The Book of Lost Tales, Part 1

J.R.R. Tolkien

Book 1 of The History of Middle-Earth

Language: English

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Published: Aug 15, 1984

Form: Collection
Pages: 481
Word Count: 137937

Description:

a collection of early stories by English writer J. R. R. Tolkien, published as the first two volumes of Christopher Tolkien's 12-volume series The History of Middle-earth, in which he presents and analyzes the manuscripts of those stories, which were the earliest form of the complex fictional myths that would eventually comprise The Silmarillion. Each of the Tales is followed by notes and a detailed commentary by Christopher Tolkien.