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THE HISTORY OF MIDDLE-EARTH
Poems and prose, maps and chronologies, detours and diversions along the road to Middle-earth . . . Christopher Tolkien has gathered archival materials that his late father, J. R. R. Tolkien, used to create the world and the history behind his classic stories.
THE EVOLUTION OF A WORLD
This fourth volume of The History of Middle-earth presents early versions of those first tales, from the creation myth to the fall of Morgoth. Writings include a chronology of the events in Beleriand, the first Silmarillion map, and the only known description of the physical nature of Middle-earth's universe. Detailed annotations highlight changes ranging from the spelling of Elvish names to pivotal emendations whose effects reach even to the war of the ring.
The Shaping of Middle-earth presents a solid framework by which to trace the development of the early lore of Middle-earth. It is a truly indispensable reference work for those familiar with the history of that endlessly beloved land--and fascinating reading for those just entering that world.
- Sales Rank: #551855 in Books
- Brand: J.R.R. Tolkien Books
- Published on: 1995-10-30
- Released on: 1995-10-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.89" h x 1.04" w x 4.17" l, .52 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 480 pages
From Library Journal
This volume in the History of Middle-earth presents the earliest version of the Silmarillion as well as the "Quenta," which further develops this material. The "Annals" are a chronological presentation of the major events in Tolkien's vast mythology. There is also a copy of the earliest map Tolkien created of Middle-earth. Original material is followed by copious annotations relating each part to the others as well as to material presented in other volumes. This collection will be most useful to scholars interested in tracing the development of Tolkien's work. A small group of serious and sophisticated fans of fantasy may also be interested. Suggested for comprehensive literature collections. Beth Ann Mills, New Rochelle P.L., N.Y.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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'Illustrates the development, depth and richness of J R R Tolkien's personal mythology' Vector
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THE HISTORY OF MIDDLE-EARTH
Poems and prose, maps and chronologies, detours and diversions along the road to Middle-earth . . . Christopher Tolkien has gathered archival materials that his late father, J. R. R. Tolkien, used to create the world and the history behind his classic stories.
THE EVOLUTION OF A WORLD
This fourth volume of The History of Middle-earth presents early versions of those first tales, from the creation myth to the fall of Morgoth. Writings include a chronology of the events in Beleriand, the first Silmarillion map, and the only known description of the physical nature of Middle-earth's universe. Detailed annotations highlight changes ranging from the spelling of Elvish names to pivotal emendations whose effects reach even to the war of the ring.
The Shaping of Middle-earth presents a solid framework by which to trace the development of the early lore of Middle-earth. It is a truly indispensable reference work for those familiar with the history of that endlessly beloved land--and fascinating reading for those just entering that world.
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Early Notes for The Silmarillion, plus MAPS! Better than Vol III
By B. Marold
`The Shaping of Middle-Earth' is the fourth volume of Christopher Tolkien's exegesis of his father, J.R.R. Tolkien's unpublished writings which were done before, during, and after the writing of `The Hobbit' and `The Lord of the Rings'. It is important to realize that beginning with Volume III, `The Lays of Beleriand', these volumes are prepared according to the date on which the elder Tolkien wrote the documents. That this `real world' chronology is roughly parallel to the great ages of middle earth is simply a happy coincidence.
One little niggle I have about the emphasis of `Middle Earth' in the title of both this volume and the series as a whole is that the land, middle earth, is just one part of the whole world in which this mythology is played out. It is basically a great continent, roughly similar to Eurasia in size, surrounded by a single great ocean which is, in turn, bounded by the undying lands. This fact is eminantly clear in the crude maps by Tolkien senior presented in this volume.
What is also eminantly clear in most of these fragments is the great difference in both geography and physics between our world and the world in which middle earth is embedded. There is no sun and no stars, until the stars are created by some of the `gods', the Valar, who are in turn created by `the one', Iluvatar.
The fragments in this volume are mostly early versions of the mythology which was to become the postumously published `The Silmarillion'. As such, it deals with my very favorite character outside of `The Lord of the Rings', the elven lord Feanor who, in a rough parallel to both Adam and Prometheus, disobeys the Valar based on the promptings of the ultimate bad guy in these stories, Morgoth.
Even if one buys the unique physics, cosmology, and pantheon of gods and demigods, the hardest part of this and similar writings is how to deal with Tolkien's handling of evil. How, one wonders, are eight `good' Valar duped by the ninth evil one, who is left to subvert the Valar's most favored creations, the elves, and create all sorts of mayhem in Middle Earth. Even if one introduces the arguments about `free will', one wonders how, if you posit a very real supreme being, Iluvatar (Eru), plus eight comparably powerful beings, such beings would let Morgoth get away with being the cause of all this suffering.
On a ligher note, I find this book an amazing source of poetic inspiration, even more poetic, sometimes than the overtly poetic `The Lays of Beleriand'. There are phrases and paragraphs here and there which sound like they are straight out of a song by Donoven Leitch or The Incredible String Band.
Like almost all the twelve volumes in this series, this is much more a study of fragments than a complete work. Many of the fragments rework the same material, so you find yourself reading the same story over again, in slightly different words. And yet, the power of the created world holds up through the scholarly framework. As with other volumes, there is an excellent index of names at the end of the book and the aforementioned maps are invaluable in understanding the very odd geography of this invented world.
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More variations of the core events of the Silmarillion and one unpublished poem composed by Tuor
By Juan Pablo Martese
Warning: a substantial portion of this book is in Old English, translations made by Tolkien of his own texts. It's a treasure for the student of Old English, but otherwise it is unintelligible.
In my opinion, the only truly interesting piece of this book is Tuor's poem “The Horns of Ylmir”, written for his son Earendil, where he describes the music Ulmo played when he appeared to him in the Land of Willows. It is the only new text present in this volume.
The rest of the book contains:
1) The Ambarkanta: one of the first descriptions of Tolkien's world, very different from later versions in the Silmarillion. Like the “Annals”, the “Ambakanta” narrates the fundamental history and events of the First Age of Tolkien's world in a very schematic way, almost like a prose time-line. In fact, Ch. Tolkien describes it as a “Sketch that my father composed extremely rapidly”.
2) First maps of Middle-Earth with list and explanations of the names that appear in them.
3) A long list of Elvish names with Old English equivalents, interesting because they shed light on the meaning of the names in elvish.
4) The earliest “Annals of Valinor” written by Pengolod the Wise of Gondolin, which tell the events spanning from the coming of the Valar to the return of Feanor to Beleriand. This is followed by a translation into Old English of the same text written by Aelfwine/Eriol.
4) Earliest “Annals of Beleriand”: it starts where the “Annals of Valinor” left off: the return of the Noldor to Middle-Earth to the end of the First Age, followed by an Old English translation of the same text.
At this stage, after reading the three first volumes of “History of Middle Earth”, I found book 4 very repetitive. It just presents another version of the tales present in the previous installments. Like I said, the only original and interesting piece here is Tour's poem. The rest is variations of the same themes.
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