This lavish gift edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic features cover art, illustrations, and watercolor paintings by the artist Alan Lee. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure. They have launched a plot to raid the treasure hoard guarded by Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon. Bilbo reluctantly joins their quest, unaware that on his journey...

The classic edition illustrated by Alan Lee is now updated with beautiful, full-color paintings.

There are tales of Middle-earth from times long before The Lord of the Rings, and the story told in this book is set in the great country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West: lands where Treebeard once walked, but that were drowned in the great cataclysm that ended the First Age of the World.In that remote time Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in the vast fortress of Angband, the Hells of Iron, in the North; and the tragedy of Turin and his sister Nienor unfolded within the shadow of the fear of Angband and the war waged by Morgoth against the lands and secret cities of the...

Ein echtes Stck Tolkienscher Erzhlkunst, das von geheimnisvollen Fabelwesen und schrecklich bsen Mchten handelt, von Freundschaft und von Treue - eben den Motiven, die auch den Herrn der Ringe bestimmen. Die Freunde von Tolkiens Werk werden um ein faszinierendes Leseerlebnis bereichert.Die Kinder Hrins spielt im Ersten Zeitalter von Mittelerde, noch vor dem groen Ringepos. Die bse Macht Morgoths breitet sich immer weiter nach Beleriand aus. Horden von Orks und der frchterliche Drache Glaurung bedrohen seine Bewohner ... Whrend Hrin von Morgoth gefangen gehalten wird, nimmt sein tapferer Sohn...