THE HOBBIT
Bilbo Baggins enjoys a quiet and contented life, with no desire to travel far from the comforts
of home; then one day the wizard Gandalf and a band of dwarves arrive unexpectedly and enlist his services -- as a burglar
-- on a dangerous expedition to raid the treasure-hoard of Smaug the dragon. Bilbo's life is never to be the same again.
THE SILMARILLION
The forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion fills in the background which lies behind
the more popular work, and gives the earlier history of Middle-earth, introducing some of the key characters. The Silmarillion
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 The
Lord of the Rings look back, and in whose events some of them, such as Elrond and Galadriel, took part. The tales of The Silmarillion
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.
TALES FROM THE PERILOUS REALM
Farmer Giles of Ham is fat and unheroic, but -- having unwittingly managed to scare off a short-sighted
giant -- is called upon to do battle when the dragon Chrysophylax comes to town; The Adventures of Tom Bombadil tells by way
of verse of Tom's many adventures with hobbits, princesses, dwarves and trolls; Leaf by Niggle recounts the strange adventures
of the painter Niggle who sets out to paint the perfect tree; Smith of Wootton Major journeys to the Land of Faery thanks
to the magical ingredients of the Great Cake of the Feast of Good Children. The four tales are written with the same skill,
quality and hallmarks that made Tolkien's Hobbit a classic. Largely overlooked because of their short lengths, they are finally
together in a volume which reaffirms Tolkien's place as a master storyteller for readers young and old.
ROVERANDOM
J.R.R. Tolkien's novella about the adventures of a bewitched toy dog 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, went through several drafts over the years.
UNFINISHED TALES
A collection of fantasy short stories from the author of LORD OF THE RINGS, which are set in Middle
Earth, from the time of the Elder Days to the end of the War of the Ring. Includes stories which feature Gandalf, the Riders
of Rohan, the Five Wizards, the Palantiri, the legend of Amroth, and the halycon days of Numenor.