J. R. R. Tolkien 2 Books Collection Set (Battle of Maldon, History of the Hobbit)

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Titles in the Set:

The History of the Hobbit:
The Battle of Maldon:

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ISBN:9782269186725

The History of the Hobbit:

The Hobbit was first published on 21 September 1937. Like its sequel, The Lord of the Rings, it is a story that ‘grew in the telling’, and many characters and plot threads in the published text are quite different from the story J.R.R. Tolkien first wrote to read aloud to his young sons as one of their ‘fireside reads’.Together in one volume, The History of the Hobbit presents the complete text of the unpublished manuscript of The Hobbit, accompanied by John Rateliff’s lively and informative account of how the book came to be written and published. Recording the numerous changes made to the story both before and after publication, he examines – chapter by chapter – why those changes were made and how they reflect Tolkien’s ever-growing concept of Middle-earth.

The Battle of Maldon:

In 991 AD, vikings attacked an Anglo-Saxon defence-force led by their duke, Beorhtnoth, resulting in brutal fighting along the banks of the river Blackwater, near Maldon in Essex. The attack is widely considered one of the defining conflicts of tenth-century England, due to it being immortalised in the poem, The Battle of Maldon.Written shortly after the battle, the poem now survives only as a 325-line fragment, but its value to today is incalculable, not just as an heroic tale but in vividly expressing the lost language of our ancestors and celebrating ideals of loyalty and friendship.

About the Author:

J.R.R. Tolkien, the famed author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was an English writer, poet, and philologist known as the 'father of modern fantasy'. While the name Alcott appears in search results, it likely refers to a different author (like Louisa May Alcott of Little Women fame), as Tolkien's life, works, influences (like C.S. Lewis), and family (wife Edith, son Christopher) are well-documented on Wikipedia, focusing on his love for languages and medieval literature shaping Middle-earth, not direct association with Alcott. 

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