Godina izdanja: 2008
ISBN: 9780007309375
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

J.R.R. TOLKIEN
THE CHILDREN OF HURIN
THE SILMARILLION
UNFINISHED TALES
KOMPLET OD TRI KNJIGE NA ENGLESKOM JEZIKU U ZAŠTITNOJ KUTIJI
MEKI POVEZ
18.1 x 11.6 x 8.8 cm
NOVO NEKORIŠĆENO
Available for the first time as a set, this boxed collection of paperbacks includes The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales and the international number one besteller, The Children of Hurin. It is a legendary time long before The Lord of the Rings, and Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwells in the vast fortress of Angband in the North; and within the shadow of the fear of Angband, and the war waged by Morgoth against the Elves, the fates of Turin and his sister NiA`nor will be tragically entwined. Their brief and passionate lives are dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bears them as the children of Hurin, the man who dared to defy him to his face. Against them Morgoth sends his most formidable servant, Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire, in an attempt to fulfil the curse of Morgoth, and destroy the children of Hurin. Begun by J.R.R. Tolkien at the end of the First World War, The Children of Hurin 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.
Džon Ronald Ruel Tolkin (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) (3. januar 1892. – 2. septembar 1973) je bio profesor anglosaksonskog jezika na Oksfordskom univerzitetu u periodu od 1925. do 1945. godine, kao i profesor engleskog jezika i književnosti, takođe na Oksfordu, od 1945. do 1959. godine. Bavio se pisanjem epske fantastike, fantastike uopšte i poezije tokom celog života, i kroz njih je doživeo međunarodnu slavu.

Van naučnih krugova, najpoznatiji je kao autor romana „Gospodar prstenova”, zatim njegovog prethodnika, „Hobita”, kao i velikog broja posthumno izdatih knjiga o istoriji zamišljenog sveta zvanog Arda, najviše jednog njenog kontinenta, Srednje zemlje, gde se odigrava radnja ova njegova dva najpoznatija romana. Velika popularnost i uticaj ovih dela su ustoličila Tolkina kao oca žanra moderne visoke fantastike (engl. High-fantasy).

Što se tiče naučnih krugova, bio je visoko uvaženi leksikograf i stručak za anglosaksonski i staronordijski jezik. Pripadao je književnoj diskusionoj grupi The Inklings i bio je blizak prijatelj sa K.S. Luisom (C.S. Lewis).



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