The book of lost tales. Part One / J.R.R. Tolkien ; edited by Christopher Tolkien.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973.

Contributor:

Tolkien, Christopher, editor.

Mark B. Adams Science Fiction Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Tolkien, Christopher. History of Middle-Earth ; pt. 1.

The History of Middle-earth ; pt. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle Earth (Imaginary place)--Literary collections.

Middle Earth (Imaginary place).

Fantasy literature, English.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Science fiction.

Fantasy fiction.

Fiction.

Literature.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)

Physical Description:

297 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

Book Club edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1988?

Summary:

The first major work of imagination by J.R.R. Tolkien, begun in 1916-1917 and left incomplete several years later.

The Book of Lost Tales contains the first forms of the myths that came to be called The Silmarillion. These include early accounts of Gods and Elves, Dwarves, Balrogs, and Orcs; of the geography and cosmography of their invented world, J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.

Contents:

I The Cottage of Lost Play 13

II The Music of the Ainur 45

III The Coming of the Valar and the Building of Valinor 64

IV The Chaining of Melko 94

V The Coming of the Elves and the Making of Kor 113

VI The Theft of Melko and the Darkening of Valinor 140

VII The Flight of the Noldoli 162

VIII The Tale of the Sun and Moon 174

IX The Hiding of Valinor 207

X Gilfanon's Tale: the Travail of the Noldoli and the Coming of Mankind 229.

Notes:

Includes the Cottage of Lost Play, the Music of the Ainur, the coming of the Valar and the Building of Valinor, the Chaining of Melko, the Coming of the Elves and the Making of Kor, the Theft of Melko and the Darkening of Valinor, the Flight of the Noldoli, the Tale of the Sun and Moon, the Hiding of Valinor, and Gilfanon's Tale: the Travail of the Noldoli and the Coming of Mankind.

Appendix: Names in the Lost Tales (Part One), short glossary of obsolete, archaic, and rare words.

Local Notes:

Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.

Adams Collection copy has dustjacket. Probably printed after 1987.

Cited in:

Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 284362

ISBN:

0395354390

OCLC:

978597867

Publisher Number:

02005 Science Fiction Book Club