02633nam a22003377i 4500 20261016202636.0 261016s1994 xx ||||| |||||||| p|eng d 9780345388186 0345388186 (KOHALIB)isbn-9780345388186 KOHALIB eng rda KOHALIB Tolkien, J. R. R. The Lays of Beleriand / J. R. R. Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien. [Place of publication not identified] : Del Rey, 1994. 480 pages text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier This is the third volume of the History of Middle-earth, which comprises here-tofore unpublished manuscripts that were written over a period of many years before Tolkien's Simlarillion was published.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 The first of the poems in The Lays of Beleriand is the previously unpublished Lay of the Children of Hurin, his early but most sustained work in the ancient English meter, intended to narrate on a grand scale the tragedy of Turin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. Inventory: Single copy, entry 686; recorded quantity 1; damaged N/A Fantasy Poetry, English Poetry Middle Earth (Imaginary Place) English Fantasy Poetry Fiction, Science Fiction, General British and Irish Fiction (Fictional Works by One Author) Fiction, Fantasy, General Middle Earth (Imaginary Place), Fiction Tolkien, Christopher. BOOK 670 670 0 0 0 0 POETRY MAIN MAIN 2026-10-16 0 FIC TOL LIB02116 2026-10-16 20:26:36 2026-10-16 BOOK