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Pub. Date
1987
Description
In this intriguing volume, Christopher Tolkeien traces the vivid history of Middle-earth, bring the land--its topography and ever-clashing forces--to the state readers recognize from the Lord of the Rings. Entertaining and informative, THE LOST ROAD AND OTHER WRITINGS shares fresh insights into the evolution of one of the world's most enduring fantasies.
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History of Middle-earth volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Description
The Book of Lost Tales: Part One. Embedded in English legend, they are set in the narrative frame of a great westward voyage over the Ocean by a mariner named Eriol (or Ælfwine) to Tol Eressea, the Lonely Isle, where elves dwelt; from him they learned their true history, the Lost Tales of Elfinesse.In these Tales are found the earliest accounts and original ideas of Gods and Elves, Dwarves, Balrogs, and Orcs; of the Silmarils and the Two Trees of...
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History of Middle-earth volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
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The Book of Lost Tales: Part TwoThe Book of Lost Tales is published in two volumes. The first contains the Tales of Valinor; and this second part includes Beren and Lúthien, Turin and the Dragon, and the only full narratives of the Necklace of the Dwarves and the Fall of Gondolin. Each tale is followed by a commentary, together with associated poems, and each volume contains extensive information on names and vocabulary of the earliest Elvish languages....
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History of Middle-earth volume 3
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Follows The Book of Lost Tales, parts 1 & 2, and precedes The Shaping of Middle-earth.
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History of Middle-earth volume 6
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
From the publisher. In this sixth volume of The History of Middle-earth the story reaches The Lord of the Rings. In The Return of the Shadow (an abandoned title for the first volume) Christopher Tolkien describes, with full citation of the earliest notes, outline plans, and narrative drafts, the intricate evolution of The Fellowship of the Ring and the gradual emergence of the conceptions that transformed what J.R.R. Tolkien for long believed would...
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History of Middle-earth volume 8
Pub. Date
2000, c1990
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From the publisher. In The War of the Ring Christopher Tolkien takes up the story of the writing of The Lord of the Rings with the Battle of Helm's Deep and the drowning of Isengard by the Ents. This is followed by an account of how Frodo, Sam and Gollum were finally brought to the Pass of Kirith Ungol, at which point J.R.R. Tolkien wrote at the time: "I have got the hero into such a fix that not even an author will be able to extricate him without...
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History of Middle-earth volume 7
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
From the publisher. The Treason of Isengard is the seventh volume in Christopher Tolkien's History of Middle-earth and the second in his account of the evolution of The Lord of the Rings. In this book, following the long halt in the darkness of the Mines of Moria with which The Return of the Shadow ended, is traced the great expansion of the tale into new lands and new peoples south and east of the Misty Mountains; the emergence of Lothlorien, of...
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History of Middle-earth volume 4
Pub. Date
1986
Description
On t.p.: together with the earliest "Silmarillion" and the first map.
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Pub. Date
2000, c1992
Description
Christopher Tolkien chronicles his father's creation of the classic fantasy novel "The Lord of the Rings" from Sam's rescue in the Tower of Kirith Ungol to the end of the book, presenting early drafts and sketches and versions of the hitherto unpublished epilogue.
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History of Middle-earth volume 5
Pub. Date
1987
Description
The fifth volume of The History of Middle-earth completes the presentation and analysis of Tolkien's writing on the subject of the First Age.
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