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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An important chapter in the saga of "The Silmarillion," first conceived by Tolkien at the end of his service in World War I, follows the romance between an immortal elf and a mortal whose worthiness is put to an impossible test.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A fantasy adventure saga set in the early days of Middle-Earth features humans and elves, dwarves and dragons, orcs and dark sorcerers clashing in an epic battle between good and evil.
Author
Series
History of Middle-Earth volume 4
Publisher
Del Ray Books
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
First Ballantine Books Edition.
Physical Desc
471 p.: maps ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Christopher Tolkien has gathered archival material that his late father used to create the world and the history behind his classic stories.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
The core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work whose origins stretch back to a time long before The Hobbit. Tolkien considered The Silmarillion his most important work, and, though it was published last and posthumously, this great collection of tales and legends clearly sets the stage for all his other writing. The Silmarillion is the history of the rebellion of Feanor and his kindred against the gods, their exile from Valinor and return...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the adventures of Bilbo Baggins, who embarks on a quest to reclaim stolen treasure from the dragon Smaug, along with his dwarve companions and the wizard Gandalf, and unwittingly returns to the Shire with a Ring of Power.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
Evil Morgoth rules over a vast military power from his fortress of Angband. Ulmo, the Lord of Waters, opposes him. Central to this enmity of the gods is the city of Gondolin, built and peopled by Noldorin Elves who rebelled against their rule and fled to Middle-earth. Into this world comes Tuor, cousin of Turin. Guided unseen by Ulmo, Tuor sets out from the land of his birth on the fearful journey to Gondolin. The story -- only ninety-five pages long--...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Never before published in a single volume, Tolkien's four novellas (Farmer Giles of Ham, Leaf by Niggle, Smith of Wootton Major, and Roverandom) and one book of poems (The Adventures of Tom Bombadil) are gathered together for the first time, in a fully illustrated volume. This new, definitive collection of works -- which had appeared separately, in various formats, between 1949 and 1998 -- comes with a brand-new foreword and endmatter, and with a...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey Books
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
First Ballantine Books Edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 503 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this intriguing volume edited by Christopher Tolkien, the vivid history of Middle-earth is traced, bringing the land, its topography and ever-clashing forces to the state readers recognize from The Lord of the Rings.
Author
Series
The Lord of the rings / J.R.R. Tolkien volume pt. 1
(John Ronald Reuel),Lord of the rings volume pt. 1
(John Ronald Reuel),Lord of the rings volume pt. 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Formats
Description
After discovering the true nature of the One Ring, Bilbo Baggins entrusts it to the care of his young cousin, Frodo, who is charged with bringing about its destruction and thus foiling the plans of the Dark Lord.
Author
Series
(John Ronald Reuel),Lord of the rings volume pt. 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (ca. 557 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-Earth still it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell, by chance, into the hands of the Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. On his eleventy-first birthday, Bilbo disappeared, bequeathing to his young...
Publisher
New Line
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
2-disc special ed.
Physical Desc
2 digital videodiscs (169 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The first chapter in Peter Jackson's new epic trilogy set in Middle Earth 60 years before J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the rings saga. Follow Bilbo Baggins as he's swept into a quest to reclaim the Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug. Approached by the wizard Gandalf, Bilbo joins a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior Thorin Oakenshield. Along the way they face many dangers; Bilbo meets Gollum and takes...
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Rental edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (161 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bilbo Baggins continues on in his journey with the wizard Gandalf and thirteen dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield, on an epic quest to reclaim their lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor.