Morgoth's Ring: The Later Silmarillion, Part 1, the Legends of Aman (History of Middle-earth)

Tolkien, J. R. R.; Christopher Tolkien, editor

ISBN 10: 0395680921 / ISBN 13: 9780395680926

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston - New York, 1993

Beschreibung

Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston - New York, 1993. Eighth (8th) Printing (number line down to 8) of the First (1st) American Edition. As New in an As New Dust Jacket. Unread. The Text Block is clean, bright white, very tight (creaks when opened), straight and square with no markings of any kind. The Binding is full black cloth, color uniform throughout, with bright gilt title, etc., to the spine, unmarked golden endpapers, and all corners square and sharp. The Dust Jacket is flawless - bright, uniform colors and fully intact with the original price ($29.95) intact on the front flap. See photos. x + 471 pages (including Appendix and Index). 5 7/8" x 9". The sections of the book are as follows: Part 1 Ainundale - The Music of the Ainur, Tolkien's creation account; Part 2 The Annals of Aman, covering the history of the world from the entry of the Valar into Arda until the hiding of Valinor; Part 3 the Later Quenta Silmarillion, versions of the Silmarillion stories; Part 4 Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth - the Debate of Finrod and Amreth about death and immortality and the fates of men and elves; Part 5 Myths Transformed, fragmentary proposals to solve problems relating to Morgoth, Sauron and the Orcs. ISBN 10: 0395680921 / ISBN 13: 9780395680926.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 000816

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Morgoth's Ring: The Later Silmarillion, Part 1, the Legends of Aman (History of Middle-earth)
• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston - New York
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0395680921
• ISBN-13: 9780395680926
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Druck: 8th Printing
• Zustand: As New
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New

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Inhaltsangabe

Describes and documents the myths and legends of the Elder Days, as they were evolved and transformed by Tolkien and includes previously unpublished documents in which the author struggles to examine the nature and destiny of his characters.

Reseña del editor

In Morgoth's Ring, the tenth volume of The History of Middle-earth and the first of two companion volumes, Christopher Tolkien describes and documents the legends of the Elder Days, as they were evolved and transformed by his father in the years after he completed The Lord of the Rings. The text of the Annals of Aman, the "Blessed Land" in the far West, is given in full. And in writings never before published, we can see the nature of the problems that J.R.R. Tolkien explored in his later years as new and radical ideas, portending upheaval in the old narratives, emerged at the heart of the mythology. At this time Tolkien sought to redefine the old legends, and wrote of the nature and destiny of Elves, the idea of Elvish rebirth, the origin of the Orcs, and the Fall of Men. His meditation of mortality and immortality as represented in the lives of Men and Elves led to another major writing at this time, the "Debate of Finrod and Andreth, " which is reproduced here in full. "Above all, " Christopher Tolkien writes in his foreword, "the power and significance of Melkor-Morgoth ... was enlarged to become the ground and source of the corruption of Arda." This book indeed is all about Morgoth. Incomparably greater than the power of Sauron, concentrated in the One Ring, Morgoth's power (Tolkien wrote) was dispersed into the very matter of Arda: "the whole of Middle-earth was Morgoth's Ring."