02503nam a22003017i 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802000150007603500320009104000310012310000220015424500710017626400610024730000140030833600260032233700280034833800270037652014970040365000280190065000110192865000350193965000270197465000380200165000620203965000300210165000440213170000260217520261016202636.0261016s1994    xx ||||| |||||||| p|eng d  a9780345388186  a0345388186  a(KOHALIB)isbn-9780345388186  aKOHALIBbengerdacKOHALIB1 aTolkien, J. R. R.14aThe Lays of Beleriand /cJ. R. R. Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien. 1a[Place of publication not identified] :bDel Rey,c1994.  a480 pages  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aThis is the third volume of the History of Middle-earth, which comprises here-tofore unpublished manuscripts that were written over a period of many years before Tolkien's Simlarillion was published. Volumes 1 and 2 were the Book of Lost Tales, Part One and The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two. Together, these volumes encompass an extraordinarily extensive body of material ornamenting and buttressing what must be the most fully realized world ever to spring from a single author's imagination. "I write alliterative verse with pleasure," wrote J.R.R. Tolkien in 1955, "though I have published little beyond the fragments in The Lord of the Rings, except The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth." The first of the poems in The Lays of Beleriand is the previously unpublished Lay of the Children of Hurin, his early but most sustained work in the ancient English meter, intended to narrate on a grand scale the tragedy of Turin Turambar. It was account of the killing by Turin of his friend Beleg, as well as a unique description of the great redoubt of Nargothrond. The Lay of the Children of Hurin was supplanted by the Lay of Leithian, "Release from Bondage", in which another major legend of the Elder Days received poetic form, in this case in rhyme. The chief source of the short prose tale of Beren and Luthien is The Silmarillion. This, too, was not completed, but the whole Quest of the Silmaril is told, and the poem breaks off only after the encounter with Morgoth in his subterranean fortress. 4aFantasy Poetry, English 4aPoetry 4aMiddle Earth (Imaginary Place) 4aEnglish Fantasy Poetry 4aFiction, Science Fiction, General 4aBritish and Irish Fiction (Fictional Works by One Author) 4aFiction, Fantasy, General 4aMiddle Earth (Imaginary Place), Fiction1 aTolkien, Christopher.