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The Fall of Numenor: and Other Tales - Tolkien John Ronald Reuel
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The Fall of Numenor: and Other Tales
Type : Books
SKU: VV1443039
ISBN: 9780008537838
Pages: 296
Cover: Hardcover
Year: 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins (HarperCollins)
Your Price: $158.75
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Краткая аннотация:
J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one volume. J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a ‘dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told’. And for many years readers would need to be content with the tantalizing glimpses of it found within the pages of The Lord of the Rings and its appendices, including the forging of the Rings of Power, the building of the Barad-dur and the rise of Sauron. It was not until Christopher Tolkien published The Silmarillion after his father’s death that a fuller story could be told. Although much of the book’s content concerned the First Age of Middle-earth, there were at its close two key works that revealed the tumultuous events concerning the rise and fall of the island of Numenor. Raised out of the Great Sea and gifted to the Men of Middle-earth as a reward for aiding the angelic Valar and the Elves in the defeat and capture of the Dark... |
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