Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth 1980
- English Fantasy fiction, Middle Earth (Imaginary place), Open Library Staff Picks, Fiction
Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and provides those who have read The Lord of the Rings with a whole collection of background and new stories from the twentieth century’s most acclaimed popular author.
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About the book
- First published
- 1980
- Pages
- 512
- Publisher
- Unwin Hyman, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, Houghton Mifflin
- Editions
- 62
- Language
- Polish, Portuguese, German, English
- ISBN
- 9780008785697
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) was a major scholar of the English language, specialising in Old and Middle English. Twice Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, he also wrote a number of stories, including most famously The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955), which are set in a pre-historic era in an invented version of the world which he called by the Middle English name of Middle-earth. This was peopled by Men (and women), Elves, Dwarves, Trolls, Orcs (or Goblins) and of course Hobbits. He has regularly been condemned by the Eng. Lit. establishment, with honourable exceptions, but loved by literally millions of readers worldwide. In the
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