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Book:Name: J R R Tolkien - [History of Middle-earth 04] - The Shaping of Middle-earth (retail) (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 7.83 MB
Description:Title: The Shaping of Middle-earth
Author: Christopher Tolkien
Language: English
Year: 2006
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: HMH Books
ISBN: 0752438565
Total pages: 144 str.
Download from RapidGatorThis is the fourth volume of The History of Middle-earth, edited by Christopher Tolkien, the first two comprising The Book of Lost Tales Parts One and Two, and the third The Lays of Beleriand.
It has been given the title The Shaping of Middle-earth because the writings it includes display a great advance in the chronological and geographical structure of the legends of Middle-earth and Valinor. The hitherto wholly unknown "Ambarkanta," or Shape of the World, is the only account ever given of the nature of the imagined Universe, and it is accompanied by diagrams and maps of the world before and after the cataclysms of the War of the Gods and the Downfall of Numenor. The first map of Beleriand, in the North-west of Middle-earth, is also reproduced and discussed. In the "Annals of Valinor" and the "Annals of Beleriand" the chronology of the First Age is given shape; and with these are given the fragments of the translations into Anglo-Saxon made by Aelfwine, the Englishman who...
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