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  • The Tower and the Ruin

    J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation

    by Michael DC Drout ...
    **A leading scholar draws on fifty years of reading and studying J.R.R. Tolkien to explain how he created an entire world.Winner of the Tolkien Society Award for Best BookWinner of the Mythopoeic Society Award in Inklings Studies**No writer has surpassed the epic achievement of J.R.R. Tolkien, who spent decades refining his Middle-earth—a world that has felt so real to so many readers that it is ... Read more

    $35.79 CAD

  • Drout's Quick and Easy Old English

    by Michael D.C. Drout, Bruce D. Gilchrist, Rachel Kapelle ...
    Michael DC Drout has now transformed his classic "King Alfred's Grammar" into a comprehensive guide for learning Old English. Appropriate for students and enthusiasts alike, Drout's Quick and Easy Old English presents the basics of the language in an accessible form. Even the most novice student can learn to read the classics of medieval literature in their original language with this system.Drout ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beowulf Unlocked

    New Evidence from Lexomic Analysis

    by Allison Dennett, Yvette Kisor, Michael D.C. Drout, Leah Smith, Natasha Piirainen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The most original and ground-breaking work on Beowulf in several decades, this book uses “lexomic” methods that blend computer-assisted statistical analysis with traditional approaches to reveal new and surprising information about the construction and sources of the greatest surviving Old English poem. Techniques of cluster analysis identify patterns of vocabulary distribution that indicate ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

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    The Tower and the Ruin

    J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation

    by Michael D. C. Drout ...
    Narrated by Michael D. C. Drout ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 30 min

    A leading scholar draws on fifty years of reading and studying J.R.R. Tolkien to explain how he created an entire world.No writer has surpassed the epic achievement of J.R.R. Tolkien, who spent decades refining his Middle-earth—a world that has felt so real to so many readers that it is almost impossible to imagine that any single person could have simply created it, seemingly out of thin air. In ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Fall of Númenor

    and Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-earth

    by J.R.R. Tolkien ...
    Darkness Will Bind Them… watch The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 on Prime VideoJ.R.R. Tolkien’s writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one volume.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 ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Fall of Gondolin

    by J. R. R. Tolkien ...
    In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth of the uttermost evil, unseen in this story but ruling over a vast military power from his fortress of Angband. Deeply opposed to Morgoth is Ulmo, second in might only to Manwë, chief of the Valar.Central to this enmity of the gods is the city of Gondolin, beautiful but undiscoverable. It was built ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Veiled Throne

    by Ken Liu ...
    Series series The Dandelion Dynasty
    With the invasion of Dara complete, and the Wall of Storms breached, the world has opened to new possibilities for the gods and peoples of both empires as the sweeping saga of the award-winning Dandelion Dynasty continues in this third book of the “magnificent fantasy epic” (NPR).Princess Théra, once known as Empress Üna of Dara, entrusted the throne to her younger brother in order to journey to ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Sauron Defeated

    by Christopher Tolkien, J. R. R. Tolkien ...
    Series Book 9 - The History of Middle-earth
    The final part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, an enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes and includes the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety.In the first section of Sauron Defeated Christopher Tolkien completes his fascinating study of The Lord of the Rings. Beginning with Sam’s rescue of Frodo from the Tower of Cirith Ungol, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Return of the Shadow

    by Christopher Tolkien, J. R. R. Tolkien ...
    Series Book 6 - The History of Middle-earth
    The first part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, an enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes and includes the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety.The Return of the Shadow is the story of the first part of the history of the creation of The Lord of the Rings, a fascinating study of Tolkien’s great masterpiece, from its inception to ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Nature of Middle-earth

    by J. R. R. Tolkien ...
    First ever publication of J.R.R. Tolkien’s final writings on Middle-earth, covering a wide range of subjects and perfect for those who have read and enjoyed The Silmarillion, The Lord of the Rings, Unfinished Tales, and The History of Middle-earth, and want to learn more about Tolkien’s magnificent world.It is well known that J.R.R. Tolkien published The Hobbit in 1937 and The Lord of the Rings in ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Saga Land

    by Kari Gislason, Richard Fidler ...
    'I adored this book - a wondrous compendium of Iceland's best sagas' - Hannah KentA new friendship. An unforgettable journey. A beautiful and bloody history.This is Iceland as you've never read it before ...Broadcaster Richard Fidler and author Kári Gíslason are good friends. They share a deep attachment to the sagas of Iceland - the true stories of the first Viking families who settled on that ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Morgoth’s Ring

    by Christopher Tolkien, J. R. R. Tolkien ...
    Series Book 10 - The History of Middle-earth
    The first of two companion volumes which documents the later writing of The Silmarillion, Tolkien’s epic tale of war.After The Lord of the Rings was at last achieved, J R R Tolkien turned his attention once again to ‘the Matter of the Elder Days’. The text of the Annals of Aman, the ‘Blessed Land’ in the far West, is given in full; while in writings hitherto unknown is seen the nature of the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD