The War of the Jewels: Book 11 - Rilegato

Tolkien, Christopher

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0261103148 ISBN 13: 9780261103146

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 1994

Riassunto

The story returns to Middle-earth and the ruinous wars of Elves and Men against Morgoth. With this book, all of J.R.R. Tolkien's later writing concerned with the last years of the First Age, the story of "Silmarillion", from its beginnings in "The Book of Lost Tales", is completed.

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L'autore:

Christopher Tolkien, born on 21st November 1924, is the third son of J.R.R. Tolkien. Appointed by Tolkien to be his literary executor, he has devoted himself since his father's death in 1973 to the editing and publication of unpublished writings, notably The Silmarillion and the collections entitled Unfinished Tales and The History of Middle-earth. Since 1975 he has lived in France with his wife Baillie.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

In 'The War of the Jewels' Christopher Tolkien takes up his account of the later history of 'The Silmarillion' from the point where it was left in 'Morgoth's Ring'. The story now returns to Middle-earth, and the ruinous conflict of the High Elves and the Men who were their allies with the power of the Dark Lord. With the publication of this book all J. R. R. Tolkien's later narrative writing concerned with the last centuries of the First Age, the long history of 'The Silmarillion', from it's beginning in 'The Book of Lost Tales', is completed; and the enigmatic state of the work at his death can be understood.

The book contains the full text of the Grey Annals, the primary record of the War of the Jewels, and a major story of Middle-earth now published for the first time: the tale of the disaster that overtook the forest people of Brethil when Hurin the Steadfast came among them after his release from long years of captivity in Angband, the fortress of Morgoth.

"One marvels anew at the depth, breadth, and persistence of J. R. R Tolkien's labour. No one sympathetic to his aims, the invention of a secondary universe, will want to miss this chance to be present at the creation."
'Publishers Weekly'

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0261103148
• ISBN 13: 9780261103146
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 500