Tolkien J R R Catherine Mcilwaine (6 results)

paperback. Condition: New. Language: ENG.

Large Hardcover. Condition: Fine. New. Still in shrink wrap. 2018 Large Hardcover. 416 pp. The range of J. R. R. Tolkien?s talents is remarkable. Not only was he an accomplished linguist and philologist, as well as a scholar of Anglo-Saxon and medieval literature and Norse folklore, but also a skillful illustrator and storyteller. Drawing on these talents, he created a universe which is for many readers as real as the physical world they inhabit daily. Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth explores the huge creative endeavor behind Tolkien?s enduring popularity. Lavishly illustrated with three hundred images of his manuscripts, drawings, maps, and letters, the book traces the creative process behind his most famous literary works?The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion?and reproduces personal photographs and private papers, many of which have never been seen before in print. Six essays introduce the reader to the person of J. R. R. Tolkien and to main themes in his life and work, including the influence of northern languages and legends on the creation of his own legendarium; his concept of ?Faërie? as an enchanted literary realm; the central importance of his invented languages in his fantasy writing; his visual imagination and its emergence in his artwork; and the encouragement he derived from his close friend C. S. Lewis and their literary group the Inklings. The book brings together the largest collection of original Tolkien material ever assembled in a single volume. Drawing on the extensive archives of the Tolkien collections at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, which stretch to more than five hundred boxes, and Marquette University, Milwaukee, as well as private collections, this hugely ambitious and exquisitely produced book draws together the worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien ? scholarly, literary, creative, and domestic?offering a rich and detailed understanding and appreciation of this extraordinary author. This landmark publication, produced on the occasion of a major exhibition at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford in 2018 and at the Morgan Library in New York in 2019, is set to become a standard work in the literature on J. R. R. Tolkien.

Condition: New. Idioma/Language: Español. Esta obra es un recorrido inédito por los documentos que el propio J. R. R. Tolkien creó de su puño y letra al gestar la Tierra Media. Las notas y comentarios escritas de puño y letra del autor te llevarán a un viaje apasionante por su mente para descifrar el proceso creativo de sus obras. *** Nota: Los envíos a España peninsular, Baleares y Canarias se realizan a través de mensajería urgente. No aceptamos pedidos con destino a Ceuta y Melilla.

Cartoné. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Nuevo. 01. CÓMO SE CREÓ LA TIERRA MEDIA? Cualquier ávido lector que haya sucumbido a los encantos del Silmarillion conoce el poder de los Valar, los primeros reinos Elfos y las terribles guerras contra el oscuro Melkor pero Cómo llegaron el reino de Lothlórien, Gondolin, La Comarca o El Bosque de Fangorn hasta nuestras manos? Para saberlo es necesario hacer un viaje a través de la mente de uno de los autores de fantasíamás grandes de todos los tiempos, J.R.R.TOLKIEN, y para ello presentamos: Tolkien: Viaje por la Tierra Media En este volumen, realizado a partir de la mayor exposición que ha habido sobre los originales de Tolkien en la Biblioteca nacional de Francia, donde se pudieron ver por primera vez archivos inéditos de Oxford, disfrutaremos de una especial travesía nunca antes realizada por el más conocido mundo de fantasía. El libro consta de más de 200 ilustraciones de sus manuscritos, mapas, bocetos, borradores, dibujos y acuarelas del autor dignas de completar la colección de un museo. Además, presenta un retrato de la época de J. R. R. TOLKIEN, su vida y su amor por las lenguas en un conjunto de fotogra. LIBRO.

Oversize hardcover. First edition (& 1st printing). Based on the exhibitions on the life and work of JRR Tolkien at the Bodleian Library in 2018 and the Morgan Library & Museum in 2019. This Collector s Edition includes seven unique facsimile items of JRR Tolkien s work printed on fine Italian paper, along with a six-page illustrated guide describing and interpreting each facsimile item, all in a custom envelope. . LIMITED EDITION: ''The Collector s Edition'', limited to 675 numbered copies, signed by Priscilla Tolkien in traycase. Fine copy in pictorial boards, (as issued without dustjacket) in traycase (as new).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The Collector's Edition of 'Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth' published by The Bodleian Library, UK in 2018 in conjunction with the landmark exhibitions on the life and work of JRR Tolkien at the Bodleian Library in 2018 and the Morgan Library & Museum in 2019. The BOOK is as new Fine condition and is still in its original cardboard packaging. Number '135' of only 675 copies issued. Bound in Cialux and published in a custom-made presentation box, the book is printed with special endpapers reproducing Tolkien's drawing of the 'Elvenking's Gate'. The Collector's Edition contains seven unique facsimiles items of JRR Tolkien's work printed on fine Italian paper. These include Tolkien's painting of the dust jacket for The Hobbit, reproduced for the first time on both sides, revealing Tolkien's plea to his first publisher, Stanley Unwin, to print the sun in red and culminating in the underlined instructions to his printer on the reverse of the painting 'IGNORE RED'. Also included is a drawing of the 'Tower of Orthanc', drawn on the back of an Oxford undergraduate student's exam paper on Chaucer which Tolkien has cancelled with diagonal lines, as well as a manuscript page from 'The Lord of the Rings' describing and illustrating 'Shelob's Lair'. Both of these have never before been reproduced on both sides. For over 23 years, Tolkien wrote and illustrated Christmas cards and letters for his children, complete with beautifully addressed envelopes and exquisitely painted postage stamps. Included here is the Father Christmas letter and envelope for 1936, addressed to Tolkien's youngest children, Christopher and Priscilla, and bearing a jewel-like stamp from the North Pole, together with the accompanying Christmas card depicting Polar Bear's bath (which overruns and risks wetting the children's gift on the floor below). In the bottom section of the image, Polar Bear instructs the elves on the unique number set aside for every child, ensuring that Christmas gifts are matched and delivered to the correct recipient. Finally, a facsimile of the newly discovered map drawn by Christopher Tolkien, with annotations in J.R.R. Tolkien's hand (including notes such as 'Hobbiton is assumed to be approx. at the latitude of Oxford', 'Minas Tirith is about the latitude of Ravenna'), from which Pauline Baynes painted her poster map of Middle-earth. Each facsimile item is reproduced from newly commissioned photography, faithfully reproducing the originals kept in an underground safe in the Bodleian Library. Presented in a custom-made envelope bearing Tolkien's cipher, they are accompanied by a six-page illustrated guide describing and interpreting each facsimile item. Every copy of the Collector's Edition includes a limitation page signed by Priscilla Tolkien and hand-numbered, and making this an exceptional, truly unique edition for collectors. Catherine McIlwaine is the Tolkien Archivist at The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. The images are of this numbered copy, which has only been opened to enable images to be taken. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.