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The Lays of Beleriand (1st THUS) by Tolkien, J. R. R.
by Tolkien, J. R. R. | HC | VeryGood
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- First Edition THUS
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
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- ISBN
- 9780395394298
- Book Title
- Lays of Beleriand
- Book Series
- History of Middle-Earth Ser.
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Item Length
- 8.7 in
- Publication Year
- 1985
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Literary, Fantasy / Epic
- Item Weight
- 23.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.6 in
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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This is the third volume of the History of Middle-earth, which comprises here-tofore unpublished manuscripts that were written over a period of many years before Tolkien's Simlarillion was published. Volumes 1 and 2 were the Book of Lost Tales, Part One and The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two. Together, these volumes encompass an extraordinarily extensive body of material ornamenting and buttressing what must be the most fully realized world ever to spring from a single author's imagination.I write alliterative verse with pleasure," wrote J.R.R. Tolkien in 1955, "though I have published little beyond the fragments in The Lord of the Rings, except The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth." The first of the poems in The Lays of Beleriand is the previously unpublished Lay of the Children of Hurin, his early but most sustained work in the ancient English meter, intended to narrate on a grand scale the tragedy of Turin Turambar. It was account of the killing by Turin of his friend Beleg, as well as a unique description of the great redoubt of Nargothrond. The Lay of the Children of Hurin was supplanted by the Lay of Leithian, "Release from Bondage", in which another major legend of the Elder Days received poetic form, in this case in rhyme. The chief source of the short prose tale of Beren and Luthien is The Silmarillion. This, too, was not completed, but the whole Quest of the Silmaril is told, and the poem breaks off only after the encounter with Morgoth in his subterranean fortress. Many years later, when The Lord of the rings was finished, J.R.R. Tolkien returned to the Lay of Leithian and started on a new version, which is also given in this book.Accompanying the poems are commentaries on the evolution of the history of the Elder Days, which was much developed during the years of the composition of the two Lays. Also included is the notable criticism in detail of the Lay of Lethian by C.S. Lewis, Tolkien's friend and colleague, who read the poem in 1929. By assuming that this poem is actually a fragment from a past lost in history, Lewis underlined the remarkable power of its author's imaginative talents and academic competence. "
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0395394295
ISBN-13
9780395394298
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Lays of Beleriand
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1985
Topic
Literary, Fantasy / Epic
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
History of Middle-Earth Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
23.4 Oz
Item Length
8.7 in
Item Width
5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
21
Lccn
85-018013
Series Volume Number
Vol. III
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
823.9/12
Lc Classification Number
Pr6039.O32l3 1985
Copyright Date
1985
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