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The nature of Middle-earth : late writings on the lands, inhabitants, and metaphysics of Middle-earth / J.R.R. Tolkien ; edited by Carl F. Hostetter.
Van Pelt Library PR6039.O32 N38 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973--Settings.
- Tolkien, J. R. R.
- Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973.
- Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973--Characters.
- Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973--Criticism and interpretation.
- Fantasy fiction, English--History and criticism.
- Fantasy fiction, English.
- Middle Earth (Imaginary place)--Fiction.
- Middle Earth (Imaginary place).
- Hobbits (Fictitious characters).
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Hobbits (Fictitious characters)--Fiction.
- Elves--Fiction.
- Elves.
- Characters and characteristics.
- Setting (Literature).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 440 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Other Title:
- Late writings on the lands, inhabitants, and metaphysics of Middle-earth
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.
- Summary:
- It is well known that J.R.R. Tolkien published The Hobbit in 1937 and The Lord of the Rings in 1954-5. 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. He discusses 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 and the geography of the Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor.
- Contents:
- Part one. Time and ageing
- Part two. Body, mind and spirit
- Part three. The world, its lands, and its inhabitants
- Appendices.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780358454601
- 0358454603
- OCLC:
- 1224246902
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