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...
Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth
Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth
Synopsis
A collection of narratives and essays by J.R.R. Tolkien that were left incomplete at his death, edited by Christopher Tolkien in 1980. Unlike The Silmarillion, which shaped its fragments into a coherent mythology, Unfinished Tales presents texts closer to the state Tolkien left them — with editorial commentary, variant readings, and visible seams. The contents span all three Ages of Middle-earth: the story of Tuor's arrival in Gondolin, an extended account of the Children of Húrin, the founding of Rohan, the origin of the Wizards, how Isildur lost the One Ring in the Gladden Fields, and detailed essays on the Palantíri and the history of Galadriel and Celeborn. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how Middle-earth was constructed as much as what it contains.
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TúrinProtagonist
Features in an extended version of the Children of Húrin tale, longer and more detailed than the version in The Silmarillion.
Five WizardsSupporting
TuorSupporting
A mortal man whose journey to Gondolin and its fall are told in greater detail here than in The Silmarillion.
GandalfSupporting
One of the Five Wizards; the essays here reveal his origins, his selection for Middle-earth, and his true nature as a Maia sent by the Valar.
GaladrielSupporting
The Elvish ruler of Lothlórien, whose long history across all three Ages of Middle-earth receives its fullest account anywhere in these pages.
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Unfinished Tales Illustrated EditionUnknown, 2020
528 pages
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing CompanyLanguage: EnglishISBN: 97803584489215 editions available
