Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World
By: Verlyn Flieger
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
J. R. R. Tolkien is perhaps best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but it is in The S…
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1. The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary
By: Peter Gilliver , E.S.C. Weiner , Jeremy Marshall
4.11
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
Tolkien's first job, on returning home from World War I, was as an assistant on the staff of the OE… read more
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- reference
- literary criticism
2. How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
By: Thomas Cahill
3.81
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
From the fall of Rome to the rise of Charlemagne - the "dark ages" - learning, scholarship, and cul… read more
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"Each one of us will die, naked and alone, on some battlefield not of our own choosing."-Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
"Like the Jews before them, the Irish enshrined literacy as their central religious act."-Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
"By the mid-seventeenth century, the visible image has assumed far greater reality than the invisible thought."-Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
"Well, they may not be civilized, but they certainly are confident—and this confidence is one of the open-handed pleasures of early Irish literature."-Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
3. The History of the Hobbit, Part One: Mr. Baggins
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , John D. Rateliff
3.81
Format: 467 pages, Hardcover
First published in 1938, The Hobbit is a story that “grew in the telling,” and many characters and … read more
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4. Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World
By: Verlyn Flieger
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
J. R. R. Tolkien is perhaps best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but it is in The S… read more
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- philosophy
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5. Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien
2.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Unfinished Talesis a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth t… read more
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6. Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien
3.78
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
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7. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
By: Colin Woodard
4.56
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red stat… read more
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8. Bilbo's Last Song
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Pauline Baynes
4.50
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
Bilbo's Last Songis considered by many to be Tolkien's epilogue to his classic work The Lord of the… read more
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9. Farmer Giles of Ham
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Wayne G. Hammond , Christina Scull
3.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The editors of the best-selling rediscovered Tolkien novel Roverandom present an expanded fiftieth … read more
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10. J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
By: Humphrey Carpenter
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
The authorized biography of the creator of Middle-earth. In the decades since his death in Septembe… read more
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11. The Silmarillion
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien , Ted Nasmith
4.01
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien’s world. It is the an… read more
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"Nightingales sang about her wherever she went."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
"The dawn is brief and the day full often belies its promise."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
"All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
"No ames demasiado la obra de tus manos ni las invenciones de tu corazón."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
12. Letters from Father Christmas
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Baillie Tolkien
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R. Tolkien's ch… read more
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13. The Story of Kullervo
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Verlyn Flieger
4.04
Format: 176 pages, ebook
The world first publication of a previously unknown work of fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells … read more
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14. The Book of Lost Tales, Part One (The History of Middle-Earth, #1)
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien
2.65
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
The Book of Lost Tales 1 xxi, 345pp. THE BOOK OF LOST TALES, I, stands at the beginning of the enti… read more
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15. Tree and Leaf: Includes Mythopoeia and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
2.65
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
This volume is a provocative and entertaining collection of works which reveals the diversity of J.… read more
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16. J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
By: Tom Shippey
3.99
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
Recent polls have consistently declared that J.R.R. Tolkien is "the most influential author of the … read more
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17. Tales from the Perilous Realm
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
4.03
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
'Four classic tales from the author of The Hobbit The fat and unheroic Farmer Giles of Ham is calle… read more
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"God is the Lord, of angels, and of men... and of elves. Legend and History have met and fused"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm
"Bet visą tą laiką Makaliukas Klajūnas laukė pasirodant paštininkės Klyksnės su naujienomis iš žemės (net maži šuniukai žino, kad tai dažniausiai žmogžudystės ir futbolo rungtynių rezultatai, bet kart…"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm
"He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling,…"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm
"Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either blunt the appetite for, nor obscure the perception of, scientific veracity. On the con…"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm
18. History of the Peloponnesian War
By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner
3.94
Format: 648 pages, Paperback
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more
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"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
19. Tolkien on Fairy-stories
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Verlyn Flieger , Douglas A. Anderson
3.95
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
J.R.R. Tolkien's . Contained within is an introduction to Tolkien's original 1939 lecture and the … read more
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20. J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Wayne G. Hammond , Christina Scull
3.76
Format: 85 pages, Paperback
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) renowned author of THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS and THE SILMARILLIO… read more
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21. The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
By: Humphrey Carpenter , J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
'...If you wanted to go on from the end of The Hobbit I think the ring would be your inevitable cho… read more
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