J.R.R. Tolkien "The War Of The Jewels" and "Morgoth's Ring" Limited Edition, 2-Volume Leather-Bound Collector's Set [Sealed]

A stunning two-volume set of J.R.R. Tolkien's cosmology that eventually would become The Silmarillion – including Morgoth’s destruction of the Trees of Light and his flight from Valinor bearing the stolen Silmarils.

Easton Press, Norwalk, CT. J.R.R. Tolkien. J.R.R. Tolkien "The War Of The Jewels" and "Morgoth's Ring" Limited Edition 2-Volume Set. Uniform green leather bindings with distinct cover designs and decorations. Luxuriously bound in full genuine leather. As New, sealed in the original shrink-wrap without any flaws. 5 1/2" x 9 1/8" 2 volumes.

Forming the background for The Lord of the Rings by the immortal fantasy author…

With premium leather bindings, hubbed spines accented with true 22kt gold, and gilded page ends, these luxurious volumes are the state-of-the-art in fine bookmaking.

Two volume set in one shipment: 

1. THE WAR OF THE JEWELS
2. MORGOTH'S RING

The War Of The Jewels

The War of the Jewels (1994) is the 11th volume of Christopher Tolkien's series The History of Middle-earth, analyzing the unpublished manuscripts of his father J. R. R. Tolkien. It is the second of two volumes—Morgoth's Ring being the first—to explore the later 1951 Silmarillion drafts (those written after the completion of The Lord of the Rings).

Morgoth's Ring

Morgoth's Ring (1993) is the tenth volume of Christopher Tolkien's 12-volume series The History of Middle-earth in which he analyses the unpublished manuscripts of his father J. R. R. Tolkien. It contains "The Annals of Aman" which presents the history of Arda with year-by-year entries like real-world annals, and "Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth" which presents a discussion of death and immortality between an Elf and a human.

Reviewers welcomed the volume, noting that it reveals Tolkien exploring hard questions about his mythology, and struggling to reconcile them, to the extent that he unsuccessfully attempts a destructive reworking of the entire cosmology of Arda. The issues covered include death, immortality, and the extent to which Tolkien embodied Christianity in Middle-earth; evil and the origin of Orcs; and Tolkien's attempts to replace his mythology with "feigned history".

J.R.R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and a Fellow of Pembroke College, both at the University of Oxford. He then moved within the same university to become the Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College, and held these positions from 1945 until his retirement in 1959. Tolkien was a close friend of C. S. Lewis, a co-member of the informal literary discussion group The Inklings. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 March 1972.

After Tolkien's death, his son Christopher published a series of works based on his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including The Silmarillion. These, together with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, form a connected body of tales, poems, fictional histories, invented languages, and literary essays about a fantasy world called Arda and, within it, Middle-earth. Between 1951 and 1955, Tolkien applied the term legendarium to the larger part of these writings.

While many other authors had published works of fantasy before Tolkien, the tremendous success of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings ignited a profound interest in the fantasy genre and ultimately precipitated an avalanche of new fantasy books and authors. As a result, he has been popularly identified as the "father" of modern fantasy literature and is widely regarded as one of the most influential authors of all time.