The History of Middle-Earth – Boxed Set #2

By: Christopher Tolkien

$150.00

Second in a series of hardback boxed sets celebrating the literary achievement of Christopher Tolkien, featuring double-sided dustjackets.

Includes The Lays of Beleriand, The Shaping of Middle-Earth, and The Lost Road, which contain the early myths and legends that led to the writings of The Silmarillion.

Product Description

The Lays of Beleriand gives us a privileged insight into the creation of the mythology of Middle-earth through the alliterative verse tales of two of the most crucial stories in Tolkien’s world – those of Túrin and of Beren and Lúthien. Accompanying the poems are commentaries on the evolution of the history of the Elder Days, together with the notable criticism of The Lay of Leithian by C.S. Lewis, who read the poem in 1929.

InThe Shaping of Middle-earththe chronological and geographical structure of the legends of Middle-earth and Valinor is spread before us. We are introduced to the hitherto unknown Ambarkanta or ‘Shape of the World’, the only account ever given of the nature of the imagined Universe, accompanied by maps and diagrams of the world before and after the cataclysms of the War of the Gods and the Downfall of Númenor. Also included are the original ‘Silmarillion’ of 1926, 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.

The Lost Road completes the examination of Tolkien’s writing completes the examination of Tolkien’s writing before he began The Lord of the Rings, presenting later forms of the annals of Valinor and Beleriand, the legend of the downfall of Númenor, and the abandoned ‘time-travel’ story The Lost Road, linking the world of Númenor and Middle-earth with the legends of many other times and peoples.

Published together for the first time, these three books comprise a fascinating period of Christopher Tolkien’s forty-year career devoted to presenting his father J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings on Middle-earth, itself a unique accomplishment that celebrates the greatest invented world in all of fantasy literature.

Companion Products: 

The Hobbit (Illustrated)
The Hobbit (PB)
The Fellowship of the Ring (Gold Foil)

The Simarillion (Gold Foill)
The Simarillion (HC)

Beren and Luthien 
The Fall of Numenor
The Fall of Gondolin
The Children of Hurin
Unfinished Tales

Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien
Hobbitvs Ille: The Latin Hobbit
Farmer Giles of Ham
Farmer Giles of Ham (HC)

Paperback Set: 

The Hobbit
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King

Boxed Sets:

History of Middle-Earth Boxed-Set #1
History of Middle-Earth Boxed-Set #2
History of Middle-Earth Boxed-Set #3
History of Middle-Earth Boxed-Set #4

Additional Information

Weight 1.3 kg
Dimensions 9 × 7 × 5 in
ISBN

9780008669232

Published Date

2024

Author

Christopher Tolkien

Publisher

HarperCollins

Format

Hardcover, Box Set

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