{"product_id":"the-history-of-middle-earth-box-set-1","title":"The History of Middle–earth Box Set #1: he Silmarillion \/ Unfinished Tales \/ Book of Lost Tales, Part One \/ Book of Lost Tales, Part Two","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFirst in a series of hardcover box sets celebrating the literary achievement of Christopher Tolkien, featuring double-sided dustjackets\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eone side featuring artwork by John Howe, and the original graphic treatment on the other\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e. Set 1 contains special editions of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Silmarillion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eUnfinished Tales \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ereproducing the first edition text, together with the two volumes of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Book of Lost Tales\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTales\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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":"ΤΣΙΓΑΡΙΔΑΣ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56987764687234,"sku":null,"price":118.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/0528\/7484\/files\/the-history-of-middle-earth-1.jpg?v=1792414529","url":"https:\/\/biblioteca.gr\/products\/the-history-of-middle-earth-box-set-1","provider":"Biblioteca","version":"1.0","type":"link"}