J.R.R. Tolkien "The Book Of Lost Tales" and "Unfinished Tales of of Numenor and Middle-Earth" Limited Edition 3-Volume Matching Set [Sealed]

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Easton Press, Norwalk, CT.  J.R.R. Tolkien "The Book of Lost Tales" (Part One and Two), "Unfinished Tales of of Numenor and Middle Earth" Limited Edition 3-volume matching set. Uniform forest green leather bindings with distinct cover designs and decorations. Luxuriously bound in full genuine leather. As New, sealed without any flaws.

Three volume set in one shipment:

1) The Book of Lost Tales (Part One), Edited by Christopher Tolkien 

2) The Book of Lost Tales (Part Two), Edited by Christopher Tolkien

3) Unfinished Tales of of Numenor and Middle Earth, Edited with introduction, commentary, index, and maps by Christopher Tolkien.

J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Book of Lost Tales and Unfinished Tales matching leather-bound sets from Easton Press are highly sought after because they combine premium craftsmanship with the intense demand of dedicated Tolkien book collectors.

Craftsmanship and Materials

• Real Leather: The books are bound in genuine, high-grade leather.
• 22kt Gold Accents: The cover designs and hubbed spines feature deep, inlaid 22kt gold stamping.
• Archival Quality: Pages are printed on acid-neutral paper with gilded edges, designed to resist aging and last for generations.
• Luxury Details: Each volume includes satin ribbon page markers, specialized moire fabric endsheets, and Smyth-sewn binding rather than cheap glue.

The Tolkien Collector Market

• Matching Shelf Appeal: Collectors value uniform aesthetic sets that look impressive on a shelf alongside other fine-edition Middle-earth volumes. 
• Controlled Availability: Easton Press frequently rotates, limits, or temporarily discontinues specific fantasy titles, driving up secondary market urgency and FOMO (fear of missing out). 
• Niche Lore Value: The Book of Lost Tales (Parts 1 and 2) and Unfinished Tales contain foundational, deeper mythos for hardcore fans who have already moved past The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

The Book of Lost Tales

The Book of Lost Tales is a collection of early stories by the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien, published as the first two volumes of Christopher Tolkien's 12-volume series The History of Middle-earth, in which he presents and analyses the manuscripts of those stories, which were the earliest form (begun in 1917) of the complex fictional myths that would eventually form The Silmarillion. Each of the Tales is followed by notes and a detailed commentary by Christopher Tolkien.

For publication the book was split into two volumes: The Book of Lost Tales 1 (1983) and The Book of Lost Tales 2 (1984), but this is simply an editorial division. Each volume contains several "Lost Tales".

Unfinished Tales of of Numenor and Middle Earth

Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth is a collection of stories and essays by J. R. R. Tolkien that were never completed during his lifetime, but were edited by his son Christopher Tolkien and published in 1980. Many of the tales within are retold in The Silmarillion, albeit in modified forms; the work also contains a summary of the events of The Lord of the Rings told from a less personal perspective.

The collection received a cautious welcome from scholars and critics. They noted Christopher Tolkien's warning that a good knowledge of the background was needed to gain much from the stories. Others noted that the stories were among the best of Tolkien's writing; Warren Dunn expressed a wish for the whole of the history in such a format. The book, with its commentary, was commercially successful, indicating a market for more of Tolkien's work and leading to the 12-volume The History of Middle-earth.

On "The Quest of Erebor" in Part Three, Christine Barkley comments that the perspective is the knowledgeable Gandalf's, contrasting sharply with the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins's narrower point of view in The Hobbit. Peter Jackson used the story to enrich the narrative for his 2013 film The Desolation of Smaug.

Features

Includes all the classic Easton Press qualities:

* Premium Leather
* Silk Moire Endleaves
* Distinctive Cover Design
* Hubbed Spine, Accented in Real 22KT Gold
* Satin Ribbon Page Marker
* Gilded Page Edges
* Long-lasting, High Quality Acid-neutral Paper
* Smyth-sewn Pages for Strength and Durability
* Beautiful Illustrations

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.