Summary: When a dangerous and powerful magic ring falls into his hands, a hobbit named Frodo gets caught up in an adventure. The mighty wizard Gandalf and a daring band of elves, dwarfs and warriors defend their enchanted land from the wicked sorcerer who would see it destroyed.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2001

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Summary: The epic conclusion to the adventures of Bilbo Baggins. The dragon Smaug rains his fiery wrath down upon the defenseless men, women, and children of Lake-town. Obsessed above all else with his reclaimed treasure, Thorin sacrifices friendship and honor to hoard it as Bilbo attempts to make him see reason.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1993

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Summary: The Fellowship divides to conquer, as Frodo and Sam, with the help and hindrance of Gollum, continue on their way to Mount Doom. Gandalf and Pippin ride to Minas Tirith to help defend Gondor, while Merry remains with Eowyn and the other Rohan fighters. Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli seek aid from those that live in the Cursed Mountains. All these battles have one ultimate goal in mind: to distract...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2004

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Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)

Summary: "It is well known that J.R.R. Tolkien published The Hobbit in 1937 and The Lord of the Rings in 1954-5. What may be less known is that he continued to write about Middle-earth in the decades that followed, right up until the years before his death in 1973. For him, Middle-earth was part of an entire world to be explored, and the writings in The Nature of Middle-earth reveal the journeys that he...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021

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Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grafton 2002

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Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1994

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Summary: "This film tells the story of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, English writer, poet, philologist and author of many stories, including most famously The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. It describes the importance of the rural English West Midlands, where Tolkien grew up, in shaping his literary imagination and how the ancient northern languages he studied and taught throughout his life influenced...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2009

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Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)

Summary: J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told. And for many years readers would need to be content with the tantalizing glimpses of it found within the pages of The Lord of the Rings and its appendices, including the forging of the Rings of Power, the building of the Barad-dûr and the rise of Sauron. It was...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow & Company 2022

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Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)

Summary: From the publisher. This is the third volume of the History of Middle-earth, which comprises heretofore unpublished manuscripts that were written over a period of many years before Tolkien's Simlarillion was published. Together, these volumes encompass an extraordinarily extensive body of material ornamenting and buttressing what must be the most fully realized world ever to spring from a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1994

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Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)

Summary: The first volume in the trilogy, tells of the fateful power of the One ring. All the members of the fellowship, hobbits, elves and wizards, are plunged into a clash between good and evil.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 1990

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Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)

Summary: The little hobbit and his trusty companion make a terrible journey to the heart of the land of the Shadow in a final reckoning with the power of Sauron.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1990

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Summary: Frodo, the hobbit, makes his way through the darkness to Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring. Aragon learns of his destiny as the true King and the others prepare for a massive battle that will determine the fate of Middle-Earth.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2004

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Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)

Summary: In the second volume of the trilogy, the fellowship has been forced to split up in order to destroy the ring and fight the first battle of the War of the ring.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1990

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Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)

Summary: From his creative attention to detail in these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy and clarity of his vision. It is as if he entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf and his men shaking out their mail shirts as they beached their ship on the coast of Denmark, listening to the rising anger of Beowulf at the taunting of Unferth, or looking up in amazement at Grendel's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014

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Summary: Join Frodo, Gandalf, Aragorn, and brave members of the Fellowship as they continue their quest to destroy the Ring of Power. As darkness descends on Middle-earth, a strange creature named Gollum leads the heroes to the Black Gates of Mordor. The rest of Middle-earth prepares for a battle that will decide the fate of all.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2003

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Summary: It explores the fundamental characteristics of myth, reality, ritual, and imagination, and tells the story of C.S. Lewis's intellectual journey into the realm of faith, which began at a meeting with fellow author J.R.R. Tolkien.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2017

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Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)

Summary: Beren was a mortal man, but Luthien was an immortal elf. Her father, a great elvish lord, in deep opposition to Beren, imposed on him an impossible task that he must perform before he might wed Luthien. To show something of the process whereby this legend of Middle-earth evolved over the years, [Christopher Tolkien] has told the story in his father's own words by giving, first, its original...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017

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Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1997

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Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1993

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