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A Sociedade do Anel começa no Condado, a região rural do oeste da Terra-média onde vivem os diminutos e pacatos hobbits. Bilbo Bolseiro, um dos raros aventureiros desse povo, cujas peripécias foram contadas em O Hobbit, resolve ir embora do Condado e deixa sua considerável herança nas mãos de seu jovem parente Frodo.

Bilbo Bolseiro era um dos mais respeitáveis hobbits de todo o Condado até que, um dia, o mago Gandalf bate à sua porta. A partir de então, toda sua vida pacata e campestre soprando anéis de fumaça com seu belo cachimbo começa a mudar. Ele é convocado a participar de uma aventura por ninguém menos do que Thorin Escudo-de-Carvalho, um príncipe do poderoso povo dos Anãos.

"O Silmarillion" é um relato dos Dias Antigos da Primeira Era do mundo criado por J.R.R. Tolkien. É a história longínqua para a qual os personagens de "O Senhor dos Anéis" e "O Hobbit" olham para trás, e em cujos eventos alguns deles, como Elrond e Galadriel, tomaram parte. Os contos de "O Silmarillion" se passam em uma época em que Morgoth, o Primeiro Senhor Sombrio, habitava a Terra-média, e os Altos-Elfos guerreavam contra ele pela recuperação das Silmarils, as joias que continham a pura luz de Valinor.

Um ataque-surpresa pôs fim à jornada conjunta da Sociedade do Anel. De um lado, o trio formado pelo elfo Legolas, pelo anão Gimli e por Aragorn, herdeiro da realeza dos Homens, tenta resgatar os jovens hobbits Merry e Pippin, capturados por guerreiros-órquicos. A busca pelos companheiros perdidos levará os três a confrontar os cavaleiros do reino de Rohan e o mago renegado Saruman, que também deseja o Um Anel para si.

In a sleepy village in the Shire, a young hobbit is entrusted with an immense task. He must make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ruling Ring of Power - the only thing that prevents the Dark Lord Sauron’s evil dominion. Thus begins J. R. R. Tolkien’s classic tale of adventure, which continues in The Two Towers and The Return of the King.

Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of 13 dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on a journey ‘there and back again’. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon....

A guerra entre os Povos Livres da Terra-média e Sauron, o Senhor Sombrio da terra de Mordor, chega a seu clímax neste terceiro volume do romance O Senhor dos Anéis. As batalhas grandiosas que estão prestes a acontecer, no entanto, são apenas o pano de fundo para o verdadeiro drama: a missão quase suicida dos hobbits Frodo e Sam, que tentam destruir o Um Anel, fonte do poder de Sauron, infiltrando-se no coração do território do Inimigo.

The forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion tells the earlier history of Middle-earth, recounting the events of the First and Second Ages, and introducing some of the key characters, such as Galadriel, Elrond, Elendil and the Dark Lord, Sauron. The tales of The Silmarillion are set...

The company of the Ring is torn asunder. Frodo and Sam continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin - alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go. This continues the classic tale begun in The Fellowship of the Ring, which reaches its awesome climax in The Return of the King.

The armies of the Dark Lord are massing as his evil shadow spreads even wider. Men, Dwarves, Elves and Ents unite forces to battle against the Dark. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam struggle further into Mordor in their heroic quest to destroy the One Ring. The devastating conclusion of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic tale of adventure, begun in The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers.

Part One, The Fellowship of the Ring, introduces us to Frodo Baggins. With his uncle Bilbo having mysteriously disappeared, Frodo finds himself in possession of a simple gold ring that has great and evil power. It is the Ruling Ring, taken long ago from the Dark Lord, Sauron, who now seeks to possess it again. Frodo must do everything he can to prevent this, and with the help of Gandalf the wizard and a band of loyal companions he begins a perilous journey across Middle-earth.

Painstakingly restored from Tolkien’s manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, the epic tale of The Children of Húrin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, dragons and Dwarves, eagles and Orcs, and the...

Una historia de amor fantástico del creador de la Tierra Media. El relato de Beren y Lúthien era, o se convirtió, en un elemento esencial en la evolución de El Silmarillion, los mitos y leyendas de la Primera Edad del Mundo concebidos por J. R. R. Tolkien. El autor escribió el relato durante el año siguiente a su regreso de Francia y de la batalla del Somme a finales de 1916.

J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one volume. J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a ‘dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told’. And for many years readers would need to be...

Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring and provides those who have read The Lord of the Rings with a whole collection of background and new stories from the 20th century’s most acclaimed popular author.

Gondolin, beautiful but undiscoverable, is central to the enmity of two of the greatest powers in the world. Morgoth of the uttermost evil seeks in vain to discover the marvellously hidden city of his Elven enemies, while the gods in Valinor refuse to support Ulmo Lord of Waters' designs to protect it. Into this world comes Tuor, cousin of Túrin, and guided unseen by Ulmo he sets out on the fearful journey to Gondolin to warn them of their coming doom.

The complete unabridged audiobook of J.R.R Tolkien's The Silmarillion. 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.

Continuing the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the first part of Tolkien’s epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, available as a complete and unabridged audiobook. 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.

The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son was originally published in the 1953 edition of Essays and Studies. In December of that year, J.R.R. Tolkien took possession of a reel-to-reel tape recorder and, some time during the first few months of 1954, decided to record ‘the whole thing on tape’ as a way of ‘testing’ the performative quality of the dramatic dialogue between Tídwald and Torhthelm.

Apesar de ser universalmente conhecido pelo seu magnum opus, O Senhor dos Anéis, J.R.R. Tolkien deixou um legado literário que vai muito além da Terra-média. Árvore e folha é uma eclética, provocativa e instigante compilação de quatro trabalhos que refletem a diversidade da imaginação de Tolkien, seu profundo conhecimento da história inglesa e a amplitude de seu talento como criador de ficções modernas. A obra une de maneira mágica uma palestra, um conto, um poema mítico e outro de cunho histórico e reflexivo.