The History of Middle-earth

本套精裝盒裝為紀念 Christopher Tolkien 文學編輯成就的首輯，收錄《The Silmarillion》《Unfinished Tales》以及《The Book of Lost Tales》上下兩冊，皆採首版內容重現，並附雙面書衣。《The Silmarillion》記述中土世界第一紀元的古老戰事，《Unfinished Tales》則補充從第一紀元到魔戒聖戰結束的背景與新故事。《The Book of Lost Tales》是整個中土傳說的雛形，記錄最早的神祇、精靈、矮人與魔物傳說。四冊合一，完整呈現 Christopher Tolkien 四十年整理父親手稿的開端，見證奇幻文學最壯闊的世界構築。

• 首度合刊四部重要中土作品

• 採雙面書衣與首版內容設計

• 展現 Christopher Tolkien 編輯生涯的起點

First in a series of hardback boxed sets celebrating the literary achievement of Christopher Tolkien, featuring double-sided dustjackets. Set 1 contains special editions of THE SILMARILLION and UNFINISHED TALES reproducing the first edition text, together with the two volumes of THE BOOK OF LOST TALES. The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien’s World.

It is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back, and in whose events some of them, such as Elrond and Galadriel, took part. The tales of The Silmarillion are set in an age when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle-Earth, and the High Elves made war upon him for the recovery of the Silmarils, the jewels containing the pure light of Valinor. Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth and the rise of Númenor in the Second Age to the end of the War of the Ring, and provides those who have read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with a whole collection of background and new stories from the twentieth century’s most acclaimed popular author.

The Book of Lost Tales stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor for the Tales were the first form of the myths and legends that came to be called The Silmarillion. Embedded in English legend and English association, they are set in the narrative frame of a great westward voyage over the Ocean by a mariner named Eriol to the lonely Isle where the Elves dwelt; from them he learned their true history, the Lost Tales of Elfinesse. In the two volumes of the Tales are found the earliest accounts of Gods and Elves, Dwarves, Balrogs and Orcs; of the Silmarils and the Two Trees of Valinor; of the geography and cosmology of Tolkien’s invented world.

Published together for the first time, these four books collect the beginning of Christopher Tolkien’s forty-year career devoted to presenting his father J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings on Middle-earth, a unique accomplishment that celebrates the greatest invented world in all of fantasy literature.