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-----------( 1st Printing of the First UK Edition ) ---hardcover, a a Fine example in a Fine dustjacket, feels unread, 440 pages, ---"Tolkien s final writings on Middle-earth, covering a wide range of subjects and perfect for those who have read and enjoyed The Silmarillion, The Lord of the Rings, Unfinished Tales, and The History of Middle-earth, and want to learn more about Tolkien s magnificent world. -----It is well known that J.R.R. Tolkien published The Hobbit in 1937 and The Lord of the Rings in 1954-55. What may be less known is that he continued to write about Middle-earth in the decades that followed, right up until the years before his death in 1973. -----For him, Middle-earth was part of an entire world to be explored, and the writings in The Nature of Middle-earth reveal the journeys that he took as he sought to better understand his unique creation. From sweeping themes as profound as Elvish immortality and reincarnation, and the Powers of the Valar, to the more earth-bound subjects of the lands and beasts of Númenor, the geography of the Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor, and even who had beards! -----This new collection, which has been edited by Carl F. Hostetter, one of the world s leading Tolkien experts, is a veritable treasure-trove offering readers a chance to peer over Professor Tolkien s shoulder at the very moment of discovery: and on every page, Middle-earth is once again brought to extraordinary life"---, ---CONTENTS are: Foreword; Editorial Practices; Abbreviations & Conventions ---PART ONE: TIME AND AGEING - Introduction; I The Valian Year; II Valinorian Time-Divisions; III Of Time in Arda; IV Time-scales; V Natural Youth and Growth of the Quendi; VI The Awaking of the Quendi; VII The March of the Quendi;VIII Eldarin Traditions Concerning the "Awakening'; IX Time-scales and Rates of Growth; X Difficulties in Chronology; XI Ageing of Elves; XII Concerning the Quendi in their Mode of Life and Growth; XIII Key Dates; XIV Calculation of the Increase of the Ouendi; XV A Generational Scheme; XVI Note on the Youth and Growth of the Quendi; XVII Generational Schemes; XVIII Elvish Ages & Númenórean; XIX Elvish Life-cycles; XX Time and its Perception; XXI Notes on Elvish Time-reference; XXII A Fragment from The Annals of Aman; XXIII A Fragment from The Grey Annals ---PART TWO: BODY, MIND AND SPIRIT - Introduction; I Beauty and Goodness; II Gender and Sex; III Eldarin Hands, Fingers, and Numerals; IV Hair; V Beards; VI Descriptions of Characters; VII Mind-Pictures; VIII Knowledge and Memory; IX Ósanwe-kenta; X Notes on Orë; XI Fate and Free Will; XII The Knowledge of the Valar; XIII Spirit; XIV The Visible Forms of the Valar and Maiar; XV Elvish Reincarnation; XVI From The Statute of Finwë and Miriel; XVII Death ---PART THREE: THE WORLD, ITS LANDS, AND ITS INHABITANTS - Introduction I Dark and Light; I The Primal Impulse; III Powers of the Valar; IV The Making of Lembas; V Note on Elvish Economy; VI Dwellings in Middle-earth; VII The Founding of Nargothrond; VIII Manwë's Ban; IX Elvish Journeys on Horseback; X Rider to "The White Rider'; XI Lives of the Númenóreans; XII The Ageing of Númenóreans; XIII Of the Land and Beasts of Númenor;XIV Note on the Consumption of Mushrooms; XV The Númenórean Catastrophe & End of "Physical" Aman; XVI Galadriel and Celeborn;; XVII Silvan Elves and Silvan Elvish; XVIII Note on the Delay of Gil-galad and the Númenóreans; XIX Note on Dwarvish Voices XX Note on the Dwarf Road; XXI From The Hunt for the Ring; XXII The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor --- APPENDICES - I Metaphysical and Theological Themes; II Glossary and Index of Quenya Terms --- Index, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)--- Size: 5.75w x 9h Inches.
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