Books with author J.R.R. TOLKIEN

HardCover. Pub Date :2013-09-26 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd JRR 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. JRRTolkien. 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 ...

THE GREATEST FANTASY EPIC OF OUR TIME Bilbo Baggins was a hobbit who wanted to be left alone in quiet comfort. But the wizard Gandalf came along with a band of homeless dwarves. Soon Bilbo was drawn into their quest, facing evil orcs, savage wolves, giant spiders, and worse unknown dangers. Finally, it was Bilbo-alone and unaided-who had to confront the great dragon Smaug, the terror of an entire countryside . . . This stirring adventure fantasy begins the tale of the hobbits that was continued by J.R.R. Tolkien in his bestselling epic "The Lord of the Rings,"

The standard hardcover edition of the second volume of The Lord of the Rings includes a large format fold-out map. Frodo and his Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They have lost the wizard, Gandalf, in a battle in the Mines of Moria. And Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force. While Frodo and Sam made their escape, the rest of the company was attacked by Orcs. Now they continue the journey alone down the great River Anduin -- alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go.

For over fifty years, J.R.R. Tolkien’s peerless fantasy has accumulated worldwide acclaim as the greatest adventure tale ever written. No other writer has created a world as distinct as Middle-earth, complete with its own geography, history, languages, and legends. And no one has created characters as endearing as Tolkien’s large-hearted, hairy-footed hobbits. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings continues to seize the imaginations of readers of all ages, and this new three-volume paperback edition is designed to appeal to the youngest of them.