John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa in 1892 and raised in England after his mother brought him home at age three. Orphaned before he was thirteen — his mother died a devout Catholic convert — Tolkien went on to study Old and Middle English, Germanic languages, Welsh, and Finnish at Oxford. He graduated in 1915, married Edith Bratt before shipping out to the Western Front, and fought in the Battle of the Somme. Nearly all of his closest friends were killed. He contrac...
The Lost Road and Other Writings
The Lost Road and Other Writings
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Volume Five of the History of Middle-earth contains the unfinished Lost Road -- Tolkien's abortive attempt at a time-travel novel conceived jointly with C.S. Lewis, in which a father and son in the modern world receive visions of their previous lives across different historical periods, ultimately approaching the fall of Numenor. Alongside the fragmentary novel, the volume includes the Lhammas (an essay on the languages of Middle-earth and their relationships), the Earliest Annals of Valinor and Beleriand in revised form, and the Quenta Silmarillion continued. Christopher Tolkien's commentary illuminates the relationship between the Lost Road concept and the eventual Akallabeth, and why the time-travel mechanism was ultimately abandoned.
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Alboin ErrolProtagonist
The protagonist of the Lost Road fragment -- an English philologist who receives visions of previous lives reaching back through time toward Numenor.
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Lost Road and Other WritingsUnknown, 2019
455 pages
HarperCollins Publishers LimitedLanguage: EnglishISBN: 97800073482205 editions available
