Wyjątkowo edycja w jednym tomie dwóch magicznych opowieści Tolkiena oraz baśniowego cyklu wierszy, nawiązującego do jednej z najbardziej tajemniczych postaci z Władcy Pierścieni – Toma Bombadila Zawarte w książce opowieści stanowią dowód niezwykłego poczucia humoru Tolkiena, który musiał «odreagować» wieloletnią pracę nad epopeją Władca Pierścieni . Pisarz w żartobliwy sposób wykorzystuje tu motywy heroiczne i rycerskie, robiąc sobie wakacje od «spraw wyższych, głębszych lub bardziej...
Continuing the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the first part of Tolkiens epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings.Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring the ring that rules them all which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins.In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his...
First ever critical study of Tolkien’s little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martin’s Game of Thrones.J.R.R. Tolkien’s linguistic invention was a fundamental part of his artistic output, to the extent that later on in life he attributed the existence of his mythology to the desire to give his languages a home and peoples to speak them. As Tolkien puts it in ‘A Secret Vice’, ‘the making of language and mythology are...
