Bøger af J.R.R. Tolkien

Ny pragtudgave af Tolkiens klassiker om hobbitten Bilbo Sækker, der meget mod sin vilje bliver udpeget af troldmanden Gandalf til at ledsage tretten dværge på deres generobringstogt af dværgekongens herredømme og enorme skat, der nidkært vogtes af dragen Smaug. Det bliver en farefuld færd. Smukt illustreret med helsides farveillustrationer og sort-hvide stregtegninger af Alan Lee. "Det er vitterligt et eventyrenes eventyr." - Klaus Rothstein, Berlingske Tidende. Besøg Gyldendals hjemmeside for Tolkiens forfatterskab. Her kan du læse mere om bøgerne samt uddrag, læse om Tolkien selv, se nyheder, deltage i konkurrencer og debatforum m.m. www.tolkien.gyldendal.dk

Saurons styrker har belejret Minas Tirith, Gondors hovedstad, i bestræbelsen på at udslette menneskeracen. Det før så store kongedømme har aldrig været i større bekneb for en konge. Men kan Aragorn leve op til sit navn og blive det, han er født til?Det sidste store slag nærmer sig, og de mørke styrker rykker tættere og tættere på, og selv med opbydelsen af al deres mod og loyalitet er menneskenes styrker ikke en reel trussel mod Saurons mægtige hær.Hør om det lykkes Ringbæreren Frodo at fuldføre sin mission.Bøgerne om Ringenes Herre blev kultbøger i 1960’erne og ved årtusindskiftet ses igen en opblomstring i Tolkieninteressen. Hør 3. og sidste del af trilogien - indlæst af Torben Sekov.

Første bind af Tolkiens udødelige klassiker om hobbitten Frodo, der arver en mystisk ring af sin onkel Bilbo. Men Ringen tilhører den onde fyrst Sauron, der vil bruge den på at underlægge sig verden. Frodo må forlade sit elskede Herred for at rejse til Dommedagsbjerget og tilintetgøre Ringen. Med sig på rejsen har han troldmanden Gandalf, elveren Legolas, dværgen Gimli, mennesket Boromir, tre af sine nærmeste hobbitvenner samt ikke mindst den hemmelighedsfulde Traver.Teksten er gennemrevideret af Jakob Levinsen, og alle appendikser er med. Derved udkommer værket for første gang på dansk i komplet version.

Ondskabens fyrste, Sauron, kan gøre sin magt fuldkommen, hvis Ringen kommer i hans besiddelse. Det skal hobbitten Frodo forhindre, men Ringen kan ikke skjules, den vil let kunne spores af Sauron såvel i jord som i vand. Der er kun én ting at stille op - den må tilintetgøres. Den opgave påtager Frodo sig og drager ud for at kaste Ringen på den ild, hvor den blev støbt - i Dommedagsbjerget, der ligger i Saurons rige. Bøgerne om Ringenes Herre blev kultbøger i 1960’erne og ved årtusindskiftet ses igen en opblomstring i Tolkieninteressen. Hør 2. del af trilogien - indlæst af Torben Sekov.

Læn dig tilbage og nyd den udødelige romanklassiker om hobbitten Bilbo Sækker, der meget mod sin vilje bliver udpeget af troldmanden Gandalf til at ledsage tretten dværge på deres generobringstogt efter den enorme skat, der nidkært vogtes af dragen Smaug. Og som undervejs tilfældigt render ind i mørkevæsenet Gollum og vinder hans mærkelige ring fra ham i en dyst om ordspil og gåder.Tolkiens klassiker "Hobbitten" er højaktuel pga Peter Jacksons filmatiseringer. Her på Gyldendal fejrer vi Tolkien og "Hobbitten" på mange planer, bla. med denne flotte udgave med filmomslag. Desuden er romanen blevet nyoversat af en af Danmark største Tolkien-kendere, Jakob Levinsen.Udgave med filmforside og i nyoversættelse. 

Tolkiens søn, Christopher Tolkien, har samlet og kommenteret en række fortællinger, som Tolkien efterlod og aldrig nåede at skrive færdig til en helhed. Der er tale om enkeltstående, længere og episke historier, som relaterer sig til Tolkiens øvrige univers. Efter hver historie er der et notesæt, og bagest i bogen er der et fyldigt indeks med mulighed for at slå alle navne og steder efter. Derudover indledning af Christopher Tolkien.

With Christopher Tolkien as your guide, take a tour through this colourful gallery of enchanting art by J.R.R. Tolkien, as published originally in the first groundbreaking Tolkien Calendars of the 1970s.

Fortællingen om Húrins børn opstod i sin første form i 1918 som en af de tre Store Fortællinger, som Tolkien arbejdede på hele sit liv, men aldrig udgav. Fortællingerne var en del af hans livslange projekt om at skabe et stort, sammenhængende mytisk univers, der kulminerede med skabelsen af Ringenes herre i 50'erne. Fortællingen om Húrins børn finder sted længe før Frodos kamp mod Sauron - i Tolkiens tidsregning ca. 6.500 år før. Elementer i historien har optrådt her og der i de kendte romaner - f.eks. er Aragorns natlige beretning om Beren og Lúthien til hobbitterne på Vejrhøj i Ringenes herre bd. 1, en af de oprindelige tre Store Fortællinger - men en samlet fremstilling nåede Tolkien ikke at skabe. Det er nu lykkedes hans søn Christopher at samle faderens mange skitser til en fortløbende beretning om den legendariske Húrins to børn Túrin og Niënor, deres kamp mod Den Store Fjende Melkor Morgoth, og ikke mindst den forfærdelige forbandelse, der hviler over dem. Bogen er meget smukt illustreret af Alan Lee, som har illustreret adskillige Tolkien-udgivelser og vandt en Oscar for bedste filmdesign i filmatiseringen af Ringenes herre-trilogien.

The Fellowship of the Ring is the first volume in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure tale, The Lord of the Rings.One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.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, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell into the hands of Bilbo Baggins, as told in The Hobbit. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.?A unique, wholly realized other world, evoked from deep in the well of Time, massively detailed, absorbingly entertaining, profound in meaning.??The New York Times

In this song book the composer Donald Swann gives Tolkien characters Bilbo, Treebeard, Sam Gangee and Tom Bombadil tunes for their ballads of the road. Professor Tolkien approved of this and added a tune of his own, along with a glossary of Elvish terms and lore. Includes CD.

Widely regarded as a broadcasting classic, the 1981 BBC Radio dramatisation of The Lord of the Rings stars Ian Holm, Michael Hordern, Robert Stephens, John Le Mesurier and Peter Woodthorpe. This box set contains all three parts of the epic tale - The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King.

Niels er en stilfærdig bonde, der pludselig bliver kendt, da han skræmmer en kæmpe på flugt. Dragen Chrysophylex begynder at hærge det lille rige, og kongen søger råd hos Niels. Et lille sagn fra gamle dage, dengang da England var opdelt i mange små riger.Bogen indeholder desuden digtet "Tom Bombadils Eventyr" samt andre vers fra Den Røde Bog.

Som straf for at bide troldmanden Artaxerxes bliver hunden Rover forvandlet til en lillebitte hund. For at genvinde sin normale størrelse må den igennem mange prøvelser og finder til slut troldmanden igen. Besøg Gyldendals hjemmeside for Tolkiens forfatterskab. Her kan du læse mere om bøgerne samt uddrag, læse om Tolkien selv, se nyheder, deltage i konkurrencer og debatforum m.m. www.tolkien.gyldendal.dk

The tale of Beren and Lúthien was, or became, an essential element in the evolution of The Silmarillion, the myths and legends of the First Age of the World conceived by J.R.R. Tolkien. Returning from France and the battle of the Somme at the end of 1916, he wrote the tale in the following year. Essential to the story, and never changed, is the fate that shadowed the love of Beren and Lúthien: for Beren was a mortal man, but Lúthien was an immortal elf. Her father, a great elvish lord, in deep opposition to Beren, imposed on him an impossible task that he must perform before he might wed Lúthien. This is the kernel of the legend; and it leads to the supremely heroic attempt of Beren and Lúthien together to rob the greatest of all evil beings, Melkor, called Morgoth, the Black Enemy, of a Silmaril. In this book Christopher Tolkien has attempted to extract the story of Beren and Lúthien from the comprehensive work in which it was embedded; but that story was itself changing as it developed new associations within the larger history. To show something of the process whereby this legend of Middle-earth evolved over the years, he has told the story in his father's own words by giving, first, its original form, and then passages in prose and verse from later texts that illustrate the narrative as it changed. Presented together for the first time, they reveal aspects of the story, both in event and in narrative immediacy, that were afterwards lost. Published on the tenth anniversary of the last Middle-earth book, the international bestseller The Children of Húrin, this new volume similarly includes drawings and color plates by Alan Lee, who also illustrated The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit and went on to win Academy Awards for his work on The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

There are tales of Middle-earth from times long before The Lord of the Rings, and the story told in this book is set in the great country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West: lands where Treebeard once walked, but that were drowned in the great cataclysm that ended the First Age of the World.In that remote time Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in the vast fortress of Angband, the Hells of Iron, in the North; and the tragedy of Túrin and his sister Niënor unfolded within the shadow of the fear of Angband and the war waged by Morgoth against the lands and secret cities of the Elves.Their brief and passionate lives were dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bore them as the children of Húrin, the man who had dared to defy and to scorn him to his face. Against them he sent his most formidable servant, Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire. Into this story of brutal conquest and flight, of forest hiding-places and pursuit, of resistance with lessening hope, the Dark Lord and the Dragon enter in direly articulate form. Sardonic and mocking, Glaurung manipulated the fates of Túrin and Niënor by lies of diabolic cunning and guile, and the curse of Morgoth was fulfilled.

Denne boka er forløperen til Ringenes herre.

The extraordinary history of Middle-earth comes to life in this essential five-volume collection from the beloved author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The History of Middle-earth chronicles the creation of the mythology, languages, and histories that form the foundation for Tolkien's most beloved works--The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. With painstaking documentation and analysis, Christopher Tolkien guides readers through his father's legendarium. The Book of Lost Tales, Part One & Part Two collect the early myths and legends that led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. The Lays of Beleriand includes two of Middle-earth's most crucial stories--that of Túrin Turambar, a hero living under a ruinous family curse, and Lúthien, an elven princess whose love for a mortal man is mirrored ages later in the romance of Arwen and Aragorn--and sheds light on the creation of Tolkien's mythology. The Shaping of Middle-earth traces the development of Middle-earth's earliest lore, from the sundering of the world to Beleriand and the events of The Silmarillion. The Lost Road and Other Writings chronicles the original destruction of Númenor and includes essays on the complex languages of Middle-earth along with an extensive account of Elvish vocabularies.

SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT, PEARL, and SIR ORFEO are masterpieces of a remote and exotic age--the age of chivalry and wizards, knights and holy quests. Yet it is only in the unique artistry and imagination of J.R.R. Tolken that the language, romance, and power of these great stories comes to life for modern readers, in this masterful and compelling new translation.

Broadcast to mark the 3000th programme of the much-loved children's series Jackanory, The Hobbit was transmitted over two weeks and 10 episodes in 1979. Read by Bernard Cribbins, Jan Francis, Maurice Denham and David Wood, this rare audio soundtrack is sure to offer a treat for all fans of J.