The nature of Middle-earth : late writings on the lands, inhabitants, and metaphysics of Middle-earth

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The nature of Middle-earth : late writings on the lands, inhabitants, and metaphysics of Middle-earth

Title remainder

late writings on the lands, inhabitants, and metaphysics of Middle-earth

Statement of responsibility

J.R.R. Tolkien ; edited by Carl F. Hostetter

Creator

• Tolkien, J. R. R., (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973

Contributor

• Hostetter, Carl F

Subject

• Hobbits, (Fictitious characters) -- Fiction
• Middle Earth (Imaginary place) -- Fiction
• Elves -- Fiction
• Tolkien, J. R. R., (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 -- Settings

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

It is well known that J.R.R. Tolkien published The Hobbit in 1937 and The Lord of the Rings in 1954-5. What may be less known is that he continued to write about Middle-earth in the decades that followed, right up until the years before his death in 1973. For him, Middle-earth was part of an entire world to be explored, and the writings in The Nature of Middle-earth reveal the journeys that he took as he sought to better understand his unique creation. From sweeping themes as profound as Elvish immortality and reincarnation, and the Powers of the Valar, to the more earth-bound subjects of the lands and beasts of Nm︣enor, the geography of the Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor, and even who had beards! This new collection, which has been edited by Carl F. Hostetter, one of the world's leading Tolkien experts, is a veritable treasure-trove offering readers a chance to peer over Professor Tolkien's shoulder at the very moment of discovery: and on every page, Middle-earth is once again brought to extraordinary life

Cataloging source

YDX

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult