THE CHILDREN OF HURIN - J R R TOLKIEN - LARGE PRINT EDITION

Libro

Editorial	HARPER COLLINS
Edad	Adultos Jovenes
Idioma	Inglés Internacional
Nivel	.
Autor	TOLKIEN J. R. R.
ISBN	9780008108328
Peso ( kg )	0,483
Tipo	Soporte Físico
Año de edición	2015
Formato	Tapa rustica
Sinopsis	The large print edition of the epic tale ofThe Children of Hurinwill reunite fans ofThe Hobbitand The Lord of the Rings with Elves, dragons, Dwarves and Orcs, and the rich landscape and characters unique to Tolkien. Includes a colour frontispiece, fold-out map and full-colour plate section of all of Alan Lee's paintings. 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 which 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 Nienor 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 Nienor by lies of diabolic cunning and guile, and the curse of Morgoth was fulfilled. The earliest versions of this story by J.R.R. Tolkien go back to the end of the First World War and the years that followed; but long afterwards, when The Lord of the Rings was finished, he wrote it anew and greatly enlarged it in complexities of motive and character: it became the dominant story in his later work on Middle-earth. But he could not bring it to a final and finished form. In this book Christopher Tolkien has constructed, after long study of the manuscripts, a coherent narrative without any editorial invention. TOLKIEN J. R. R. Nació el 3 de enero en Bloemfontein en el Estado Libre de Orange. A principios de 1895, su madre, agotada por el clima, regresó a Inglaterra con Ronald y su hermano pequeño, Hilary. Tras el fallecimiento de su padre, a causa de unas fiebres reumáticas, él y su familia se establecieron brevemente en Sarehole, cerca de Birmingham. Esta hermosa zona rural causó una honda impresión en el joven Ronald, y sus efectos pueden verse en su escritura y en algunos de sus cuadros. Por su larga y prestigiosa carrera académica, es conocido por ser el creador de El Hobbit, El Señor de los Anillos y El Silmarillion. Sus obras se han traducido a más de cuarenta idiomas en todo elmundo. Fue nombrado caballero del imperio británico y doctor honoris causa por la Universidad de Oxford en 1972. Murió el 2 de septiembre de 1973 a los ochenta y un años.
Cantidad de páginas	352
Fecha Ingreso	01-01-0001