The Complete Guide to Middle-Earth: Tolkien's World from A to Z - Hardcover

Foster, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345465296 ISBN 13: 9780345465290

Publisher: Del Rey, 2003

Synopsis

Highlighted by a new four-color map of Middle-earth, a literary guide to the fantasy works of J. R. R. Tolkien lists every character, event, and place in all of Tolkien's books set in Middle-earth, incorporating detailed references to The Silmarillion, which the author considered his most important work, as well as The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

About this title

Review:

‘Middle-earth is the country of J.R.R. Tolkien’s tales – the territory of Sauron, Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf and Sam Gamgee – whose legends, history, geography and inhabitants combine to make a unique fictional world. This Guide is a comprehensive reference work to every name and event in Tolkien’s books, from The Hobbit to The Silmarillion.’
Daily Telegraph

‘Mr Robert Foster’s Complete Guide to Middle-earth supplies, as I have found through frequent use, an admirable work of reference.’
CHRISTOPHER TOLKIEN

About the Author:

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa. After serving in the First World War, he embarked upon a distinguished academic career and was recognized as one of the finest philologists in the world. He was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke College, and a fellow of Merton College until his retirement in 1959. He is, however, beloved throughout the world as the creator of Middle-earth and author of such classic works as The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He died on September 2, 1973, at the age of 81.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Del Rey
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0345465296
• ISBN 13: 9780345465290
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 592