Title:
The Lost Road and Other Writings : Language and Legend Before 'The Lord of the Rings' / J.R.R. Tolkien.
Author:
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973, author.
Publication Information:
New York : Ballantine Books, 1996.
Call Number:
PR6039 .O32 L6 1996
Abstract:
This fifth volume of The History of Middle-earth, edited by Christopher Tolkien, completes the presentation of the whole compass of his writing on those themes up to that time. Later forms of the Annuals of Valinor and the Annals of Berleriand had been composed, The Silmarillion was nearing completion in a greatly amplified version, and a new map had been made; the myth of the Music of the Ainur had become a separate work; and the legend of the Downfall of Numenor had already entered in a primitive form, introducing the cardinal ideas of the World Made Round and the Straight Path into the vanished West. Closely associated with this was the abandoned time-travel story, The Lost Road, which was to link the world of Numenor and Middle-earth with the legends of many other times and peoples.
Edition:
1st Ballantine Books ed.
ISBN:
9780345406859
Series:
History of Middle-earth ; 5
Del Rey fantasy
History of Middle-Earth (New York, N.Y.) ; 5.
Physical Description:
503 pages ; 18 cm.
General Note:
Includes index.
"A Del Rey book."
Contents:
Part 1. The fall of Nâumenor and the lost road. I. The early history of the legend ; II. The fall of Nâumenor ; III. The lost road -- Part 2. Valinor and Middle-earth before The lord of the rings. I. The texts and their relations ; II. The later annals of Valinor ; III. The later annals of Beleriand ; IV. Ainulindalèe ; V. The Lhammas ; VI. Quenta Silmarillion -- Part 3. The etymologies -- Appendix: I. The genealogies ; II. The list of names ; III. The second 'Silmarillion' map.
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