Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return. He becomes a thief for a band of dwarves and soon finds himself in the midst of a war with the evil goblins and wargs, and is forced to make a decision between the call of duty and the pull of the simple life.

A poem from "Lord of the Rings" and primary illustrations follow the hobbit Bilbo Baggins on his final journey to the Grey Havens, while secondary illustrations at the bottom of each page depict his first journey on adventure as recounted in "The Hobbit."

A number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, The Silmarillion is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work whose origins stretch back to a time long before The Hobbit. Tolkien considered The Silmarillion his most important work, and, though it was published last and posthumously, this great collection of tales and legends clearly sets the stage for all his other writing. The story of the creation of the world...

Par un matin pas tout à fait comme les autres, une visite du vieux magicien Gandalf va changer la vie de Bilbo Baggins... Voici le récit de leur quête à travers la Terre du Milieu. Leur but ? Arracher au dragon Smaug les trésors du Royaume perdu d'Erebor. Mais le chemin est long et semé d'embûches. Bilbo doit affronter trolls, gobelins et araignées géantes. Sans parler de Gollum, dont le précieux anneau détient de terribles pouvoirs. Et...