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020 _a9780345388186
020 _a0345388186
035 _a(KOHALIB)isbn-9780345388186
040 _aKOHALIB
_beng
_erda
_cKOHALIB
100 1 _aTolkien, J. R. R.
245 1 4 _aThe Lays of Beleriand /
_cJ. R. R. Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien.
264 1 _a[Place of publication not identified] :
_bDel Rey,
_c1994.
300 _a480 pages
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
520 _aThis is the third volume of the History of Middle-earth, which comprises here-tofore unpublished manuscripts that were written over a period of many years before Tolkien's Simlarillion was published.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 The first of the poems in The Lays of Beleriand is the previously unpublished Lay of the Children of Hurin, his early but most sustained work in the ancient English meter, intended to narrate on a grand scale the tragedy of Turin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.
590 _aInventory: Single copy, entry 686; recorded quantity 1; damaged N/A
650 4 _aFantasy Poetry, English
650 4 _aPoetry
650 4 _aMiddle Earth (Imaginary Place)
650 4 _aEnglish Fantasy Poetry
650 4 _aFiction, Science Fiction, General
650 4 _aBritish and Irish Fiction (Fictional Works by One Author)
650 4 _aFiction, Fantasy, General
650 4 _aMiddle Earth (Imaginary Place), Fiction
700 1 _aTolkien, Christopher.
942 _cBOOK
999 _c670
_d670