteurs du Seigneur des Anneaux de decouvrir plus intimement l'univers de Tolkien. Dans son essai Du conte des fees, Tolkien nous donne une cle pour entrer dans son univers. Au sommaire egalement : trois nouvelles, ainsi que Le Retour de Beorhtnoth, un texte sur la guerre et l’heroisme, Mythopoeia, texte fondamental pour comprendre Tolkien et sa relation aux mythes, et, enfin, une traduction revisee des Aventures de Tom Bombadil – accompagnee du texte anglais –, precedee d’une introduction de l’auteur qui integre ce recueil dans le cycle de la Terre du Milieu.

Des milliers d’annees avant les evenements relates dans Le Seigneur des Anneaux, la Terre du Milieu est en proie aux luttes entre Morgoth, le premier Seigneur Tenebreux, et les Elfes, allies aux Hommes. Morgoth lance contre Turin et Nienor, les enfants de Hurin, une malediction, les condamnant a l'errance, pour se venger du heros qui a ose le defier. Turin, qui cherche sa place parmi les Elfes et les Hommes, lutte de maniere spectaculaire et tragique contre Morgoth. On decouvre ici, avec le passe meconnu de la Terre du Milieu, le souffle epique si particulier a l’?uvre de celui qui est le pere fondateur de la fantasy contemporaine. Inclus un cahier illustre de 8 pages

Des milliers d’annees avant les evenements relates dans Le Seigneur des Anneaux, la Terre du Milieu est en proie aux luttes entre Morgoth, le premier Seigneur Tenebreux, et les Elfes, allies aux Hommes. C’est contre Turin et Nienor, les enfants de Hurin, que Morgoth lance une terrible malediction, les contraignant a une vie errante, pour se venger du heros qui a ose le defier. Turin, qui cherche sa place parmi les Elfes et les Hommes dans un monde en guerre, lutte de maniere spectaculaire et tragique contre Morgoth, nous faisant decouvrir un passe meconnu de la Terre du Milieu.

D'annee en annee, le culte jaloux qui entourait Le Seigneur des Anneaux a sa publication dans les annees 50 s'est transforme en succes universel. Les Hobbits, ce "peuple efface mais tres ancien" qui vivait quelque part au nord-ouest de l'Ancien Monde, nous sont devenus aussi familiers que les heros des contes de fees ou ceux des grandes epopees, avec Bilbo, Gandalf, Bombadil ou Galadriel et tous les habitants de la Terre du Milieu. Magistralement restitue par son fils apres la mort de J.R.R. Tolkien, Le Troisieme Age des Contes et Legendes inacheves prolonge et elargit l'oeuvre de l'inepuisable conteur. L'essentiel de l'oeuvre de J.R.R. Tolkien figure au catalogue Pocket.

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.

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 translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition is twofold, for there exists an illuminating commentary on the text of the poem by the translator himself, in the written form of a series of lectures given at Oxford in the 1930s; and from these lectures a substantial selection has been made, to form also a commentary on the translation in this book. From his creative attention to detail in these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy and clarity of his vision. It is as if he entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf and his men shaking out their mail-shirts as they beached their ship on the coast of Denmark, listening to the rising anger of Beowulf at the taunting of Unferth, or looking up in amazement at Grendel’s terrible hand set under the roof of Heorot. But the commentary in this book includes also much from those lectures in which, while always anchored in the text, he expressed his wider perceptions. He looks closely at the dragon that would slay Beowulf ‘snuffling in baffled rage and injured greed when he discovers the theft of the cup’; but he rebuts the notion that this is ‘a mere treasure story’, ‘just another dragon tale’. He turns to the lines that tell of the burying of the golden things long ago, and observes that it is ‘the feeling for the treasure itself, this sad history’ that raises it to another level. ‘The whole thing is sombre, tragic, sinister, curiously real. The “treasure” is not just some lucky wealth that will enable the finder to have a good time, or marry the princess. It is laden with history, leading back into the dark heathen ages beyond the memory of song, but not beyond the reach of imagination.’ Sellic Spell, a ‘marvellous tale’, is a story written by Tolkien suggesting what might have been the form and style of an Old English folk-tale of Beowulf, in which there was no association with the ‘historical legends’ of the Northern kingdoms.

Rover, un chiot, a mordu un sorcier. Pour le punir, ce dernier le transforme en jouet et le met en vente. Offert a un petit garcon, Fistondeux, Rover decouvre qu'il prend vie la nuit venue... Il finit par s'echapper et rencontre un mage qui l'envoie sur la lune retrouver sa forme initiale. La-haut, Rover, devenu Roverandom, croisera nombre de personnages fantasques et vivra d'incroyables aventures... On retrouve dans ce conte merveilleux, qui seduira petits et grands, tout le travail sur la langue, l'art du recit et la richesse du monde de Tolkien.

One of the most intriguing characters in The Lord of the Rings, the amusing and enigmatic Tom Bombadil, also appears in verses said to have been written by Hobbits and preserved in the 'Red Book' with stories of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins and their friends. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil collects these and other poems, mainly concerned with legends and jests of the Shire at the end of the Third Age.

De luxe boxed gift set of Tolkien’s most popular and charming tales; full of wit and humour, giants, dragons, magic and more, they are collected together for the first time and will delight readers of all ages. Farmer Giles 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… The Adventures of Tom Bombadil collects hobbit-verses from the ‘Red Book’ and other poems relating legends and jests of the Shire at the end of the Third Age. Smith of Wootton Major tells of the preparation of the Great Cake to mark the Feast of Good Children and the magical events which follow. Roverandom is 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. The story was written to console Tolkien's four-year-old son, Michael, who lost a beloved toy dog on the beach.

Plus connu pour ses travaux universitaires et pour l'invention de la Terre du Milieu, J.R.R. Tolkien est aussi un formidable auteur de contes pour enfants. Comme Bilbo le Hobbit et Roverandom, les Lettres du Pere Noel ont d'abord ete destinees a ses trois fils et a sa fille, auxquels, chaque annee entre 1920 et 1943, Tolkien a ecrit une lettre – parfois deux – pretendument envoyee du pole Nord par le Pere Noel ou l'Ours Polaire. Ces trente lettres et les dessins qui les accompagnent forment un recit tres prenant des aventures de l'homme en rouge et a la barbe blanche, de son ours assistant, et de leurs demeles avec les gobelins. Un ouvrage qui plaira aux enfants, a leurs parents, et surprendra plus d'un amoureux de Tolkien.

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 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...

Read the classic edition of Bilbo Baggins' adventures in Middle-earth. Featuring more than 60 colour paintings and pencil drawings by the award-winning artist, Alan Lee, Conceptual Designer on Peter Jackson's THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY. 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...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. It is now available in a smart new package, and is illustrated throughout in gorgeous watercolour and delicate pencil by Alan Lee, Conceptual Artist for Peter Jackson's films, THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY and THE HOBBIT: THERE AND BACK AGAIN.

The first ever trade edition of Tolkien's illustrated tale about the eccentric Mr Bliss, a man notable for his immensely tall hats and for the girabbit in his garden, whose whimsical decision to buy a motor car quickly becomes a catalogue of disasters. Professor J.R.R. Tolkien invented and illustrated the book of Mr Bliss's adventures for his own children when they were very young. The book was handwritten with lots of detailed and uproarious colour pictures. This is a complete and highly imaginative tale of eccentricity. Mr Bliss, a man notable for his immensely tall hats and for the girabbit in his garden, takes the whimsical decision to buy a motor car. But his first drive to visit friends quickly becomes a catalogue of disasters. Some of these could be blamed on Mr Bliss's style of driving, but even he could not anticipate being hijacked by three bears. As for what happened next - the readers, whether young or old, will want to discover for themselves.