The Peoples of Middle-Earth: The History of Middle-Earth Volume XII. Edited by Christopher Tolkien.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. In this capstone to Tolkien's intricate mythological creation, we find the chronology of Middle-earth's later Ages, the Hobbit genealogies, and the Western language or Common Speech. These early essays show that Tolkien's fertile imagination was at work on Middle-earth's Second and Third Ages long before he explored them in the Appendices to The Lord of the Rings . Here too are valuable writings from Tolkien's last years: " The New Shadow," in Gondor of the Fourth Age, and" Tal-elmar," the tale of the coming of the Nsmen-rean ships. Item #29479
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