{"product_id":"the-history-of-middle-history-j-r-r-tolkien","title":"The History of Middle History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFirst 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Silmarillion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e look back, and in whose events some of them, such as Elrond and Galadriel, took part. The tales of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Silmarillion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eUnfinished Tales\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Hobbit\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e with a whole collection of background and new stories from the twentieth century’s most acclaimed popular author.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Book of Lost Tales\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Silmarillion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the two volumes of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTales\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"J.R.R. Tolkien","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48404245086423,"sku":"9780008663162","price":50.0,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0498\/4081\/6279\/files\/27_f98f2d71-9f94-4716-9c69-c59031f98de9.png?v=1774443996","url":"https:\/\/theenglishbookshop.com\/products\/the-history-of-middle-history-j-r-r-tolkien","provider":"The English Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}