O Senhor dos Anéis
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Synopsis
“A Sociedade do Anel começa no Condado, a região rural do oeste da Terra-média onde vivem os diminutos e pacatos hobbits. Bilbo Bolseiro, um dos raros aventureiros desse povo, cujas peripécias foram contadas em O Hobbit, resolve ir embora do Condado e deixa sua considerável herança nas mãos de seu jovem parente Frodo. O mais importante legado de Bilbo é o anel mágico que costumava usar para se tornar invisível. No entanto, o mago Gandalf, companheiro de aventuras do velho hobbit, revela a Frodo que o objeto é o Um Anel, a raiz do poder demoníaco de Sauron, o Senhor Sombrio, que deseja escravizar todos os povos da Terra-média. A única maneira de eliminar a ameaça de Sauron é destruir o Um Anel nas entranhas da própria montanha de fogo onde foi forjado. A revelação faz com que Frodo e seus companheiros hobbits Sam, Merry e Pippin deixem a segurança do Condado e iniciem uma perigosa jornada rumo ao leste. Ao lado de representantes dos outros Povos Livres que resistem ao Senhor Sombrio, eles formam a Sociedade do Anel.”
O Senhor dos Anéis - A Sociedade do Anel
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“Em O Retorno do Rei, acompanhamos o mago Gandalf e o hobbit Pippin em sua visita à majestosa cidade de Minas Tirith, que já foi o principal baluarte dos Homens contra a ameaça de Sauron, mas que está prestes a sucumbir diante da força avassaladora do Senhor Sombrio. Outros membros da Sociedade do Anel se juntam a Aragorn, herdeiro da longa linhagem dos reis de Minas Tirith, na tentativa de evitar que a antiga capital do reino de Gondor seja destruída. Nas fronteiras de Mordor, Sam resgata Frodo, e os dois hobbits partem para o último estágio de sua jornada rumo ao Monte da Perdição, uma jornada que testará os limites do corpo e da mente dos pequenos heróis. O livro inclui ainda numerosos apêndices, nos quais Tolkien explora detalhes da história, das línguas, dos alfabetos e até dos calendários de seu mundo ficcional.”
O Senhor dos Anéis: O retorno do rei
Synopsis
“Originally published from 1954 through 1956, J.R.R. Tolkien's richly complex series ushered in a new age of epic adventure storytelling. A philologist and illustrator who took inspiration from his work, Tolkien invented the modern heroic quest novel from the ground up, creating not just a world, but a domain, not just a lexicon, but a language, that would spawn countless imitators and lead to the inception of the epic fantasy genre. Today, THE LORD OF THE RINGS is considered "the most influential fantasy novel ever written." (THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FANTASY) During his travels across Middle-earth, the hobbit Bilbo Baggins had found the Ring. But the simple band of gold was far from ordinary; it was in fact the One Ring - the greatest of the ancient Rings of Power. Sauron, the Dark Lord, had infused it with his own evil magic, and when it was lost, he was forced to flee into hiding. But now Sauron's exile has ended and his power is spreading anew, fueled by the knowledge that his treasure has been found. He has gathered all the Great Rings to him, and will stop at nothing to reclaim the One that will complete his dominion. The only way to stop him is to cast the Ruling Ring deep into the Fire-Mountain at the heart of the land of Mordor--Sauron's dark realm. Fate has placed the burden in the hands of Frodo Baggins, Bilbo's heir...and he is resolved to bear it to its end.”
The Lord of the Rings
Synopsis
“1137 pages ; 20 cm”
The return of the king
Synopsis
“THE RETURN OF THE KING, which brings to a close the great epic of war and adventure begun in The Fellowship of the Ring and continued in The Two Towers, is the third and final part of J. R. R. Tolkien's masterpiece, "The Lord of the Rings." In these three books, which form one continuous narrative, Tolkien created the saga of the Hobbits of Middle-earth and the great War of the Rings. Praised by such writers and poets as W. H. Auden, Richard Hughes and C. S. Lewis, "The Lord of the Rings" - that special world of beauty and terror and meaning - holds a secure place among the books that will live. ---------- **Also contained in:** - [The Lord of the Rings][1] [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL27448W/The_Lord_of_the_Rings”
The Return of the King
Synopsis
“The Return of the Shadow is the first volume of the The History of The Lord of the Rings and the sixth volume of The History of Middle-earth. It is a history of the creation of The Lord of the Rings, a fascinating study of Tolkien's great masterpiece, from its inception to the end of the first volume, The Fellowship of the Ring. In The Return of the Shadow (the abandoned title of the first volume of The Lord of the Rings) Christopher Tolkien describes, with full citation of the earliest notes, outline plans, and narrative drafts, the intricate evolution of The Fellowship of the Ring and the gradual emergence of the conceptions that transformed what J.R.R. Tolkien for long believed would be a far shorter book, 'a sequel to The Hobbit'. The enlargement of Bilbo's 'magic ring' into the supremely potent and dangerous Ruling Ring of the Dark Lord is traced and the precise moment is seen when, in an astonishing and unforeseen leap in the earliest narrative, a Black Rider first rode into the Shire, his significance still unknown. The character of the hobbit called Trotter (afterwards Strider or Aragorn) is developed while his indentity remains an absolute puzzle, and the suspicion only very slowly becomes certainty that he must after all be a Man. The hobbits, Frodo's companions, undergo intricate permutations of name and personality, and other major figures appear in strange modes: a sinister Treebeard, in league with the Enemy, a ferocious and malevolent Farmer Maggot. The story in this book ends at the point where J.R.R. Tolkien halted in the story for a long time, as the Company of the Ring, still lacking Legolas and Gimli, stood before the tomb of Balin in the Mines of Moria. The Return of the Shadow is illustrated with reproductions of the first maps and notable pages from the earliest manuscripts.”
The Return of the Shadow