Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Tolkien’s life and works
* Detailed introductions to the major texts
* All the Middle-earth works, with individual contents tables
* Features rare short stories
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* The complete poetry, arranged in chronological order
* Easily locate the poems you want to read
* Includes rare essays and lectures – available in no other collection
* Tolkien’s rare autobiographical piece ‘Tolkien on Tolkien’– first time in digital print
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres
Please note: some posthumous works, including ‘The Silmarillion’ and the ‘Beowulf’ translation, cannot appear due to copyright restrictions. When new works enter the public domain, they will be added to the eBook as a free update.
CONTENTS:
The Middle-earth Works
The Hobbit (1937)
The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)
The Two Towers (1954)
The Return of the King (1955)
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962)
The Road Goes Ever On (1967)
Bilbo’s Last Song (1974)
Guide to the Names in ‘The Lord of the Rings’ (1975)
Miscellaneous Middle-earth Works
Other Fiction
Roverandom (1925)
Leaf by Niggle (1945)
Farmer Giles of Ham (1949)
Smith of Wootton Major (1967)
The Father Christmas Letters (1976)
Mr. Bliss (1982)
The Translations
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1975)
Pearl (1975)
Sir Orfeo (1975)
The Old English “Exodus” Text (1981)
The Poetry
The Poems of J. R. R. Tolkien
The Non-Fiction
A Middle English Vocabulary (1922)
Introduction to ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’ (1925)
Some Contributions to Middle-English Lexicography (1925)
The Devil’s Coach-Horses (1925)
Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meidhad (1929)
A Secret Vice (1931)
The Name ‘Nodens’ (1932)
Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve’s Tale (1934)
Sigelwara Land (1934)
Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics (1937)
On Translating Beowulf (1940)
On Fairy-Stories (1947)
Middle English ‘Losenger’ (1951)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: W. P. Ker Memorial Lecture (1953)
The Death of Beorhtnoth (1953)
Ofermod (1953)
English and Welsh: O’Donnell Lecture (1955)
Valedictory Address to the University of Oxford (1959)
Prefatory Notice to ‘Ancrene Wisse’ (1962)
Introduction to ‘Tree and Leaf’ (1964)
Finn and Hengest (1982)
The Autobiographical Piece
Tolkien on Tolkien (1966)
Tolkien Bibliography
