Christopher Tolkien
Author
Language
English
Description
"Tolkien considered THE SILMARILLION his most important work, and, though it was published last and posthumously, this great collection of tales and legends clearly sets the stage for all his other writing. The story of the creation of the world and of the the First Age, this is the ancient drama to which the characters in THE LORD OF THE RINGS look back and in whose events some of them, such as Elrond and Galadriel, took part. The three Silmarils...
Author
Series
History of Middle-Earth volume 1-2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
2 v. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Includes Beren and Luthien, Turin and the Dragon, and full narratives of the Necklace of the Dwarves and the Fall of Gondolin. Also includes commentary and poems associated with each tale.
Author
Series
History of Middle-earth volume 8
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
476 p. : facsims. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 labour and difficulty'....
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
302 pages : illustrations (some color), map, genealogical tables ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"...Following his presentation of Beren and Lúthien Christopher Tolkien has used the same 'history in sequence' mode in the writing of this edition of The Fall of Gondolin. In the words of J.R.R. Tolkien, it was 'the first real story of this imaginary world' and, together with Beren and Lúthien and The Children of Húrin, he regarded it as one of the three 'Great Tales' of the Elder Days" - From inside book flap.
Author
Publisher
Del Ray
Pub. Date
2020, c1983
Edition
Del Ray Mass Market edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 345 p. : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Book of Lost Tales stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor. Embedded in English legend and English association, they were set in the narrative frame of a great westward voyage over the ocean by a mariner named Eriol (or AElfwine) to Tol Eressea, the Lonely Isle, where Elves dwelt; from them he learned their true history, the Lost Tales of Elfinesse. In the Tales are found the earliest accounts and original...
Author
Series
History of Middle-earth volume 9
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
xi, 482 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Lord of the rings volume 1
Language
English
Description
The first book in the Lord of the rings trilogy.