The superb, sensitive, and extremely helpful commentary and editing done by Christopher Tolkien make all of this possible. “Affords us an almost over-the-shoulder view into the evolving creative process and genius of J.R.R. A commentary and notes greatly enrich the quest.” - The Daily Telegraph “In these tales we have the scholar joyously gamboling in the thickets of his imagination. In the Tales are found the earliest accounts and original ideas of Gods and Elves Dwarves and Orcs the Silmarils and the Two Trees of Valinor Nargothrond and Gondolin and the geography and cosmology of the invented world. The Book of Lost Tales is a collection of early stories by J. Embedded in English legend and English association, they were set in the narrative frame of a great westward voyage over the Ocean by a mariner named Eriol (or Ælfwine) to Tol Eressëa, the Lonely Isle, where Elves dwelt from them he learned their true history, the Lost Tales of Elfinesse. The Book of Lost Tales stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor. The extraordinary history of Middle-earth, edited by Christopher Tolkien The first of a two-book set that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkiens epic tale of war.
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