The Book of Lost Tales Part 2 UK Paperback published by Harper Collins UK (New 2002 Version)
Volume 2 in the History of Middle Earth series
The Book of Lost Tales stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor for the Tales were the first form of the myths and legends that came to be called The Silmarillion. Embedded in English legend and English association, they are set in the narrative frame of a great westward voyage over the Ocean by a mariner named Eriol (or AElfwine) to Tol Eress?a, the Lonely Isle, where Elves dwelt; from them he learned their true history, the Lost Tales of Elfinesse. In the Tales are found the earliest accounts and original ideas of Gods and Elves, Dwarves, Balrogs and Orcs; of the Silmarils and the Two Trees of Valinor; of Nargothrond and Gondolin; of the geography and cosmology of the invented world.
"In these Lost Tales we have the scholar joyously gambolling in the thickets of his imagination?a Commentary and Notes greatly enrich the quest." THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
"affords us an almost over the shoulder view into the evolving creative process and genius of J.R.R. Tolkien in a new, exciting aspect?the superb, sensitive and extremely helpful commentary and editing done by Christopher Tolkien makes all this possible." MYTHLORE
TT Code - U149
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