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Return of the Shadow by J. R. R. Tolkien (1989, Hardcover)
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THE RETURN OF THE SHADOW: THE HISTORY OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS, THE HISTORY OF MIDDLE-EARTH, PART 1, VOL. 6 By J. R. R. Tolkien & Christopher Tolkien - Hardcover **BRAND NEW**.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-100395498635
ISBN-139780395498637
eBay Product ID (ePID)1048912
Product Key Features
Book TitleReturn of the Shadow
Number of Pages512 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicScience Fiction & Fantasy, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Fantasy / Epic
Publication Year1989
GenreLiterary Criticism, Fiction
AuthorJ.R.R. Tolkien
Book SeriesHistory of Middle-Earth Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight28.6 Oz
Item Length8.7 in
Item Width5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN88-022986
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition21
Series Volume NumberVol. 6
Dewey Decimal823.9/12
SynopsisChristopher Tolkien describes the intricate evolution of The Fellowship of the Ring. He has skillfully brought together his father's early notes, outline plans, and narrative drafts, providing a picture of the creative process behind The Lord of the Rings., In this sixth volume of The History of Middle-earth the story reaches The Lord of the Rings. In The Return of the Shadow (an abandoned title for the first volume) Christopher Tolkien describes, with full citation of the earliest notes, outline plans, and narrative drafts, the intricate evolution of The Fellowship of the Ring and the gradual emergence of the conceptions that transformed what J.R.R. Tolkien for long believed would be a far shorter book, 'a sequel to The Hobbit'. The enlargement of Bilbo's 'magic ring' into the supremely potent and dangerous Ruling Ring of the Dark Lord is traced and the precise moment is seen when, in an astonishing and unforeseen leap in the earliest narrative, a Black Rider first rode into the Shire, his significance still unknown. The character of the hobbit called Trotter (afterwards Strider or Aragorn) is developed while his indentity remains an absolute puzzle, and the suspicion only very slowly becomes certainty that he must after all be a Man. The hobbits, Frodo's companions, undergo intricate permutations of name and personality, and other major figures appear in strange modes: a sinister Treebeard, in league with the Enemy, a ferocious and malevolent Farmer Maggot. The story in this book ends at the point where J.R.R. Tolkien halted in the story for a long time, as the Company of the Ring, still lacking Legolas and Gimli, stood before the tomb of Balin in the Mines of Moria. The Return of the Shadow is illustrated with reproductions of the first maps and notable pages from the earliest manuscripts.
LC Classification NumberPR6039.O32L6374 1988
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