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In this truly indispensable reference, trace the development of the early lore of Middle-earth. Poems and prose, maps and chronologies, detours and diversions along the road to Middle-earth -- Christopher Tolkien has gathered archival materials that his late father, J.R.R.
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- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- Grafton, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, HarperCollins
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English, und
- ISBN
- 9780261102187
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- English Fantasy literature
- Literary collections
- Middle Earth (Imaginary place)
- English Fantastic literature
- British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Fiction, fantasy, general
- Middle earth (imaginary place), fiction
- Fiction, science fiction, general
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- Series:The History of Middle-earth
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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