Sauron Defeated: The End Of The Third Age: The History of the Lord of the Rings, part four (History of Middle-earth, 9) (First Edition)

Tolkien, J.R.R.

ISBN 10: 0395606497 / ISBN 13: 9780395606490

Edité par Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1992

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. First American edition. First printing, with full number line including 1. Hardcover. Full black cloth, with gilt spine lettering. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Slight foxing; small water-stain to jacket at head of spine. Publisher's original price intact on front jacket flap ($22.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Octavo, 482 pages, brown endpapers. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. This volume traces the final composition of "The Lord of the Rings" and includes the abandoned time-travel narrative "The Notion Club Papers" and the unpublished epilogue to the trilogy. This twelve-volume series, edited by Christopher Tolkien, chronicles the evolution of Middle-earth across drafts, notes, and commentary; the other volumes include: "The Book of Lost Tales, Part I"; "The Book of Lost Tales, Part II"; "The Lays of Beleriand"; "The Shaping of Middle-earth"; "The Lost Road and Other Writings"; "The Return of the Shadow"; "The Treason of Isengard"; "The War of the Ring"; "Morgoth's Ring"; "The War of the Jewels"; and "The Peoples of Middle-earth." J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973), author of "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings," was Professor of Philology at Oxford. This volume was posthumously edited by his son, Christopher Tolkien.

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• Titre: Sauron Defeated: The End Of The Third Age: The History of the Lord of the Rings, part four (History of Middle-earth, 9) (First Edition)
• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York
• Date de parution: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0395606497
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780395606490
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine

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Synopsis

In the first part of Sauron Defeated, Christopher Tolkien completes his account of the writing of The Lord of the Rings, beginning with Sam's rescue of Frodo from the Tower of Kirith Ungol, and giving a very different account of the Scouring of the Shire. This part ends with versions of the previously unpublished Epilogue, an alternate ending to the masterpiece in which Sam attempts to answer his children's questions years after the departure of Bilbo and Frodo from the Grey Havens. The second part introduces The Notion Club Papers, now published for the first time. Written by J.R.R. Tolkien in the interval between The Two Towers and The Return of the King (1945-1946), these mysterious Papers, discovered in the early years of the twenty-first century, report the discussions of a literary club in Oxford in the years 1986-1987. Those familiar with the Inklings will see a parallel with the group whose members included J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. After a discussion of the possiblities of travel through space and time through the medium of 'true dream," the story turns to the legend of Atlantis, the strange communications received by members of the club out of remote past, and the violent irruption of the legend into northwestern Europe. Closely associated with the Papers is a new version of the Numenorean legend, The Drowning of Anadune, which constitutes the third part of the book. At this time the language of the Men of the West, Adunaic, was first devised - Tolkien's fifteenth invented language. The book concludes with an elaborate account of the structure of this language by Arundel Lowdham, a member of the Notion Club, who learned it in his dreams. Sauron Defeated is illustrated with the changing conceptions of the fortress of Kirith Ungol and Mount Doom, previously unpublished drawings of Orthanc and Dunharrow, and fragments of manuscript written in Numenorean script.

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J.R.R. Tolkien (1892–1973) was a distinguished academic, though he is best known for writing The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, plus other stories and essays. His books have been translated into over sixty languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide.