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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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Product Identifiers
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-100395425018
ISBN-139780395425015
eBay Product ID (ePID)134958
Product Key Features
Book TitleShaping of Middle-Earth : The Quenta, the Ambarkanta, and the Annals, Together with the Earliest 'Silmarillion' and the First Map
Number of Pages400 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicFantasy / General, Fantasy / Epic
Publication Year1986
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorJ.R.R. Tolkien
Book SeriesHistory of Middle-Earth Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight21.2 Oz
Item Length8.7 in
Item Width5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN86-010338
Dewey Edition19
TitleLeadingThe
Series Volume NumberVol. 4
Dewey Decimal823/.912
SynopsisThis 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 As Christopher Tolkien continues editing the unpublished papers that form the bedrock from which The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion were quarried, the vastness of his father's accomplishment becomes even more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. ", The fourth volume in The History of Middle-earth series, sure to find an eager audience among Tolkien scholars and devoted readers.
LC Classification NumberPR6039.O32S46 1986
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- 26 Mar, 2019
Beginnings
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.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 17 May, 2021
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Great copy!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
