The History Of Middle-Earth, Part Three: Monumental Epic Fantasy – The Complete Lord of the Rings Creation in Four Volumes with Lost Stories and Rare Illustrations

This new hardcover edition brings together the final three volumes of The History of Middle-earth—Morgoth’s Ring,The War of the Jewels, and The Peoples of Middle-earth.J.R.R. Tolkien is famous the world over for his unique literary creation, exemplified in The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. What is less well known, however, is that he also produced a vast amount of further material that greatly expands upon the mythology and numerous stories of Middle-earth, and which gives added life to the thousand-year war between the Elves and the evil spirit Morgoth, and his terrifying lieutenant, Sauron. It was to this enormous task of literary construction that Tolkien’s youngest son and literary heir, Christopher, applied himself to produce the monumental and endlessly fascinating series of twelve volumes, The History of Middle-earth.   Read more