Record details

• ISBN: 9781507224175|q (hardcover)
• ISBN: 1507224176|q (hardcover)
• Physical Description: 239 pages ;|c 16 cm 16 cm.
• Publisher: Stoughton, Massachusetts : Adams Media, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, 2025.

Content descriptions

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Mabel annd Arthur -- (Mis)adventures at Bank House -- Childhood days in England -- Catholicism in the Tolkien home -- The Middle-earth afterlife -- From the Silmarillion, "̂The Akallabêth" -- Orphaned brothers -- Father Francis Morgan -- The immortal four -- Elvish script -- From the Fellowship of the Ring ("Namárië," or "Galadriel's Lament in Lórien") -- Switzerland -- "A very simple sense of humor" -- When pen met paper -- From "The Voyage of Éarendel the Evening Star" -- A long-expected war -- Reuniting with Edith -- Somewhere in France covered in mud -- The return journey -- Samwise the Brave --The Book of Lost Tales -- Tevildo and other talking animals -- The real0life Beren and Lúthien -- From the Silmarillion ("Of Beren and Lúthien") -- The Fall of Gondolin -- Tolkien's children -- The dictionary job -- Letters from Father Christmas -- A letter from Father Christmas, 1920 -- The unexpected interview|t E.V. Gordon -- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- From Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- Professor Tolkien -- Tolkien's Anglo-Saxon Fascination -- The professor and philology -- Mary Renault -- Roverandam -- From Roverandom -- Fast friends -- Writing the Hobbit -- Norse mythology -- "On Fairy-Stories" -- Tolkien the lecturer -- "Beowulf: The Monster and the Critics" -- Tolkien the time traveler -- The Inklings -- Tom Bombadil -- From "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil" -- Dwarven language -- The tale of Rayner Unwin -- From Rayner Unwin's report on the Hobbit -- A certain point of view -- Smaug and other dragons -- Writing the Lord of the Rings -- A "small" inquiry gone awry -- The war of the machines -- "Except Shakespeare (which I dislike cordially)" -- Closing lines of "Song of the Ent and Entwife" -- "Wheelbarrows at 5 a.m." -- "Leaf by niggle" -- Farmer Giles of Ham -- From Father Giles of Ham -- The second version of the Hobbit -- From Tolkien's letter to Allen &Unwin, August 1, 1950 -- Publishing roadblocks -- Publishing the Lord of the Rings -- J.R.R. Tolkien, the illustrator -- But wiat, there's more -- From the Two Towers, "the Stairs of Cirith Ungol" -- Human stories -- This Faramir fellow -- From the Two Towers (Peregrin Took) -- Atlantis is waiting -- The undying lands & other bizarre geography -- "It's your Sam" -- Good versus evil -- From the Two Towers film adaptation -- The many languages of the Lord of the Rings and beyond -- Illustrators of Middle-earth -- Tolkien and his readers -- "Questions that need answering" -- From the Return of the King -- The band down the road -- Tolkien-inspired music -- The ace paperbacks -- Tolkien as a counterculture icon -- The sequel that never was -- From the New Shadow -- Smith of Wootton Major -- Edith's passing -- The Tolkien Society -- Zimmerman & Boorman -- "Bilbo's Last Song" & Tolkien's death -- From "Bilbo's Last Song" -- Christopher Tolkien -- Dungeons & Dragons and legal action -- The Silmarillion -- From the Silmarillion -- The great tales -- The children of Húrin -- Rankin/Bass -- Ralph Bakshi -- Unfinished tales of Númenor and Middle-earth -- From Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth ("The Disaster of the Gladden Fields") -- The history of Middle-earth -- Keepers -- The Last Ringbearer -- Peter Jackson -- Christopher Lee & Ian Holm -- From the Fellowship of the Ring -- They Shall not Grow Old -- Tolkien-related holidays -- Sing me a tale of the greatest of them all -- The Lord of the Rings online -- Tolkien memes -- The Rings of Power -- From the Fellowship of the ring ("Ring-verse") -- The War of the Rohirrim -- Tolkien never said that -- Named after something.

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Subject:

Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973.
Middle Earth (Imaginary place)

Genre:

Biography.