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The return of the shadow: the history of the Lord of the Rings. Part one

✍ Scribed by Tolkien, Christopher;Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel


Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Year
2015
Tongue
English
Weight
1 MB
Series
The History of Middle-Earth, 6
Edition
Paperback edition
Category
Fiction
City
London
ISBN
0007348231

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✦ Synopsis


The first part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, an enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes and includes the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety. The Return of the Shadow is the story of the first part of the history of the creation of The Lord of the Rings, a fascinating study of Tolkien’s great masterpiece, from its inception to the end of the first volume, The Fellowship of the Ring. In The Return of the Shadow (the abandoned title of the first volume of The Lord of the Rings) we see how Bilbo’s magic ring evolved into the supremely dangerous Ruling Ring of the Dark Lord; and the precise, and astonishingly unforeseen, moment when a Black Rider first rode in to the Shire. The character of the hobbit called Trotter (afterwards Strider or Aragorn) is developed, and Frodo’s companions undergo many changes of name and personality. The book comes complete with reproductions of the first maps and facsimile pages from the earliest manuscripts.

✦ Subjects


Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism


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