Published for The Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press.

"A glorious account of a magnificent adventure, filled with suspense and seasoned with a quiet humor that is irresistible . . . All those, young or old, who love a fine adventurous tale, beautifully told, will take The Hobbit to their hearts." - New York Times Book Review A beautiful gift edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's enchanting tale, fully illustrated by Jemima Catlin. Bilbo Baggins enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling farther than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of thirteen...

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

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...

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 skillful achievement in the use of Old English alliterative meter, 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...

"The tone is heroic, both the heroes and the villains greater than life-size." -- New York Times Book Review

Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth concentrates on the lands of Middle-earth and comprises Gandalf's lively account of how he came to send the Dwarves to the celebrated party at Bag-End, the story of 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 and the journey of the Black Riders during the hunt for the Ring. It also contains the only...

"Majestic . . . Readers of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings will find in The Silmarillion a cosmology to call their own, medieval romances, fierce fairy tales, and fiercer wars that ring with heraldic fury . . . It overwhelms the reader." -- Time

The story of the creation of the world and of the First Age, this 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 three Silmarils were jewels created by Feanor, most gifted of the Elves. Within...

This four-volume, deluxe pocket boxed set contains J.R.R. Tolkien's epic masterworks The Hobbit and the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King). Each book features a leatherette cover with stamped title and all four books are held in a leatherette bound box with gold foil stamping. Shrinkwrapped.InThe Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins is whisked away from his comfortable, unambitious life in Hobbiton by the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves. He finds himself caught up in a plot to raid...

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"A thrill . . . Beowulf was Tolkien's lodestar. Everything he did led up to or away from it." --New Yorker

J.R.R. Tolkien completed his translation of Beowulf in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition includes an illuminating written commentary on the poem by the translator himself, drawn from a series of lectures he gave at Oxford in the 1930s.

His creative attention to detail in these lectures gives rise to a...

He mo olelo moemoe k ia i haku ia a ua hele laul loa kona kama ina ma waena o n k naka o n pae makahiki like ole. Ua pili ka mo olelo i kekahi hopita i kapa ia o Bilbo Baggins a k ili ia o ia e ke k ula, o Gandalf, a me umi kumam kolu mau peke, e hele p i kekahi huaka i kupaianaha i ka imi i kekahi pu u kula a ia i i kia i ia e kekahi kelakona. He ku ih k ia Bilbo Baggins i ka hele p ma muli o kona k nalua i n mea weliweli, a he ku ih n ho i o ia i kona koa iho a me kona akamai i ka aihue ana. H l wai o ia me n hakua, n oaka, n peke, n m wao, a me n nanana pilikua, a p p leo o ia me ke...

He mo olelo moemoe k ia i haku ia a ua hele laul loa kona kama ina ma waena o n k naka o n pae makahiki like ole. Ua pili ka mo olelo i kekahi hopita i kapa ia o Bilbo Baggins a k ili ia o ia e ke k ula, o Gandalf, a me umi kumam kolu mau peke, e hele p i kekahi huaka i kupaianaha i ka imi i kekahi pu u kula a ia i i kia i ia e kekahi kelakona. He ku ih k ia Bilbo Baggins i ka hele p ma muli o kona k nalua i n mea weliweli, a he ku ih n ho i o ia i kona koa iho a me kona akamai i ka aihue ana. H l wai o ia me n hakua, n oaka, n peke, n m wao, a me n nanana pilikua, a p p leo o ia me ke...