“ . . . spirited productions . . . stirring music . . .”
      —The Washington Post

“This collection . . . is a masterpiece.”
      —The Courier

J. R. R. TOLKIEN was a writer and university professor. In addition to The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien's published fiction includes The Silmarillion, and other posthumously published books, which taken together is a connected body of work about an imagined—and much-beloved by readers—world called Middle Earth.