J.R.R.Tolkien (1892-1973) was a distinguished academic, though he is best known for writing The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, plus other stories and essays. His books have been translated into over 80 languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide.
‘Physically beautiful and sometimes overwhelming in its power, this
book is a grand compendium of all Tolkien said about the period
when the foundations of The Lord of the Rings are laid’
John Garth, THE GUARDIAN ‘It brings a Biblical grandeur to
Tolkien’s fictional history’
WINTER IS COMING ‘A trove of source material about one of
Middle-earth’s most intriguing and central back stories. The book
is beautifully illustrated by Alan Lee and nimbly edited by Brian
Sibley’
WASHINGTON POST ‘For those wishing to expand their understanding of
Middle-earth and the incredible legend crafted by Tolkien, this is
an essential piece to complete that puzzle’
BOOK REPORTER ‘How, given little over half a century of work, did
one man become the creative equivalent of a people?’
THE GUARDIAN ‘Demanding to be compared with English mythologies… at
times rises to the greatness of true myth’
FINANCIAL TIMES ‘A creation of singular beauty… magnificent in its
best moments’
WASHINGTON POST ‘With this most recent volume, The Fall of Númenor,
Sibley has beautifully and brilliantly done for Tolkien’s Second
Age what Christopher Tolkien did for the First Age’
NATIONAL REVIEW
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