| Description |
345 pages ; 21 cm |
| Series |
The history of Middle-earth ; 01 |
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Tolkien, Christopher.
History of Middle-Earth ; 01.
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| Note |
Adult |
| Contents |
v.1. The cottage of lost play -- The music of the Ainur -- The coming of the Valar and the building of Valinor -- The chaining of Melko -- The coming of the elves and the making of Kôr -- The theft of Melko and the darkening of Valinor -- The flight of the Noldoli -- The tale of the sun and moon -- The hiding of Valinor -- Gilfanon's tale : the travail of the Noldoli and the coming of mankind -- v. 2. The tale of Tinuviel -- Turambar and the Foalokez -- The fall of Gondolin -- The Nauglafring -- The history of Eriol or AElfwine and the end of the tales / AElfwine of England. |
| Summary |
A collection of Tolkien's early tales offers the original accounts of the characters and world of Middle-earth and is accompanied by extensive commentary by Tolkien's son. |
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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 ideas of Gods and Elves; Dwarves and Orcs; the Silmarils and the Two Trees of Valinor; Nargothrond and Gondolin; the geography and cosmology of the invented world. |
| Audience |
Adult |
| Subject |
Middle Earth (Imaginary place) -- Fiction.
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Epic fantasy.
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| Genre |
Fantasy fiction.
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| Added Author |
Tolkien, Christopher.
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| ISBN |
9780048232380 |
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0048232386 |
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9780261102224 (HarperCollins : 2002 : pbk.) |
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0261102222 paperback |
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9780345375216 (Del Rey : pbk.) |
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0345375211 (Del Rey : pbk.) |
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9780395409275 |
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0395409276 |
| Standard No. |
046442409278 |
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