The Return of the Shadow
Aka The History of the Lord of the Rings - Part 1 or The History of Middle-Earth volume 6.
I'm a Tolkien fanatic, can't you tell? Although if he heard me, the good professor would likely slap me with a copy of The Hobbit (if I was lucky). He was strongly surprised by the kind of enthusiasm his 'brainchild' raised.
For myself, being crazy about languages *and* ancient myths *and* history I coudn't but fall in love with Middle-Earth, and I always itch (and sometimes ache) for more of it.
'The History of Middle-Earth' (all 12 volumes of it)is just for people like me, those who whant to know how Quenya came about, or that can stare at a sentence in Sindarin for minutes just savoring the sound of it or who like to ponder the affinities between early history of the people who will become the Rohirrim and the real-world history of the Langobardic settlement of Italy.
This labour of love of professor Christopher Tolkien isn't definitely for those who consider the Lord of the Rings 'just' a novel, but is a definite must for anyone seriously interested in Tolkien studies.
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I'm a Tolkien fanatic, can't you tell? Although if he heard me, the good professor would likely slap me with a copy of The Hobbit (if I was lucky). He was strongly surprised by the kind of enthusiasm his 'brainchild' raised.
For myself, being crazy about languages *and* ancient myths *and* history I coudn't but fall in love with Middle-Earth, and I always itch (and sometimes ache) for more of it.
'The History of Middle-Earth' (all 12 volumes of it)is just for people like me, those who whant to know how Quenya came about, or that can stare at a sentence in Sindarin for minutes just savoring the sound of it or who like to ponder the affinities between early history of the people who will become the Rohirrim and the real-world history of the Langobardic settlement of Italy.
This labour of love of professor Christopher Tolkien isn't definitely for those who consider the Lord of the Rings 'just' a novel, but is a definite must for anyone seriously interested in Tolkien studies.
2 / 100
(2.0%)
560 / 30,000
(1.0%)