The Story
Throughout this vast and intricate mythology, says Publishers Weekly, one marvels anew at the depth, breadth, and persistence of J.R.R. Tolkiens labor. No one sympathetic to his aims, the invention of a secondary universe, will want to miss this chance to be present at the creation. In this capstone to that creation, we find the chronology of Middleearths later Ages, the Hobbit genealogies, and the Western language or Common Speech. These early essays show that Tolkiens fertile imagination was at work on Middleearths Second and Third Ages long before he explored them in the Appendices to The Lord of the Rings . Here too are valuable writings from Tolkiens last years: The New Shadow, in Gondor of the Fourth Age, and Talelmar, the tale of the coming of the Nsmenrean ships.
Description
Throughout this vast and intricate mythology, says Publishers Weekly, one marvels anew at the depth, breadth, and persistence of J.R.R. Tolkiens labor. No one sympathetic to his aims, the invention of a secondary universe, will want to miss this chance to be present at the creation. In this capstone to that creation, we find the chronology of Middleearths later Ages, the Hobbit genealogies, and the Western language or Common Speech. These early essays show that Tolkiens fertile imagination was at work on Middleearths Second and Third Ages long before he explored them in the Appendices to The Lord of the Rings . Here too are valuable writings from Tolkiens last years: The New Shadow, in Gondor of the Fourth Age, and Talelmar, the tale of the coming of the Nsmenrean ships.
