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History of Middle-Earth Ser.: The Shaping of Middle-Earth : The Quenta, the Ambarkanta, and the Annals, Together with the Earliest 'Silmarillion' and the First Map by J. R. R. Tolkien (1986, Hardcover)

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This is the fourth volume of The History of Middle-earth, edited by Christopher Tolkien, the first two comprising The Book of Lost Tales Parts One and Two, and the third The Lays of Beleriand.It has been given the title The Shaping of Middle-earth because the writings it includes display a great advance in the chronological and geographical structure of the legends of Middle-earth and Valinor. The hitherto wholly unknown Ambarkanta," or Shape of the World, is the only account ever given of the nature of the imagined Universe, and it is accompanied by diagrams and maps of the world before and after the cataclysms of the War of the Gods and the Downfall of Numenor. The first map of Beleriand, in the North-west of Middle-earth, is also reproduced and discussed. In the "Annals of Valinor" and the "Annals of Beleriand" the chronology of the First Age is given shape; and with these are given the fragments of the translations into Anglo-Saxon made by Aelfwine, the Englishman who voyaged into the True West and came to Tol Eressea, the Lonely Isle, where he learned the ancient history of Elves and Men.Also included are the original "Silmarillion," written in 1926, from which all the later development proceeded, and the "Quenta Noldorinwa" of 1930, the only version of the myths and legends of the First Age that J.R.R. Tolkien completed to their end. As Christopher Tolkien continues editing the unpublished papers that form the bedrock from which The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion were quarried, the vastness of his father's accomplishment becomes even more extraordinary. "

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0395425018
ISBN-13
9780395425015
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Book Title
Shaping of Middle-Earth : The Quenta, the Ambarkanta, and the Annals, Together with the Earliest 'Silmarillion' and the First Map
Author
J.R.R. Tolkien
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Fantasy / General, Fantasy / Epic
Publication Year
1986
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
400 Pages

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8.7in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.6in
Item Weight
21.2 Oz

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Series Volume Number
Vol. 4
Lc Classification Number
Pr6039.O32s46 1986
Copyright Date
1986
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
86-010338
Dewey Decimal
823/.912
Series
History of Middle-Earth Ser.
Dewey Edition
19
Illustrated
Yes

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This isn't further adventures of LOR but an exhaustive effort to trace how Tolkien's masterpiece evolved. For those interested in beginnings, it is fascinating but probably not all that interesting to those who are primarily fans of the movies. I first read LOR in the 1970s and find this book engrossing.
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History of Middle-Earth Ser.: The Shaping of Middle-Earth : The Quenta, the Ambarkanta, and the Annals, Together with the Earliest 'Silmarillion' and the First Map by J. R. R. Tolkien (1986, Hardcover)

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