Stunning three-volume slipcased set containing the most
comprehensive in-depth companion to Tolkien's life and works ever
published, including synopses of all his writings, and a Tolkien
gazetteer, who's who and chronology. The three volumes contained in
this slipcase, written by two of the foremost experts on J.R.R.
Tolkien, comprise the definitive handbook to one of the most
popular authors of the 20th century. Tolkien's progress is traced
from his birth in South Africa in 1892, to the battlefields of
France and the lecture-halls of Leeds and Oxford, to his success as
the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, until his death
in 1973. His many academic and literary achievements, his public
reception, and his enduring fame are examined in detail. The first
volume in this set is a Chronology of Tolkien's life and works, the
most extensive biographical resource about him ever published.
Thousands of details have been drawn from letters, contemporary
documents in libraries and archives, and a wide variety of other
published and unpublished sources. Assembled together, they form a
portrait of Tolkien in all his aspects: the distinguished scholar
of Old and Middle English, the capable teacher and administrator,
the devoted husband and father, the brilliant creator of
Middle-earth. The second and third volumes, the Reader's Guide, is
an indispensable introduction to Tolkien's life, writings, and art.
It includes histories and discussions of his works; analyses of the
components of his vast 'Silmarillion' mythology; brief biographies
of persons important in his life; accounts of places he knew;
essays on topics such as Tolkien's interests and attitudes towards
contemporary issues, ideas found in his works, adaptations, and
invented languages; and checklists of his published works, his
poetry, his pictorial art, and translations of his writing.
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