The Illustrated World of Tolkien - An Exquisite Reference Guide to Tolkien s World Artists his Vision

Informationen zum Autor David Day was born and brought up in Canada. He has published many books in the fields of poetry, ecology, natural history, fantasy and mythology and a number of award-winning children's books. His writing has also appeared in many magazines and anthologies. His enduring fascination with complex mythologies led him to J.R.R. Tolkien and Day is best known for his best-selling books on the life and works of that author. It all began with the publication of A Tolkien Bestiary (1979), a lavishly illustrated book that for the first time gave readers of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings some indication of the immense scope of Tolkien's mythology and cosmology. Day's subsequent books include Tolkien: The Illustrated Encyclopedia (1992), The World of Tolkien: The Mythological Sources of Lord of the Rings (2002). An Atlas of Tolkien and its companion volume, A Dictionary of Tolkien , were the first two books of a seven-volume reference library and more recently, The Illustrated World of Tolkien (2019) and The Illustrated World of Tolkien: The Second Age (2023), celebrate more than 40 years of Day's works and delve into the lesser-known parts of Tolkien's legendarium. Klappentext A visual celebration of the settings, battles, characters and monsters that feature across Tolkien's Middle-earth books. Gathers together artwork from Alan Lee, Allen Curless, Kip Ramussen, Lidia Postma, Ian Miller, Linda Garland and Tim Curless amongst others. Zusammenfassung A visual celebration of the vast lands, epic battles, formiddable beasts, heroes, peoples and armies of Tolkien's world.

Product details

• Authors: David Day
• Publisher: Conran Octopus Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.10.2019
• EAN: 9780753733806
• ISBN: 978-0-7537-3380-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 198 mm x 268 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy, ART / Subjects & Themes / Science Fiction & Fantasy, Art treatments & subjects, Literature: history & criticism, Literary essays, Fantasy art